“I want my company to hire Hawkeyes” is a persistent request we field from alumni like Curtis Reed (BBA95), region manager and managing director at JPMorgan Chase in Chicago. The Tippie College of Business has a new front door for companies that want to connect with Tippie students: the Strategic Partnerships Office.

 

Looking for Hawkeyes? Follow this route:

REACH OUT

Your first point of contact is David Ernst, executive director of strategic partnerships. Ernst is deeply knowledgeable about the college and can best guide your company on how to connect with your ideal students.

PICK YOUR PARTNERSHIP LEVEL
The college offers three corporate sponsorship levels, depending on the needs of your company. The sponsorship fees directly support Tippie Career Services.

MAKE A RECRUITMENT TRIP
All sponsorship levels provide a streamlined campus visit process with career opportunities highlighted in targeted student  communication, high foot traffic tabling, and company logo recognition near Pat's Diner, the college café.

CONNECT WITH STUDENTS
The college can also coordinate with faculty to give company representatives—or even better, alumni—entrée to speak in classes targeted to the kind of students they want for specific internship and/or full-time opportunities.

HOST A STUDENT ORGANIZATION PROFESSIONAL TRIP
Connections facilitated with student organizations during campus visits often turn into those organizations later visiting the company’s
offices.

ENGAGE WITH TIPPIE LEADERSHIP
Top-level sponsors have focused opportunities to advise the college’s continuously evolving professional development and career readiness programming.

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Highly publicized employer days are available to top-level sponsors and feature multiple classroom engagements and targeted posts on the college’s social media platforms. Andrew Stoefen (BBA20) and Tianying Liu (BBA19) at HNI took over @TippieCollege on Instagram to showcase the career opportunities HNI has given them.

HIRE YOUR HAWKEYES
Your workplace just got a lot more black and gold.

 

THE BOTTOM LINE

The Tippie Strategic Partnerships Office is the front door to businesses and government agencies that need customized executive education, corporate sponsored research, student projects, and a pipeline to hire Hawkeyes. tippie.uiowa.edu/businesses

 

 

This story appeared in the Fall 2023 issue of Tippie Magazine.