10/18   My company wants to have a recruiting event on campus, but we're
        worried we'll look desperate if we have a raffle for a palm pilot
        or a playstation 2, or something.  What are most companies doing
        these days that's not lame? --been out for a few years
        \_ Good recruiters have a mix of cute (friendly-acting) girls, and
           guys who can pull off back-slapping, I-was-there-I'm-your-friend
           shows.  Break down distrust, all that.  Do it in a professional-
           looking location, followed up by free drinks/food in a decent
           bar or lounge you've rented.  Especially for young, relatively
           inexperienced tech types, there are really proven manipulation
           techniques.  -John
           \_ cute asian girls please! - desparately seeking a date
              \_ tough shit, white boy.
                   \_ I'm asian looking for an asian chick (perferably
                      one like they have on my favorite animes)
                \_ Asian chicks?  Keep em.  sheesh.
                   |- I woud like 1 plz.  Where can i line up ...? -ugly enginr
                      \_ aww man, bring on the stanford whitey cuties
                         instead (see above post)
           get a bunch of luser who just want to win some free stuff.
                         \_ They aren't all that cute, and they are
                            high maintenance. Asian chicks can learn
                            to be low maintenance if you treat them
                            badly enough.
        \_ WINNING STRATEGY: always get cute HR and marketting gals to
           \_ i am a cynical grad student years from graduation who likes
              to get free pens, trinkets, and pizza, and you will *never*
              be able to distinguish me from a bright eyed, bushy tailed
              senior cs major looking to work 80 hours a week.  hahahahahaha!
              hahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!
           recruit. Fuck this nice place nice people crap. Ugly desperate
           engineers need chick. Period.
              \_ Must be cute asian chicks. The traffic to our booth
                 increased considerably once our cute asian chicks from
                 hr/marketing showed up.
                 \_ Yeah and you want to work at a company with people so
                    stupid, they'd sign up thinking they'll get laid with one
                    or more of the hot chicks at the recruiting session.
           \_ To this day I am impressed by JP Morgan because of the
              attractive women in short skirts (who claimed to be real
              employees and not recruiters per se) they flew out from NYC.
           \_ Amen.  Most Cal engineer's monetary needs = met.  Sexual
              needs = unmet.  (I speak for myself mostly)
              \_ Monetary needs = met -> sexual needs = met.  You can purchase
                 high quality sex.  It doesn't have to be a sleazy explicit
                 hooker either.  You can date with your wallet.
                 \_ how do you date with your wallet? EXPLAIN.
                    \_ Look for gold diggers. Cal is full of them.
                 \_ I agree. Gold diggers are easy to come by. Just make
                    sure you don't fall in love (they won't make that mistake).
                    And in case you decided to get married, please create a
                    irrevokable trust and get a prenup. We have enough homeless
                    as it is.
                        \_ Too late for some CSUAers....  RIP.
        \_ Trilogy threw a party at Blake's with free beer for minors. And
           they're planning on getting a busload of people down to
           Dave&Buster's next week. Be Like Them.
           \_ What does Trilogy make goddamit?
              \_ Folks in Austin call Trilogy 'Cult on a hill.'  Trilogy is
                 evil.  Think about how boring their products must be, and how
                 hard they must work new hires if they have such a large scale
                 geek courting campaign in place.
                 \_ I know two guys who went there straight out of school...
                    They said after the first six weeks, it isn't so bad...
                    And the first six weeks aren't more work than big
                    cs16[249] projects.
              \_ uh ... free beer?
                 \_ yea. free beer. why?
        \_ Hire female strippers and give lap dances
           \_ yes, I agree
           \_ You mean, make the strippers give lap dances.
        \_ Be a lame company which does dumb and destructive things with
           patents and face the Wrath of Nick outside the Woz.
           \_ Things like what?
              \_ RAMBUS
                 \_ What did Nick do to RAMBUS?
        \_ Only a PP or PS2? Try raffling 2 or 3 laptops or Trips for Two
           to Paris
                \_ Go for TiVo's or ReplayTV's - no one needs them more than
                    CS students with evening midterms and all-night projects
                    in the labs.
        \_ Why not explain that your workplace is relaxed, supportive, and
           full of wonderful, interesting people? Smoke and mirrors will
           only work if you want to hire bozos.
           \_ Uh huh.  Every place is just wonderful to work at.
              \_ Not. Most startups are pretty shitty. So are most large
                 companies. If people knew what it was like to work at
                 say Cisco with its endless bickering, meetings, schedule
                 slips, shitty managers, crappy IS etc., they would probably
                 want to work somewhere else. - cisco alum
           \_ 1. The question was sarcastic and rhetorical;
                     \_ work sucks no matter which way you make for most
                        of us, that's why it's called work.
              2. I think you're confusing good lazy w/ bad lazy.
        \_ Bring a few trinkets, pens, postit notes, keychains, lights with
           the company logo and web site and give these out. When people
           come to get the stuff, tell them about your company, what you do,
           the kind of people who work there, etc. Explain why its a good
           place to work and you will get good people, otherwise you will
           get a bunch of lusers who just want to win some free stuff.