Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Nearly eighteen months ago, on the campus of Princeton University, the women’s basketball team’s prized recruit was having second thoughts.“A little bit into my first semester, I realized I was unhappy,” recalls Emma Markley, Harvard freshman and former Princeton student. “Maybe it was the first time going to college, being away from home, but it’s something that a lot of people go through. I can’t tell you why it was, but I knew that I wanted to come...
...It’s not so much about getting jobs right away but creating connections over time,” she adds. Harvardwood 101 selects twenty-four students to bring to Los Angeles over intersession, introducing them to members of the Harvardwood network. According to Riverton, these programs recruit in coordination with the OCS. But with Harvardwood Career Counselors, a program that coordinates interviews between students and members from their desired fields, she hopes that “maybe [Harvardwood will bring] something that the OCS doesn’t provide.”With the help of funds from...
...Kerry campaign, meanwhile, hired one junior staff aide with no national campaign experience to oversee religious outreach and allowed her one intern - the two had a single telephone between them with which to recruit and contact volunteers...
...town hall, Rice, says a close adviser, was even more determined to make sure the department had the right people serving in the most difficult places. "We are trying to do things, quite literally, that have never been done before," Rice told the audience at Georgetown. "America must recruit and train a new generation of foreign service professionals with new expectations of what life a diplomat must...
...schools and their faculty members accountable as never before for student learning, the nation faces a shortage of teaching talent. About 3.2 million people teach in U.S. public schools, but, according to projections by economist William Hussar at the National Center for Education Statistics, the nation will need to recruit an additional 2.8 million over the next eight years owing to baby-boomer retirement, growing student enrollment and staff turnover-which is especially rapid among new teachers. Finding and keeping high-quality teachers are key to America's competitiveness as a nation. Recent test results show that U.S. 10th-graders...