Interviews at Penn
The University of Pennsylvania offers a spacious facility dedicated solely to interviewing for employers interested in coming to campus for recruiting. Boasting 48 interview rooms and a comfortable employer lounge, this one-of-a-kind facility is available for interview days of all sizes. Our team will provide assistance and expertise at every step of your recruiting process and are here to ensure that you have a seamless interviewing experience.
The Penn Career Services Senior Associate Director of Employer Relations, Jackie Moriniere, will be happy to assist you with arranging on-campus interviews. You can reach her at jmorini@upenn.edu or 215-898-5740.
Employers may request an on-campus interviewing date through our recruiting platform, Handshake.
- Current Users: If you already have a Handshake account, simply connect with the University of Pennsylvania.
- New Users: Request access to Handshake first, and then request to connect to the University of Pennsylvania.
- If you do not see “Request an Interview” on your Handshake home page for Penn, contact Employer Relations Coordinator, Heather Knox. You can reach her at hknox@upenn.edu or 215-898-5740.
- Employers can continue to use Handshake to manage interview sign-ups, but should generate a link from their preferred videoconference platform (such as Zoom or BlueJeans) for students and recruiters to connect. In this way, interviewers using their corporate platforms will be able to take full advantage of features such as waiting rooms in Zoom or locked meetings in BlueJeans. Instructions for how to add your link to your Handshake schedules can be found here.
- Employers with back-to-back schedules will need to think through how to handle these schedules as there is not a way to put two URLS for one schedule in Handshake. Using breakout rooms in Zoom would be one option or simply communicating the two links to students directly via email would be another.
- We ask that all employers participating in virtual OCI provide interviewer contact information to students who may have technical difficulties or need to cancel an interview. While typically the Penn staff would handle this, we are concerned that we may not always know who the actual interviewer is if a student needs to cancel on short notice.
Our Employer Toolkit is a one-stop resource for all your Penn recruiting and Handshake questions.
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