>> My name is Michael Parkson, I am the East Central Region Area Director
of Campus Recruiting for EY, formerly Ernst & Young.
And I'm based in McLean Virginia just West of Washington D.C. We're
in the middle of it right now in the fall.
So my typical day, it could be ranging from going on to a collage campus meeting
with students which are very interested in talking to us.
Meeting with faculty, sometimes deans of business schools and other collages on campus.
Every now and then I have the great opportunity to meeting the University President
which is really exciting in my eyes.
I work with a team of 15 wonderful recruiters in my region.
A broader team of really solid HR professionals.
And then also an extended team
of campus recruiters nationally and throughout the Americas.
In terms of what I do, it could be ranging from presenting on campus.
It could be even instructing a class, you'll be invited in to teach a class.
You know, more importantly I want to make sure
that the recruits are getting really accurate information about our firm.
So they can make wise decisions about whether it's a firm they want to come to.
And hopefully have a fantastic opportunity.
We basically, every year will get handed our hiring goals.
So we look to hire full time students.
Students as interns both for the summer and winter which is great.
We also recruit students to our leadership programs which are essentially a year prior--
six months to a year prior to an internship.
So each of our major service lines in--
at EY, we have insurance, tax advisory and transactions.
They give us their hiring goals for the various markets where we operate.
Within my region, we recruit for about 12 different markets.
Expanding from Ohio to Pennsylvania down to Virginia, Maryland,
D.C. and as far west as Kentucky.
And we, you know, what we try to do is achieve all these hiring goals.
The major markets you tend to hire for are the big three what I call in our region
which is the audit, tax and advisory practices.
Some of the smaller cities you know, may only recruit for audit or tax.
But I would say, you know, most have some sort of advisory tax and definitely all the goals
that we recruit for plus full time and interns.