Oh, the career fairs are a given in my opinion. I was actually going further than that and saying that some firms may even be holding on-campus interviews without actual positions available.

Again, I don't have any proof of that fact, but I have encountered it in the corporate world before. I've even had interviewers tell me they were just interviewing me for future reference without an actual job in mind for me, but these were not on-campus interviews and had nothing to do with campus recruiting. I just wondered if it might extend to campus recruiting, too.

Driftwood wrote: By the way Donald, you mentioned you take online classes from a school in Washington. Can you not use that school's career website to look for on-campus jobs, particularly if you plan to maybe move there someday anyway? Obviously, that would present problems when you get ready to interview, as you're currently on the other side of the country, but I just wondered if your school even had an actual campus, and especially with a good career center, which has regular visits from larger firms.

I'm enrolled in Washington State University, which has just as much of a campus as Harvard and Princeton do.  In fact, according to the literautre put out by the accounting department ( http://www.business.wsu.edu/academics/Accounting/Documents/f actsheet.pdf ), their graduates have accepted jobs at the Big 4 and the regional firms.  So I am conviced they are a reputale school.  Even though I am willing to move to WA, I only want to do so if it is for a full time, perment position.