Employer Resources

Eligible Employers

• Must have current or anticipated position openings for college students or alumni.
• Any “employer-employee” relationship must be conducted with no fees associated with becoming an employee of the organization (including fees to a student for third party recruiters), other than professional licensure fees for career employees that may be necessary to be paid by employee.
• Must comply with all federal, state, and local Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws and regulations. This includes but is not limited to discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin, creed, religion, sex (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation or preference, gender identity and expressions, age, marital status, disability, Vietnam-era Veteran or other Protected Veteran.
• For internships, the employer must provide a professionally affiliated person or resource, other than the direct supervisor or family member of the company owner/operator, to which the student employee may seek recourse in the event of a workplace conflict or dispute. If a business is small or not set up structurally to accommodate this, please reach out to the Industry Navigator to seek and establish a campus resource to serve this role. For internships that require professional training experience, the employer is expected to incur the full cost of the training including fees, travel and housing costs, and compensation for time, and not pass the burden of the cost to the student at any time.
• Due to liability, unpaid internships cannot be posted/ promoted unless they are done for credit. Students and employers seeking clarification on this may reach out to the organization’s Industry Navigator within MSU Denver’s C3 Hub.
• Employers with a home-based business must provide their tax ID and maintain a professional atmosphere, including appropriate business hours, safe location for performance of duties, and appropriate professional attire. In the event that uniforms or branded attire is required as part of the job and the cost of uniforms or branded attire cannot be paid for by the employer, the employer must communicate upfront that the employee will be expected to cover that cost out of pocket.

Third Party Employers

• Third-party recruiters are agencies, organizations, or individuals recruiting candidates for employment opportunities other than their own organization’s needs, and who will not be the final employer or managing organization of the candidate, On-campus recruiting services that third party recruiters are eligible for include career fairs and posting full- or part-time positions on MSU Denver Career Link. This does not include internships.
• Third party recruiters must adhere to the same policies and regulations that direct employers are held to with regard to posting and promotion of positions. They must provide disclosure of position(s) posted on MSU Denver Career Link and employer they represent for recruiting activities. Transparency is key to avoid misunderstandings, mitigate mismatches of core values, and ensure students are engaging in safe and legitimate professional activities.

Ineligible Employers

We reserve the right to deem any organization ineligible whose policies or goals are determined to be in conflict with the mission of MSU Denver.  The final approval for employers to utilize campus facilities and services rests with the Executive Director of Industry Partnerships. 

Ineligible employers include multi-level or network marketing organizations and franchise/business opportunities that engage in one of more of the following practices: 

• Sponsorship of an individual in setting up his/her own business for the purpose of selling products or services and/or recruiting other individuals to set up their own business (ex: direct sales organizations). 
• Requirement of an initial investment from individuals, with the organization itself serving as an umbrella or parent corporation.  Examples of initial investment include, but are not limited to, direct payment of a fixed fee, payment to attend an orientation or training session, and/or purchase of a starter kit. 
• Compensation is disproportionately or exclusively in the form of straight commission, fees from others under their sponsorship in the organization, and/or a percentage of sales generated by others. 

All registration fees or other event-related payments must be remitted prior to the event. Employers who are delayed in remitting payment will not be confirmed to attend another event until all back payments have been settled. Employers who fail to pay for an event are ineligible for future on-campus recruiting services.     

No refunds are given to employers who No-Show.  

Cancellations must be requested before the cancellation deadline in order to receive a refund.  Employers who fail to provide all requested information to confirm their recruiting activity limit our ability to promote the opportunity to students and will be subject to cancellation.  If your event is cancelled by MSU Denver, we will try to find another time to coordinate your visit within the same semester, but we do not guarantee that a new date will be available.    

Career Fair registration cancellations with refund requests must be sent in writing to (and received by) one of the event organizers, and will be considered based on the following schedule: 

• Cancellations requested 22 or more calendar days prior to the event, cancellations may receive a full refund minus system-generated payment processing fees (6%) 
• Cancellations requested 8-21 calendar days prior to the event, cancellations may receive a 50% refund. 
• Cancellations made 7 or fewer days prior to the event may receive no refund. 

At the discretion of the Industry Navigator, Information or Tabling Session cancellations can be credited toward a newly scheduled information or tabling session, otherwise following the same cancellation schedule as Career Fairs. 

Employers are expected to maintain the confidentiality of all student and alumni information.  Sharing information about a candidate with another organization other than MSU Denver career professionals is not acceptable unless the employer receives prior written consent from the candidate. 

FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) Regulations 

For complete information on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, please visit the U.S. Department of Education FERPA webpage and the MSU Denver FERPA webpage.

The Metropolitan State University of Denver reserves the right to refuse service to employers for reasons including, but not limited to: 

• Misrepresentation of employer information 
• Complaints by students and alumni 
• Applying undue or unnecessary pressure on candidate to make a decision about accepting the job.  Specifying expected decision timelines in the post can help mitigate this.  
• Positions not likely to be of interest to MSU Denver students and alumni 
• Harassment of MSU Denver students, alumni, staff or faculty 
• Disclosure of confidential information without consent of the candidate 
• Failure to comply with MSU Denver’s Employer Policies 

• Failure to pay for previous on-campus recruiting event 
• The ethical standards within the employer company change such that they conflict with the mission of MSU Denver. 

