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Come September, the campuses of America
will be swarming not just with returning undergraduates, but also with employers
set on signing up the most able 10% of them. "We are seeing a far more
competitive market for talent," says Steve Canale, a recruitment manager at
General Electric (GE). Students who recently could have expected two or three
offers in their final year are now getting as many as five. To gain a
competitive edge, firms are arriving ever earlier on campus with their
recruitment caravans. They also start to look at (and select) summer interns
more as potential full-time empl6yees than as mere seasonal extra hands: 60% of
GE's graduate recruits in America this year, for instance, will come from its
crop of more than 2,000 interns. Many interns will have employment contracts in
their pockets before they even return for their final year of study.
Firms are working harder to polish their image in the eyes of
undergraduates. Some have staff who do little but tour campuses throughout the
year, keeping the firm's name in front of both faculty and students, and
promoting their "employer brand". GE focuses on 38 universities where it
actively promotes itself as an employer. Pricewaterhousecoopers (PWC), an
accounting firm, targets 200 universalities and gives a partner responsibility
for each. PWC says that each of its partners spends up to 200 hours a year"
building relationships on campus". That particular investment
seems to have paid off. Each year Universum, an employer-branding consultant,
asks some 30,000 American students to name their ideal employer. In this year's
survey, published recently, PWC came second (up from 4th in 2004), topped only
by BWM. Yet the German carmaker, which knocked Microsoft off the top spot,
steers clear of campuses, relying for its popularity, says Universum, on the
"coolness" of its products. Students, it seems, are heavily
influenced in their choice of ideal employer by their perception of that
employer's products and services. Soaring up this year's list were Apple
Computer (from 41st to 13th) and the Federal Bureau of Investment (from 138th to
10th). The success of Apple's cool iPod has had a powerful effect in the firm's
ability to recruit top undergraduates. Likewise, the positive portrayal of the
FBI in some recent films and TV shows has allegedly helped with
recruitment. The accounting firms say that the fall of Enron and
Arthur Andersen has done their recruitment no harm: instead, they claim, it has
made students realize that accounting is not mere number crunching, but also
involves moral judgments. The "Big Four" accounting firms are all among this
year's top 15 ideal employers. Undergraduates now do much of
their research into future employments online. There seems to be a close
correlation between their choice of ideal employer and their choice of most
impressive website--where PWC, Microsoft and Ernst & Young win gold, silver
and bronze respectively. Even so, some famous firms think they
still appreciate the personal touch, and are sending their most senior
executives to campuses to meet students and to give speeches. "The top attracts
top," says, Claudia Tattanelli, boss of Universum in America. Jeffrey Immelt,
GE's chief executive, is a keen on-campus speaker and has visited six leading
universities in the past year. In the process, he may have shaken hands with one
of his successors.
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单选题Tradition, habit, education, inherited ______, native caution, all joined to form a solid professional honesty. A. aptitude B. altitude C. attitude D. latitude
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单选题She ______ always ______ about her husband whenever she meets someone. A. has...complained B. had...complained C. is...complaining D. was...complaining
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A. Much though
B. Though much
C. Much as
D. As much
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单选题"Sucking out evil" is______.
单选题According to the author, who knows that the film is objectionable but does not tell?
单选题Questions 11 to 13 are based ore the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the passage.
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