Match Week or Signing Day for the rest of us

I liked this Business Journal article about how to apply some learning from National Signing Day for high school athletes to company hiring – National Signing Day: Three hiring lessons for your business (Birmingham Business Journal, 2.5.14).

I’ve also been really intrigued by The National Resident Matching Program for medical students.

What if I had been able to go through a similar process when getting into advertising after undergrad. My liberal arts English major might not have helped my cause, but maybe the prestige of Carleton would have still had me landing at a top MN agency.

Could ALA or SLA institute something like this for MLIS grads, and would I have wanted to participate? Probably not as I’m pretty happy with where I am today, but still, it’s intriguing …