Most career centres are fighting the same two battles at once: getting students to show up, and keeping employers invested.
What Rohan Malhotra has seen firsthand is that these aren't two separate problems — they're the same one. When students stop engaging, employers start pulling back. And when students are genuinely invested, everything else follows.
We'll explore:
🔹 Why student engagement and employer relations are two sides of the same coin — and what breaks down when one slips
🔹 How a student engagement scoring system creates accountability, tracks participation, and unlocks deeper, more personalised support
🔹 The initiatives that are actually working: pitch competitions with guaranteed interviews, banking weeks, and student ambassador programmes
🔹 What doing more for high-engagement students really looks like — flagging CVs, securing introductions, and being able to vouch for the right candidates
🔹 How to protect and strengthen employer relationships for the long term, even when student turnout is the challenge