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Midstate University Business Placement Office

Over a period of years, the Midstate University Business Placement office has developed and refined a computerized bidding system for students wishing to participate in on campus job interviews with prospective employers. This system allows more that 15,000 on campus interviews to be scheduled each year involving more that 1,700 students and more than 500 employers. The key to the successful operation of this system is automation. Several 'choke points' have been eliminated based on the design of the BPO software.

One potential problem is that a particularly attractive employer could become overwhelmed with request for on campus interviews. This problem is addressed in several ways by the software in use. For example, the software knows how many interviews can be scheduled during the time that the company's representatives will be on campus.

Another potential bottleneck involves the times that students are available to interview. Once again, Midstate University uses sophisticalted computer modeling to determine what is the maximum number of students that a given company can see while they are on campus based on their students' availability.

Another issue that has been addressed through the software in use at the Business Placement Office is the possibility that some students would want to interview with as many potential employers as possible -- even employers they had little or no interest in working for. To address this problem, students are required to specify which customers they are most interested in meeting with, which are of secondary interest, and which they might want to meet with if time permits. Each student as a limited number of potential employers that can be designated as of primary or secondary interest. The BPO software uses these student priorities to ensure that the students expressing the most interst in meeting with a particular employer during on campus interviews has the greatest chance of b...

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