Campus Recruitment and Benchmark Report

The 2012 CACEE Campus Recruitment and Benchmark Survey Report is now available! We would like to thank Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario for their generous support without which this Report would not be possible.

If you are a member, please click here to sign in and download your copy; if you are a respondent to the survey please contact  to receive your copy.

If are a not a CACEE member and a non participant of the survey, you may click here to read the Executive Summary or purchase your copy for $300.00. Please contact  to order your copy.

The CACEE Campus Recruitment and Benchmark Survey – 2012 is a compilation of information regarding the new graduate recruitment practices of employers throughout Canada. The survey details the level of full-time and co-op/internship recruitment hiring that occurred in the regions of Canada during 2011-12 and the average salaries new graduates received upon entering the workforce. It also estimates the level of hiring and the anticipated change in starting salary levels for the 2012-13 recruiting season. Finally, the survey establishes a number of benchmarks for recruiting practices ranging from the branding activities that Canadian employers take on in order to make themselves known and attractive to potential graduating employees to developing an estimated cost per hire for filling the positions these new graduate recruits will take on.

The survey was conducted on-line from June 26, 2012 to July 31, 2012 and was open by invitation to employers throughout Canada. This was the second year that on-line questionnaires were available in both English and French. In total, 450 employers responded to the survey. The responding organizations that were willing to be listed are found in the appendix.


For additional information please contact Paul D. Smith, CACEE Executive Director, at .