Recruiting Recent College Graduates
As a leading advocate for the student athlete, Game Theory focuses on the selection and promotion of recent student athlete college graduates. Game Theory realizes that the competition for talent has intensified. The workforce demographic shift from the retiring Baby Boomers to the incoming Millennials has created a talent gap in the workforce that employers are driving to close.

Entry level employers increased their hiring by 7.3% in 2007 and by 9.6% in 2006. Among the Top 500 Entry Level Employers,

• 60% are planning to hire more college grads in 2007 than in 2006
• Top 567 employers represent 180k hires in 2007 (US domestic)

College Athletes
Traits of college athletes have a proven track record of success in the professional world

• College athletes’ strong competitive drive often translates into the goal to be financially well-off
• The team-work skills and an enhanced competitive drive cultivated through college athletics carry over into their careers and are key success factors in the professional world
• The ability to apply strategic thinking and adjust a particular strategy during a game translates well and is a great proving ground for successful business negotiations
• Attributes such as self-control, perseverance, discipline, team work, and competitive drive are all viewed as “critical” in both the athletic and business arenas

Small sampling of well-known student athletes

• 6 out of the last 10 US Presidents were college athletes
  
  • President Dwight Eisenhower, US Military Academy at West Point, Football
    
  • President John Kennedy, Harvard University, Football
  • President Richard Nixon, Whittier College, Football
  • President Gerald Ford, University of Michigan, Football
  • President Ronald Reagan, Eureka College, Football
  • President George HW Bush, Yale University, Baseball

Game Theory's Recruiting Practice
Game Theory has developed relationships with top tier academic institutions and their student athletes to develop a highly capable talent pool for our clients’ selection and recruiting processes. Game Theory’s proprietary recruiting process includes assessment and selection of talent, as well as candidate management.

Game Theory’s recruiting process starts with a primary assessment of a client’s current selection and development processes, practices and policies. The assessment provides a comprehensive view in to a client’s key hiring indicators and is designed specifically to assist clients in increasing the hiring success rate. This is achieved by comparing candidates against Game Theory talent profile benchmarks. These benchmarks are customized “job fit” profiles that define the ideal candidate characteristics for the positions in your organization.

Game Theory reports are based on the customized benchmark job analysis with validated and reliable data. The reports provide a detailed summary of the critical work-specific characteristics of potential candidates, an internal comparison to characteristics that have been identified for the position within the company, as well as a global comparison across industries.

Game Theory Group International
Game Theory Group International was founded as a talent management consulting firm with national scope and capability. Game Theory offers customizable talent management solutions for both corporate and university athletic department clients. Fueled by the retirement of the Baby Boomer generation coupled with the introduction of the Generation Y / Millennial generation, Game Theory’s unique approach is focused on enhancing clients’ organizational structure and performance through improved talent management with a special interest in recruiting and managing recent college graduates.