MIT Sloan Recruiting Policies
Our recruiting policies are designed to ensure that our students are able to balance academics with recruiting. We also require that both our employers and students have enough time and information to make thoughtful and informed decisions.
Recruiting Information Regarding 1st-Year MBA Students (Class of 2011)
The policies below allow 1st-year MBA students time to adjust to the academic experience during their first semester at MIT Sloan. It also allows them to participate in our customized career programming aimed at self-assessment and career exploration.
- MIT Sloan welcomes firms to campus when company presentations for summer internship recruiting begin on October 1, 2009. We will not endorse or advertise any recruiting events held before this date, including pre-matriculation events.
- Company recruiting presentations, job opportunities and office hours must be arranged and promoted only through the MIT Sloan Career Development Office (CDO). All presentation and job opportunity advertisements, as well as requests for office hours should be sent to your industry's point person (please see breakdown of recruiting services team at the end of these policies).
- Resumes for 1st-year MBA students may not be requested before November 2, 2009 for any purpose, including informational interviews, company visits or office hours.
- Employers may not request or solicit access to student mailing lists, list serve information, or the MIT Sloan student face book.
- Office hours/informational sessions must be held in a group format (two or more students) until summer internship recruiting begins on January 11, 2010.
- Conducting interviews or extending offers is not allowed before summer internship recruiting begins on January 11, 2010.
Club Events during the Fall Semester
During the fall semester, club events must be educational in nature and may not be recruiting-focused. Suggested topics include speakers from your firm who can talk about industry trends, company projects or share other intellectual capital.
- Club events must be arranged through the CDO. Events may not be scheduled directly with club leaders during the fall semester.
- To schedule a club event:
- Send proposed event information (topic, speaker, potential dates) to your industry's point person (see below).
- The CDO will approve your topic and check your proposed dates to ensure it does not conflict with previously scheduled events.
- After CDO approval, your request will be forwarded to the club for final approval. Club officers will determine if the event fits into their fall schedule of educational activities.
- If the event is approved, your firm may work directly with club leaders to coordinate logistics and promote the event to their club members.
Scheduling and Conducting Interviews
- All interviews must be scheduled around student class commitments. Please do not request students that miss a class or an examination for interviews or company visits. We request that firms give students at least 24-hours notice, and preferably 48-hours, when extending interview invitations. We also ask that you give students several options for dates and times for 2nd-round interviews. These practices help students manage potential academic conflicts more effectively.
- For summer internship recruiting only: We require at least one schedule be an Open for Bid Schedule if your company has more than one interview schedule per job opportunity.
Timing of Offers
- Students should be kept abreast of the status of their candidacy after each round of interviews. We require firms to directly communicate both affirmative and negative decisions within a reasonable timeframe.
- Please allow sufficient time for students to consider offers. We require firms to give full-time offerees until January 15, 2010, and summer intern offerees until February 12, 2010, to consider offers — or 15 business days from the date of the offer, whichever is later. Full-time offers to summer 2009 interns must be held open until December 11, 2009 — or 15 business days from the date of the offer, whichever is later.
If your organization has difficulty negotiating terms or faces other challenges involving our policies or practices, please call Jackie Wilbur, Director of the Career Development Office, at 617-258-6492 or Tiffany Hogan, Associate Director, at 617-253-0529.
Honoring Offers and Acceptances
We expect that all offers and acceptances be made in good faith. Students are obliged to honor accepted offers. Reneging on an acceptance is a breach of MIT Sloan's Student Recruiting Policies. If a student reneges on an offer, the recruiter should notify Jackie Wilbur at 617-258-6492, as soon as possible. We will review the situation and follow up on your behalf.
If an employer withdraws an offer that has been extended and accepted, the recruiting contact should notify Jackie Wilbur at 617-258-6492 or Tiffany Hogan at 617-253-0529, as soon as possible.
Nondiscrimination
We require recruiters to comply with MIT's policy of evaluating candidates without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin.
Contact Information for 2009 — 2010 MIT Sloan CDO Recruiting Services Team
Tiffany Hogan, thogan@mit.edu/ 617-253-0529
Associate Director
Oversees Recruiting Services; manages Recruiting Policies; corporate relations; employment statistics
Kerri Paris, kparis@mit.edu/ 617-253-8944
Assistant Director
Recruiting Scheduling and Logistics for the following firms: banks/diversified financial firms, high technology and biotechnology, pharma/healthcare, oil/energy, telecommunications
Susan Kenney, skenney@mit.edu/ 617-258-6493
Assistant Director
Recruiting Scheduling and Logistics for the following firms: consulting, consumer products, non-profit, retail, real estate, transportation/defense, automotive/aerospace, entertainment/media
© 2009 MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT