GM hasn't exactly done much to further its reputation for innovation in the past few years, but there's one area where the company has shown a surprising willingness to try innovative new approaches: student recruiting. Recognizing that the traditional approach of sending recruiters on campus visits and then hiring those who could best recite their pre-rehearsed stories during interviews was not necessarily the most effective way to find the talent they needed, GM has taken a new approach of…

Several weeks ago an apparent uptick in just-in-time MBA hiring was reported as graduation came and went for many students. Now, well into the summer, it appears that this uptick has become a trend, with a number of sources reporting steady increases in MBA recruiting. A recently released survey by the MBA Career Services Council indicated that 38% of U.S. business schools noticed an increase in on-campus university recruiting activities for…