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« First ‹ Previous ∞ Random ∞ Next › Last » People always came back from the career fairs with stuff: pens, notepads, little puzzles, and so on. It was a strange dynamic; students wanted internships, and companies wanted interns, but it always seemed like the students were more desperate than the companies. The little gifts would suggest otherwise. Are you really going to get the best intern to work for you if your reward for a booth visit is a set of 50 magnetic ball bearings? Perhaps.
Is Cthulhu saying Mr. Sparky or Mr. Spanky? I think I meant Mr. Sparky.
“Are you really going to get the best intern to work for you if your reward for a booth visit is a set of 50 magnetic ball bearings?” Oh yes.
They’re not bribing you to work there, they’re impressing you with their sense of what’s cool. And then whenever you play with their little toy, you think of the company, and how cool it would be to work for the guys who know this toy is cool.
The asymmetry is no doubt due to money. Students can’t afford to have little gifts made up, companies can — or at least, they want to give the impression that they can, because money is what they’re ultimately bringing to the table.
This too. The company that can afford to give thirty-dollar ball-bearing toys to everybody who stops by their booth may be better prepared to pay you than the company that only has ten-cent pens.