We keep hearing there is a dearth of talent for professional service occupations like accounting and auditing. Big firms like Deloitte and Touche have raised the bar in campus recruiting by bypassing the traditional college recruitment route and hitting the high schools instead. Deloitte participates in a program called Virtual Enterprise whereby they set up shop in various high schools for a few hours a week in front of potential business talent and its future employee base. Deloitte is not alone, defense contracting giant Lockheed Martin also participates in the program on the look out for a stable of future engineers. The innovative program offers high school students paid internships before they even enter college and a promise of further opportunity down the road.
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