Ms. Boden: We follow typical campus schedules, where we will come in the fall for a presentation to begin our on-campus recruiting efforts.

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Schools' career-services offices typically host career fairs, workshops on topics ranging from cover letters to apartment-hunting in a new city, and on-campus recruiting sessions with companies hiring recent graduates.

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Michael Fenton, a May graduate of the University of Florida Hough Graduate School of Business in Gainesville, expected to learn about job openings from career services but quickly realized that the school's on-campus recruiting and other connections for jobs for its accelerated class may not be enough to get him hired.

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