Abstract
On-campus recruiting is a key platform for many firms to recruit fresh talent for entry level jobs. However, the preferences of employers over job applicant characteristics have not been granularly studied. Moreover, little is known about students' perception about employer preferences, even though information asymmetries among job applicants have been shown to drive demographic gaps in wages and other labor outcomes. This study aims to address these gaps in the literature using various experiments, particularly, an Incentivized Resume Rating exercise (following Kessler, Low, Sullivan, 2019) on employers and job seeking students participating in on-campus recruiting, as well as an information intervention experiment on employers to determine if they use resume attributes to extract information about the unobserved productivity of job applicants.