Companies Recruiting at Olin B School

Colleges and Universities A-Z Washington University in St. Louis
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<p>Someone (not gonna name you) keeps posting that big time companies do not recruit on campus at Wash U. So I went to the Olin web site and pulled their calendar for this school year. Below are the companies holding sessions or intgerviews on campus (or nearby). If a company is listed more than once, it is because they visited more than once.</p>

<p>3M Corporation
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Accenture
Aegon Insurance Group
Alvarez & Marsal Business Consulting, LLC
Ameren Energy
Ameren Energy
Analysis Group
Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
AT&T
Bain & Company
Bain & Company
Bain & Company
Balyasny Asset Management (BAM)
Bank of America
BASES, The Nielsen Company
BASES, The Nielsen Company
Baylor, College of Medicine
Best Buy
Best Buy
Bloomingdale's
Bloomingdales/Macy's
Booz-Allen
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Boston Scientific
Brown Shoe
Capital One
Capital One
Capital One
CIBC World Markets
Citi
Citi
Citi, Inc.
Commerce Bank
ConAgra Foods, Inc.
ConAgra Foods, Inc.
Conagra Foods, Inc.
Conley & Associates
Conley & Company
Cooper Industries
Cooper Industries
Cooper Industries
Cooper Industries
D.E. Shaw & Company
Deloitte Consulting
Development Strategies, Inc.
ECG Management Consultants
Edward Jones
Edward Jones
Edward Jones
Edward Jones
Edward Jones
Emerson
Emerson
Epic Systems
Epic Systems
Epic Systems Corporation
Ernst & Young
Essilor
Exeter
ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil
Federal Reserve Bank STL
First National Bank of Omaha
First National Bank of Omaha
Frito-Lay
Frito-Lay
General Electric
General Electric
General Mills - finance intern
General Mills (finance)
General Mills (promotion intern)
General Mills (Promotions)
General Mills, Inc.
General Mills, Inc.
General Mills, Inc.
Goldman Sachs
Google
Google
Hawker Beechcraft Corp.
Hawker Beechcraft Corp.
Humana
Humana
Humana
INROADS
International Paper
International Paper
Janssen Ortho-McNeil
Johnson & Johnson International
Johnson & Johnson Int'l
JP Morgan
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.
Koch Industries (Business Dev)
Koch Industries (Commercial Trainee)
KPMG
Lancaster Pollard & Co.
Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers
M3 Capital Partners
Macy's Midwest
Macy's Midwest
MasterCard Worldwide
MB Financial Bank
McCormack Baron Salazar
McMaster Carr
Mercer
Mercer
Monsanto
Morgan Keegan
Morgan Stanley
Morningstar, Inc.
Motorola
National City
National City
Navigant Consulting
NERA Economic Consulting
Nestle Purina Pet Care Company
Noble International
Northwestern Investment Management Co.
Peabody Energy
Perficient
Perficient
Progressive Insurance
Protiviti
Quad Graphics
Raymond James
RBC Capital Markets
RBC Capital Markets
Renaissance Financial
Robert W. Baird and Company Inc.
Sonoma Partners
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO)
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO)
SRC Holdings Corporation
SRC Holdings Corporation
Steve & Barry's
Steve & Barry's Sortswear
Stifel Nicolaus
Stifel Nicolaus
Stifel Nicolaus
Target
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Tata Consulting Services (TCS)
United Airlines
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Western-Southern
Western-Southern Financial Group
Yahoo
Yahoo
Yahoo!</p>

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<p>Drop Citi from that list; I don’t think it would do recruiting for a long time :(</p>

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<p>by cc standard, active recruiting means holding interviews. listing the ones that hold campus interview is a better way to prove them wrong.</p>

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<p>You can't forget the companies listed only in the main career center's list, as well.</p>

<p>Anyway, most of these companies have held on campus interviews, info sessions, attended a career fair, or actively recruited through resume drops (where students have actually gotten jobs/internships) over the past 2 years.</p>

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<p>75% to 80% of these were interviews, not just info sessions. I did not distinguish what level they were seeking (i.e. undergrad or MBA). But even an on site info session is a very big deal. Some companies do not like to interview on campus very much, simply because they get such inconsistent feedback. I know from personal experience that the task of going to the campus interviews is often passed around, and it is very hard to compare between the different sessions. Some companies prefer to hold info sessions, and route the actial interviews through a more formal process.</p>

<p>The bottom line is that the top companies in the US (and elsewhere) are interviewing at a relatively small B school for a reason.</p>

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<p>Thanks for taking the time to post this valuable information HartinGA. A Cornell prof once told me the two most important aspects of a school are the quality of the students going in and where they go when they get out and that the two go hand in hand. Wash U is the 6th most selective school in the US News survey (something the school is careful to note in a one page handout in the career center aimed at recruiting companies - 95% of students from the top 10% of the class; SAT's higher than Stanford's) so it only makes sense the best companies are headed there. There is a guy in my office whose wife works at DE Shaw, a large hedge fund that is also at work on a cutting edge drug discovery program. His wife, a scientist, has a Phd from Oxford, works in the drug discovery side of the business and claims David Shaw (the billionaire hedge fund manager) scours the globe for the best and brightest students - 800 SAT's and the like. I was happy to tell my colleague that his wife's company is on Wash U's schedule.</p>

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<p>You may want to check out the business school career center's annual report, actually.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.olin.wustl.edu/wcc/pdf/AnnualReportBSBA.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.olin.wustl.edu/wcc/pdf/AnnualReportBSBA.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Here's an excerpt:

[quote]
Top Employers
BSBA Class of 2006
Listed in alphabetical order
A.G. Edwards and Sons Inc.
Banc of America Securities, LLC
CIBC World Markets Corp.
Deloitte Consulting
Edward Jones
Epic Systems Corporation
Ernst & Young LLP
General Mills, Inc.
Goldman Sachs
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Teach for America

[/quote]
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<p>With AG Edwards, Banc of America, CIBC, Deloitte, Edward Jones, EY, Goldman, JP Morgan, and PWC all on the top employers list, I don't think there's anything to worry about. Olin just hit Yahoo's top tier school list for their operations finance recruiting last year, so hopefully that will send a strong message to other companies looking for finance recruits, as well.</p>