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Coronavirus Pushes Job Interviews for College Students Online
- PwC shifts to calls, video meetings for those offered jobs
- Career center at Rochester advises to avoid shaking hands
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The coronavirus is changing job recruiting at U.S. colleges, as travel bans force some employers to scrap in-person campus interviews for virtual ones and students adjust to new networking norms.
Intel Corp. isn’t participating in external recruiting events. Amazon.com Inc. is shifting some on-site interviews to a virtual format. Accounting giant PwC is converting in-person office visits to videoconferencing and phone calls for about 1,000 undergraduates with offers to work there, mostly in summer jobs.
“Bringing large volumes of students to offices, requiring them to travel -- we didn’t feel that was the right thing to do,” said Rod Adams, who oversees PwC’s recruiting in the U.S. and Mexico.