Recruit & Hire Undergraduate Business Students
Find the Next Generation of Business Leaders
Achieve your organization’s recruiting and hiring goals with our industry-focused employer engagement team. We use a custom approach to ensure you successfully identify and hire high-performing, team-oriented, innovative professionals.
Engage with Business Badgers
- Meet students by hosting presentations and networking events or over coffee chats
- Collaborate on experiential learning opportunities, such as case competitions, case studies, and career treks
- Create a job shadow experience or internship program
- Connect with 70+ business-focused student organizations
Post jobs or internships
Handshake is your hub for recruiting. You can advertise jobs or internships, register for career fairs, schedule on-campus interviews and recruiting events, and more.
Connect with students through the platform used by over 500,000 employers across the country.
Wisconsin Shapes Top Talent
Wisconsin students are ready to make an impact. Trained by the best minds in business, they ask tough questions. Raise their hands. Show up with humility, grit, and heart.
It’s who they are—and why they’re trusted to lead. Discover how you can get to know our students.
Interview Our Students
We take care of logistics to ensure you have a seamless recruiting experience
Our Career Engagement Studio offers 20 interview rooms to help you connect directly with our talented students. Interviews are held at 3290 Grainger Hall, 975 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706.
Check-in begins at 8 a.m. We will provide a packet containing the interview schedule and student résumés.
Virtual interviews
Virtual interviews are an option. We encourage you to schedule these in Handshake, which allows us to make our interview rooms available to students during your scheduled interview day.
Scheduling
You are encouraged to schedule second-round interviews on Fridays. Interview schedules are customizable. Typically individual interviews are 30 minutes and you have a 30-minute morning and afternoon break, and an hour lunch break.
Parking
Limited parking is available. If you require on-campus parking for your visit, please request it at least three weeks in advance.
Recruit the Business Leaders of Tomorrow
Our graduates are empathetic, curious, confident, and driven to make an impact on day one.
Top Employers
Full-Time Position Acceptances and Average Salaries
Destinations for Graduates
Andrew Quinn, BBA ’11
Co-Founder and CFO/COO at PathWell Health | Finance, Accounting, and Economics
Ash Gupta, BBA ’10
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Galaxy Capital Partners
Cynthia Chu, BBA ’99
CFO and Growth Officer at Audible | Finance + Marketing
Diana Xiong, BBA ’20
Account Strategist at Google | Marketing
Jake Wood, BBA ’05
Founder and Executive Chairman at Team Rubicon and Founder and CEO at Groundswell | Real EstateJennifer Olson, BBA ’95, MBA ’97
SVP/Chief Operating Officer at Children’s Minnesota | Finance
Jim Wuthrich, BBA ’86
President of Content Distribution at Warner Media | Marketing
Joe Simler, BBA ’08
Senior Manager, Corporate Sponsorships at Dallas Cowboys | Marketing
Jon Fasoli, BBA ’09
Vice President, Small Business and Self-Employed Segment Leader at Intuit
Joseline Nyinawabera, BBA ’13, MBA ’22
Founder at BlkBld & Co. | Marketing and Human Resources
Katie Bergen, BBA ’09
Senior Director, Investor Relations and Capital Strategies at EverWest Real Estate Investors | Real Estate and Urban Land Economics; Finance, Investment and Banking
Nolan Cunningham, BBA ’17
Sr. Process and Controls Analyst at HomeServices of America | Management and Marketing
Reena Vokoun, BBA ’98
Founder and CEO at Passion Fit | Marketing + Management
Rodney Lynk Jr., BBA ’09
Chief Academic Officer at Milwaukee Excellence Charter School | Finance Investment Banking and Risk Management Insurance
Ryan Oremus, BBA ’97
Sr. Vice President of Finance at Boston Red Sox | Accounting and Finance
Shawn Michels, BBA ’18
Founder and CEO at Steady Shot, LLC | Accounting
Sidney Ullrich, BBA ’18
Associate Category Manager at Walgreens | Marketing and Operations and Technology Management
Build Your Brand and Connect With Students
Career fairs
Increase your brand recognition and connect with more than 3,000 students interested in business careers. UW–Madison hosts two all-campus career and internship fairs each year, in September and February.
Select Wisconsin School of Business academic departments host their own career fairs, including real estate, risk management and insurance, accounting, and supply chain management.
Classroom projects
Sponsor classroom-based experiential learning opportunities that have a real impact. Provide a challenge your business is facing and let the students find potential solutions. In this capstone course, students manage every step—from analysis to presenting recommendations—to solve the real-world problem.
Career Engagement Studio
Connect with students using our flexible space designed for networking, coffee chats, workshops, presentations, and more. Work with your industry lead to customize an engagement strategy.
Career Forward Employer Partnership Program
Increase your on-campus visibility while supporting students’ career development and exploration.
Work with our team to collaborate on a strategy that meets your recruiting goals. All partners receive:
- Access to recruiting and educational activities in our Career Engagement Studio
- An invitation to participate in our fall and spring employer open house events
- Preferential table location and/or recognition at WSB career and internship fairs
To learn more, contact Brett Jones, director of Employer Engagement, at brett.jones@wisc.edu or 608-262-2725.
Choose your partnership pathway:
Career Exploration in the Real World
More than 300 Business Badgers go beyond the classroom and participate in signature experiences each year. This is your chance to engage with the next generation of bold business leaders. Check out what students had to say about their experiences.
Career treks
Help students explore different careers and industries. Students visit between five and eight companies over two to three days. Past cities include Austin, Chicago, Boston, and New York. Twenty undergraduate business students go on each trek. They occur in January, March, and May.
Job shadow
Show off your company’s day-to-day operations, facilities, culture, and more. You will host between five and 20 undergraduate business students at a time. The half- or full-day visits occur during winter, spring, and summer breaks. Employee participants span industries.
Case competitions
Connect with students from the country’s best undergraduate business programs. Be a judge, attend the employer showcase, and network with participants through one-on-one coffee chats. Competitions include our very own annual Wisconsin Invitational Consulting Case Competition.
Internships
Be a crucial part of a student’s growth. Offer hands-on experiences, teach critical skills, and be part of their professional network. Our undergraduate business students intern at top companies across the country. Many are hired for full-time positions where they interned.
Job & Internship Offers
Offer schedule
| Semester | Offers | Date |
| Summer internships and programs | Full-time conversion offers resulting from previous summer internships and internship offers resulting from summer activities such as leadership conferences | At least two weeks after offer is made |
| Fall interviews | Full-time or internship offers | At least two weeks after offer is made |
| Spring interviews for Summer 2026 | Full-time or internship offers | At least two weeks after offer is made |
| Spring interviews for Summer 2027 | Internship offers | April 15, 2026, or two weeks, whichever comes later |
General recruitment guidelines
- Firms operating on timelines with earlier acceptance deadlines should understand that this carries an increased risk of students reneging on offers.
- For Summer 2027 internship offers, our career engagement team will not be penalizing or disciplining students who renege on offers that do not follow the April 15 or two-week guideline.
- Students may always accept offers prior to stated deadlines if they choose to do so.
Meet Our Team
Brett Jones
Industry lead for startups, sports/ entertainment, consulting, health care, technology, information systems, and social impact
Amanda Eannelli
Industry lead for CPG, retail, media, advertising, supply chain, and manufacturing
Ashley Wilcox
Industry lead for accounting, financial services, real estate, and risk and insurance
