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Recruiting Services for Employers

Contacts for employers

General information and recruiting advice:

    • For advance arrangements to schedule meetings with various individuals on campus, please contact:

    Ms. Kimberly Ware
    Associate Director, Employer Relations
    (540) 231-8079
    kware@vt.edu

Posting jobs

Specifics about recruiting and the On-Campus Interviewing Progam:

  • For recruiting and for the On-Campus Interviewing Program for:
    • All positions — interns, co-ops, and permanent positions for graduating students.
    • All academic levels — freshmen, sophomores, juniors and graduating seniors.
    • All degree levels — bachelor's, master's & doctoral.
    • Alumni.

Please contact either:
Ms. Lisa Boothe
Recruiting Services Coordinator
(540) 231-8875
lisa.boothe@vt.edu
OR
Ms. Betsy McCoy
Recruiting Services Manager
(540) 231-6776
betsy.mccoy@vt.edu

Career fairs:

  • Please note that Career Services sponsors the Connection Co-op and Internship Job Fair, but we do not control or operate the other job fairs held on campus.
  • List of career fairs provides:
    • Links to each event web site.
    • Name(s) of sponsoring college, department or student organization.
    • Contact person for each event.
  • Need advice about which fair(s) to attend? We'll be happy to advise you; please contact:

    • Ms. Lisa Boothe
    Recruiting Services Coordinator
    (540) 231-8875
    lisa.boothe@vt.edu
    OR
    Ms. Betsy McCoy
    Recruiting Services Manager
    (540) 231-6776
    betsy.mccoy@vt.edu

Cooperative Education & Internship Program:

Ms. Julie Richardson
Co-op / Internship Program Coordinator
(540) 231-6241
julie.richardson@vt.edu

Sponsorship and support opportunities:

    • Support opportunities exist for those interested in ways to support the work of Career Services and to be involved in our sponsored events and services. Should you wish to discuss these, please contact:

    Dr. Donna Cassell Ratcliffe
    Career Services Director
    (540) 231-8077
    cassell.ratcliffe@vt.edu
    OR
    Ms. Kimberly Ware
    Associate Director for Employer Relations
    (540) 231-8079
    kware@vt.edu

Liaisons to academic colleges:

  • Certain academic colleges at Virginia Tech have liaisons who work with both students and employers to promote career services and recruiting efforts.
  • Contact these individuals if you have interests in working closely with a particular college, or major within that college, for doing presentations or information sessions, arranging meetings with faculty or student groups or classes, sponsorship of events, and other needs related to your recruiting efforts.
  • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences:

Jacquelyn M. Pelzer, D.V.M.
Career Services Coordinator
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
(540) 231-6939
jpelzer@vt.edu

  • Pamplin College of Business:

Mr. Gary S. Kinder
Director of Undergraduate Career Services
Pamplin College of Business
(540) 231-6602
gkinder@vt.edu

Employers can also contact Gary regarding:

  • College Science:

Ms. Debbie Wilson
Career Coordinator
College of Science
(540) 231-8181
dewilso2@vt.edu

Employers can also contact Debbie about two career fairs:

Please also send Debbie job postings of interest to students in her college — full-time permanent post-grad, and summer internships and co-op positions.

  • Other colleges:

For advance arrangements to schedule meetings with various individuals on campus, please contact:

Ms. Kimberly Ware
Associate Director, Employer Relations
(540) 231-8079
kware@vt.edu

Career Services contacts for employers

Donna Cassell Ratcliffe, Director

Donna Cassell Ratcliffe
Director

Kimberly Ware, Associate Director for Employer Relations

Kimberly Ware
Associate Director for Employer Relations

Betsy McCoy, Recruiting Services Manager

Betsy McCoy
Recruiting Services Manager

Lisa Boothe, Recruiting Services Coordinator

Lisa Boothe
Recruiting Services Coordinator

Julie Richardson

Julie Richardson
Cooperative Education & Internship Program Coordinator