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
- Collaborate on experiential learning opportunities, such as case competitions, case studies, and site visits
- Create a job shadow experience or internship program
- Connect with 60+ business-focused student organizations
Post jobs or internships
Handshake is your hub for recruiting. Advertise jobs or internships, register for career fairs, schedule on-campus interviews, and more through Handshake.
Connect with students through the platform used by over 420,000 employers across the country.
Interview Our Students
We take care of logistics to ensure you have a seamless recruiting experience
Our Career Engagement Studio offers 10 interview rooms to help you connect directly with our talented students. Interviews are held at 3290 Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave, 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 but 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.
Refreshments
The Capital Café is located on the first floor of Grainger Hall. Company representatives receive a complimentary beverage or snack. Lunch breaks are typically built into your interview schedule between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
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.
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.
Employer Partnership Program
Establish a strategic presence for your organization through increased visibility, access, and engagement opportunities.
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 partner meetings
- 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:
Gold: Faculty connections and experiential engagement—$10,000+
Become a flagship partner of WSB with connections to Career Forward programming, faculty, and academic departments. Work with leadership to establish signature student experiences.
Benefits:
- Facilitated relationship building with select academic departments and Career Forward pathway consultants
- Invitation to “Design a Day” in the Career Engagement Studio
- One free table at both fall and spring campus-wide career fairs
- Career fair sponsorship package
- Custom programming and strategic connections designed around your recruiting goals
Silver: Career engagement and industry prioritization—$5,000
Further your recruiting reach with strategic connections to the career engagement team and position your organization as a priority partner within your industry.
Benefits:
- Targeted email promotion of your company’s campus events
- Priority access to programming relevant to your hiring goals
- Facilitated introductions to student organizations of interest
Bronze: Brand awareness and exposure—$2,500
Build your recruiting pipeline. Make your company and its opportunities visible to our students and support student career preparation.
Benefits:
- Brand visibility within Career Engagement Studio and publications, and on the WSB website and digital platforms
- Invitation to participate in large-scale career preparation events, including mock interviews, job shadows, etc.
- Priority access to scheduling on-campus interviews and events
Job & Internships 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 | November 1 or two weeks after the offer is made, whichever comes later |
| Fall interviews | Full-time or internship offers | November 1 or two weeks after offer is made, whichever comes later |
| Spring interviews for Summer 2025 | Full-time or internship offers | Provide at least two weeks after offer is made |
| Spring interviews for Summer 2026 | Internship offers | April 15, 2025 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 2026 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
Michael Quesnell
Amanda M Eannelli
Ashley Wilcox