NACE (Nat’l Assoc. of Colleges & Employers) PRINCIPLES FOR ETHICAL PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 

Career services and employment professionals are involved in an important process: helping students choose and attain personally rewarding careers, and helping employers develop effective college relations programs which contribute to optimum candidate selections for their organizations. The impact of this process upon individuals and organizations requires commitment by practitioners to principles for professional conduct. Please review the NACE Principles for Ethical Professional Practice.

Students and alumni of MSU Denver utilize CareerLink, the self-service portal, for professional opportunities or positions while they are completing their degree.  A guidebook on how to use this tool can be found here.

The following policies are established to determine eligibility of an organization’s employment opportunity: 

• The position CANNOT be commission-only. 
• The pay rate CANNOT be below the Colorado state minimum wage calculated over any time scale such as hourly, weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, or annually. Exceptions are made for unpaid internships and some considerations may be made for stipend positions, both of which must be reviewed by MSU Denver. 
• Company merchandise or products CANNOT be given to the student in lieu of payment. 
• The position must reside within an established business or agency which provides oversight of their services, the hiring process, and any liability issues. Such positions MAY include nannies, au pairs, and/or tutors. 

In compliance with Auraria Campus policies and procedures, employers must abide by the following during their time on campus: 

• You can provide information about your organization and its open positions to the campus community.  Such organizations are NOT authorized to sell products or services, but may disseminate information regarding them. 
• All items must be removed, including trash and debris, from the event or information table area daily.  Items must not be left overnight, including signage, etc. 
• Shouting or other noisy attraction methods designed to gather attention to the information space are not permitted. For indoor information spaces, activities must take place from behind the assigned table so as not to interfere with ingress/egress through the buildings. For outdoor information spaces, activities must take place within the area of the assigned table.  Activities must not impede pedestrian traffic. 
• Due to fire regulations and Governor’s Order on smoking, burning of materials of any kind is not allowed.  This includes cigarettes, incense burning, etc. 
• The use of information tables for the sale or distribution of food or other products is not allowed. 
• Credit card/calling card vendors are not allowed to be solicited at information tables. 
• A copy of all distributed materials must be provided to the Classroom to Career Hub no later than the start of the information session/table/interview. 
• No personal information may be collected from anyone on campus other than common contact information (name, email address, phone number). 

Employers are expected to avoid discrimination in their campus engagement and recruitment process, and follow equal employment opportunity and affirmative action principles established under NACE.  

NACE Position Statement: Diversity and Anti-Discrimination 

The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) connects more than 7,300 college career services professionals at nearly 2,000 colleges and universities nationwide and nearly 3,000 university relations and recruiting professionals representing more than 900 corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations that serve this community. NACE is the leading source of information on the employment of the college educated, and forecasts hiring and trends in the job market; tracks starting salaries, recruiting and hiring practices, and student attitudes and outcomes; and identifies best practices and benchmarks. 

The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) has a long-standing tradition of promoting diversity and inclusiveness as part of its core mission—facilitating the employment of the college educated. It is our steadfast belief that organizations of all types, whether institutions of higher learning or employers operating in the private or public sectors, benefit by reaching out to welcome individuals of different genders, ethnicities, religious beliefs, and/or sexual orientations/identifications into their communities. The organizations benefit by opening themselves up to a broader range of ideas and a deeper understanding of their clients/customers resulting in more effective problem management and enhanced productivity. In turn, the economy as a whole will produce greater levels of growth. 

The benefits of promoting diversity and inclusiveness in individual organizations can only be achieved if the environments in which these organizations exist are also welcoming, accessible, inclusive, equitable, free from harassment, and protective of the rights of individuals. Government through their legislative powers are vehicles by which a community expresses its openness to diversity and establishes its protections for individuals from any and all backgrounds and beliefs. 

Recent legislative actions in several states reminds us that a vital population in our nation is expressly being denied the full rights, benefits, and protections that other members of our society enjoy. 

NACE holds firmly that governments at all levels (federal, state, and local) should enact legislation that is supportive of individual rights and protects individuals whatever their gender, ethnicity, religious belief, or sexual orientation/identification. By contrast, NACE stands in opposition to legislation that stigmatizes one group of citizens by denying them the same protections as are afforded to the rest of the population. 

updated April 2016 

Equity in Conduct 

While most students attending career events are interested in and looking for jobs, we welcome students of all stages of career exploration to attend these events.  That means there will be students who attend career events who may not be actively looking for a job but may be practicing their networking skills, putting feelers out there for potential matches that they hadn’t considered before, and/or may have non-obvious interests in internships or other roles.  We expect all employers and recruiters to engage in conversation with all students who approach and show interest in their companies, even if that student’s interests or background are not a clear match for the employer or its available roles. 

Metropolitan State University of Denver is committed to creating and maintaining an environment that is free of alcohol abuse.  As a member of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), we abide by the Principles for Ethical Professional Conduct, a document that serves as the framework and foundation for ethical practices within the career planning and employment recruiting processes.  The Principles document explains why serving alcohol to job candidates is inappropriate and inadvisable. 

Policy for Employers

Due to COVID-19, if an internship is still to be on-site, it is the expectation that the organization/company is observing COVID-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), along with any federal, state or local restrictions, including those established by MSU Denver for the health and safety of the participating student(s).