Employment and Recruiting Partnerships
The Engage Center for Experiential Learning and Career Readiness partners with employers, community organizations, and alumni to establish intentional short-term and long-term employment and recruiting partnerships that strengthen workforce pipelines and advance student career success. Through customized engagement strategies, we connect your organization with motivated, career-ready students and alumni prepared to contribute meaningfully from day one. Whether you are seeking to hire interns, recruit early talent, expand your campus presence, or develop strategic workforce initiatives, we collaborate with you to create high-impact engagement aligned with your organizational goals. Employment and recruiting partnerships extend beyond single events or job postings. Our goal is to help you move from transactional recruiting to transformational partnership—building sustained relationships that support both your hiring objectives and student career success outcomes.
Establish an Employment and Recruiting Partnership
A strategic partnership with the Engage Center allows your organization to:
- Build early and sustained access to emerging talent
- Align recruitment efforts with academic programs, majors, and workforce needs
- Increase brand visibility and campus presence
- Strengthen diversity-focused hiring initiatives
- Develop structured, long-term talent pipelines
- Contribute meaningfully to student experiential learning and professional development
Partnership Options for Employment and Recruiting
Employment and recruiting partnerships leverage the Engage Center’s centralized model to provide seamless access to multiple types of integrated employment and recruitment options including:
Jobs and Internships
Post full-time job, part-time job, internship, and other experiential learning opportunities for students and alumni applications through Handshake, our online career and experiential learning management system. Handshake allows you to:
- Promote your organization and opportunities
- Manage applications efficiently
- Coordinate interviews
- Track engagement in one convenient system
- Report hires
Career Fairs
Participate in career fairs to connect with a diverse pool of talented students and alumni across academic majors and degrees. Career fairs offer high-visibility recruiting opportunities and support immediate and long-term hiring strategies.
Recruiting and Networking Events
Coordinate customized recruiting and networking engagements tailored to your workforce needs, including:
- Information tables
- Information sessions
- Interview sessions
- Networking events
- Specialized recruiting programs
Coordinate Recruiting and Networking Events
Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs)
For employers and community partners seeking deeper, more structured collaboration, the Engage Center offers the opportunity to formalize partnerships through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). An MOU establishes a shared framework for sustained engagement and clearly outlines partnership goals, responsibilities, timelines, and anticipated outcomes. These agreements support long-term workforce development strategies and create intentional alignment between your organizational hiring needs and Bowie State University’s academic programs and student talent pipeline.
MOUs may include:
- Strategic hiring commitments or early talent pipelines
- Dedicated internship or experiential learning pathways
- Coordinated annual participation in career fairs and recruiting events
- Industry-specific engagement initiatives
- Targeted outreach to designated academic programs or student populations
- Employer-sponsored programming, professional development workshops, or networking events
- Ongoing data-sharing and reporting on student engagement and hires
Through an MOU, partners move beyond periodic recruitment activity toward a sustained, collaborative relationship that supports both institutional priorities and organizational workforce goals. To explore establishing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Engage Center, please contact our Employer Partnerships and Experiential Opportunities Team to schedule a consultation.
Contact the Employer Partnerships and Experiential Opportunities Team
About the Handshake System
The Engage Center uses Handshake as the central platform for coordinating employment and recruiting engagement. Through Handshake, you can:
- Post positions
- Register for career fairs
- Request recruiting and networking events
- Manage applications and interviews
- Track participation and engagement
- Report hires
Already Have a Handshake Account?
Log in to Handshake to post positions, manage applications, register for a career fair, and coordinate recruiting events, and more:
Log In to Handshake to Coordinate Events
New to Handshake?
If you are new to Handshake as an external partner, you may first review the instructional guide and then create a new account.