A Recruiter's Life: Hitting the Targets

There are few jobs in higher education as stressful as being a recruiter for American InterContinental University and the Career Education Corporation, according to former employees.

Sure, there are trips to the Bahamas, Cancun, and Hawaii for the company's top performers. But the company's recruiters, who are called admissions counselors, live in fear of missing their enrollment targets.

"People know that they have to enroll a certain number of students or they will lose their

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