Recruiters & Career - Recruit Darden Talent - Hiring Policies

Recruiters & Career

Recruiters & Career - Recruit Darden Talent - Hiring Policies

Hiring Policies

We appreciate your commitment to hiring talent at Darden and willingness to partner with the School's faculty, students and Career Center.

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Darden believes that our combination of student and employer policies enables employers to develop valuable long-term relationships with the School and provides students with optimal career opportunities.

The policies and guidelines outlined below have been developed to provide a fair recruiting process for all students, faculty and corporate recruiters. This allows our students time for evaluating opportunities, and our employers equal and timely access to all of our talented MBA and MSBA students.

2025-26 Policies and Guildelines

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These policies, guidelines and dates apply to any company that utilizes Darden's recruiting platform, Darden Career Link, Career Services, or partners with a student club to promote, market, or showcase their job opportunities to students through events or interviews - whether held on Darden Grounds or virtually.

If you are interested in recruiting at Darden in 2025-26, please reach out to the Recruiting Operations team for additional details. We look forward to working with you.

Email Darden Career Center Recruiting Operations

Key Recruiting and Academic Dates

 
11 - 15 August First Year Launch Week (Orientation)
18 August Classes Begin
26 August Full-Time Recruiting Begins
8 September Internship Recruiting Begins
9 September No internship recruiting - First Year academic commitment
11 September Internship/Full-Time Career Expo
19 September Darden DC Connections Networking Event
22-24 September Minimal recruiting - Rosh Hashanah
29 September Full-time interviews begin
1-2 October No interviews/minimal recruiting - Yom Kippur
3-12 October No recruiting - exams & Fall Break
13-17 October No recruiting  - Darden Career Week
20 October

Quarter 2 Begins

20 October Internship Recruiting Invite-only Events Begin
24 October DC Tech Connect
4 November Election Day (No classes)
26-30 November Thanksgiving Break
10-16 December Q2 Ends & Exams
17 December - 11 January Winter Break
5 January Internship Interviews Begin
12 January Q3 Begins
19 January MLK Holiday (No classes)
26 February - 4 March Q3 Ends & Exams
5-15 March Spring Break
16 March Q4 Begins
30 April - 5 May Q4 Ends & Exams
11 May Internships may begin
15-17 May Final Exercises Weekend (Graduation)
14 August Internships must end
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Darden Career Link offers employers the opportunity to post roles when the time is right for you. These opportunities can be targeted to students in all degree formats as well as Darden alumni.

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