Relationship of various college graduate characteristics to recruiting decisions

Abstract

19 personal and biographical characteristics of business school graduates of the University of Minnesota in 1961 were related to several criteria representing success in the campus-recruiting process. Of the characteristics studied, only appearance rank (handsomeness) marital status, and office experience were found to be significantly related (p ≤ .05) to any of the 5 criteria representing student job-seeking success. These findings are contrary to those of several surveys of campus recruiters and firms with respect to the relative weight assigned to various student characteristics in selection decisions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)