We believe in making it easy for our employer partners to recruit at Colby College by:
- Collaborating with Bates and Bowdoin to give you the largest possible audience of talented and engaged students in a single evening
- Building your talent brand on our campuses through co-promotion with student clubs, faculty, coaches, class deans, and other campus partners
- Designing bespoke events tailored for the students you’d most like to attract
Why hire Colby talent?
Colby College students are…
- High-achieving (9% admitted, average SATs of 1500, 90% in the top 10% of their high school class)
- Diverse (30% of students identify as domestic persons of color, 10% are non-U.S. citizens)
- Intellectually curious (our students can choose from 56 majors and 35 minors, with 43% choosing two majors)
- Experienced (Over 70% of the last three graduating classes have at least two internship, research, or global experiences before graduation)
- Active (more than one in three students play a DIII varsity sport, Colby supports more than 100 student clubs, the Outing Club has more than 300 students)
- Civically engaged (there are 70 active Waterville area community partners and an average of 800 students a year participate in civic engagement opportunities)
- A source of tech talent (we have five interdisciplinary computation majors and a data science minor; 35% of computer science majors are women)
Ways to engage:
We work closely with our employer partners to ensure that they meet their recruiting objectives.
As a Colby recruiting partner, employers can:
- Post an opportunity on Handshake— – or we can do it for you
- Join our signature, multi-employer recruiting events
- Host your own recruiting events
- Sponsor co-curricular projects, case competitions, hackathons, data fests, or micro-internships
- Host career treks