The Center for Career Education seeks both to partner with employers to maximize recruiting results and assist students in making informed career decisions. To accomplish this goal, we have developed student and employer policies to ensure the process be fair for all employer and student participants. Booking an on or off campus event with the Columbia University Center for Career Education indicates your agreement to abide by these policies and procedures.

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Employment Offer Dates and Acceptance Policy

Cancellations and Rescheduling
Alcohol is prohibited in the Employment Recruiting Process.
Third-part Agencies
Commission-Based Sales Positions
Rescinding or Deferring Employment

NACE Principles for Professional Conduct

Discrimination and Harassment Policy

Employment Offer Dates and Acceptance Policy

In order to provide students with sufficient time to complete their employment search and make informed decisions, employers must abide by the following deadlines outlined below. The consequences for not following these policies could be detrimental for our students and will result in employers removal from CCE's Recruiting Program.

If you did not recruit via InterviewTRAK

Students have two weeks from date of the offer to make a decision.

If you recruit via InterviewTRAK

Students will have two weeks from the date the offer is extended or until the deadlines below, whichever is later.

• For full-time offers extended to previous summer interns, students have until November 14, 2008 to make a decision.
• Students interviewed during the Fall semester have until November 28, 2008 to make a decision.
• For internship offers extended to previous summer interns, students have until February 27, 2009 to make a decision.
• Students interviewed during the Spring semester have until March 13, 2009 to make a decision.

Please note that the time periods above start at the receipt of a written offer for employment to the student.

Exploding offers and special incentives such as diminishing bonuses and location preference should are not tolerated. Sign-on bonuses should be honored whenever the student accepts the offer.

Failure to abide by this principle will place the employer in violation of the stated policy. Employers not following the policy can be barred from recruiting at Columbia.

Cancellations and Rescheduling

If you need to cancel or reschedule your on-campus interviews, please notify the Center for Career Education as soon as possible. You will be charged for canceling on-campus interviews, if you cancel them within thirty days of your interview date. If you need to reschedule your on-campus interviews, we will do our best to accommodate your request.

Alcohol is prohibited in the Employment Recruiting Process.

As a member of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), Columbia also abides by the Principles for Professional Conduct. The Principles document explains why serving alcohol to job candidates is inappropriate and inadvisable. The principle states, "Serving alcohol should not be part of the recruitment process." Open bars, paid bars, and holding recruiting events in a bar are all inappropriate. Failure to abide by this principle will place the employer in violation of the stated policy. Employers not following the policy can be barred from recruiting at Columbia. Recruiter's names can also be brought to the attention of their superiors and the company can be shared within the NACE community as not following this guideline, endangering students and having been barred from Columbia. For further information, please read the Principles for Professional Conduct document in its entirety.

Third-party Agencies

Third party agencies can only post positions with the Center for Career Education for the students and alumni we serve if:

• They are actively recruiting for a bona fide employment opportunity that is appropriate for the skill sets and experience of the students and alumni served by the Center for Career Education on behalf of an employer AND
• They reveal the name of the employer that is ultimately hiring for the position.

The Center for Career Education reserves the right to make a determination of the appropriateness of the positions being offered for the populations it serves.

Commission-Based Sales Positions

Employers offering positions that provide compensation that is 100% commission based can offer these positions under the following conditions:

• The position is for full time employment AND
• The compensation is clearly disclosed in the position description AND
• The position is posted on MonsterTRAK and/or relevant alumni job boards.

Employers offering these positions are ineligible for the following programs:

• Career Fairs
• Internship recruiting of any type
• On campus recruiting or resume collections.

Rescinding or Deferring Employment

Employers needing to rescind or defer employment should carefully review the guidelines and follow the NACE recommendations issued in 2002 in their Position Statement on Rescinded and Deferred Employment Offers.

The NACE guidelines urge employers to adopt a two-part approach to employment offers under consideration for revocation. The first emphasizes the need for a commitment to high standards in recruiting. The second offers a reasoned approach to dealing with rescinded and deferred offers.

NACE recommends that employers who must revoke a commitment to do everything possible to avoid rescinding offers, to consider alternatives that do not require rescinding employment offers. These may include changes in job responsibilities, salary reduction and/or reduced workweeks, changes in job locale, delayed starting dates, and other reasonable options.

For candidates whose start dates are deferred:

• Provide services to aid the candidates in securing other employment.
• Provide financial assistance if the deferral will be longer than three months.
• Communicate to candidates as soon as possible.
• Contact the Career Center.

Stay in communication with candidates and the Career Center regarding start dates.

The Center for Career Education expects all employers to treat candidates in an ethical manner. We reserve the right to deny access to on-campus recruiting to any employers who we determine have not conducted their recruiting efforts ethically.

NACE Principles for Professional Conduct

All employment professionals participating in our recruiting program are required to work within a framework of professionally accepted recruiting, interviewing and selection techniques as stipulated in the NACE Principles for Professional Conduct.

Discrimination and Harassment Policy

Columbia University is committed to providing a working and learning environment free from unlawful discrimination and harassment. Consistent with this commitment and with applicable federal, state and local laws, it is the policy of the University as both an educational institution and an employer to prohibit unlawful discrimination and harassment and to provide faculty, students, and staff who believe that they may be the victims of either with mechanisms for seeking redress.

We recommend that all students, alumni, vendors, and employers engaged in activities with the Center for Career Education review Columbia’s Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedure.

If a student or staff member engaged in an activity sponsored by The Center for Career Education (including but not limited to job listings, workshops, panels, counseling sessions, employer presentations, career fairs, interviews, mentoring, internships, off campus recruiting, and employment) believes that the Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedure may have been violated, he or she is urged to contact the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action, a member of the Columbia University Panel on Discrimination and Sexual Harassment, or the Director of Employer and Alumni Relations for The Center for Career Education. If the conduct complained of involves a person or persons within the Columbia community, the actions provided for under the Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedure may apply. If the conduct complained of involves, in addition to a member of the Columbia community, a party or parties outside the Columbia community, the Center for Career Education may conduct an inquiry. In the event The Center for Career Education determines that the complained-of conduct occurred or the outside party chooses not to participate in the inquiry, The Center for Career Education may act to sever the relationship between The Center for Career Education and/or Columbia University and the outside party or organization.