I write about business, finance and technology in the K-12 and higher education sectors. Prior to joining Forbes, I worked at Inside Higher Ed as a business and governance reporter, and before that I worked as a digital producer for Politico. I graduated from St. Olaf College in 2018 with a degree in political science.
Johns Hopkins University has always been well-regarded, but more and more employers are turning to the university to recruit top talent these days.Covid, technology, and a changing workforce have led employers to cast a wider net for collegiate talent, even as they sour on Ivy League grads.iring managers have long used the reputation of a new college graduate’s alma mater as an indicator of an applicant’s ability and expected job performance.
“There was a notion that the reputation of the school was a proxy for the type of talent you might get,” observes Christine Cruzvergara, who served until early 2019 as associate provost and executive director of career education at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, one of the “Seven Sisters”—elite schools for women established when most of the Ivy League excluded them.
But both Cruzvergara and employers have moved into a new phase. She’s now chief education strategy officer at Handshake, the online job board Teams and Zoom or whatever,’’ Downs says. “For the future, we’ll always see a hybrid opportunity to engage.”
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