Purpose The purpose of this online document is to provide a guide for all those involved in the recruiting and hiring process at MTD. This document takes you from identifying the staffing need, through preparing for the new employee's first day. It does not address programs designed for the new hire (such as training, mentoring, etc.) beyond the first day. The document is a useful resource for all MTD hiring processes, based on the guidelines for recruiting college hires and external experienced hires. It provides useful information and links to resources for hiring throughout MTD. "People are the life blood of our company. It's very important that we bring in young people who have fresh knowledge, high energy and lots of talent in order to keep this great thing we have going now...well into the future." — Lew Platt History This document was originally created to describe the hiring process used in the MTD Marketing department for fiscal years 1995, 1996, and 1997. In 1998, the document was updated in response to diversity recruiting and retention issues within MTD. The Diversity Recruiting Team was formed, and a subset of that group began to review the MTD hiring process. This subset group became the committee known as the MTD College/SEED Recruiting Committee. This committee made recommendations for changes in the approach to recruiting college and SEED students, and the appropriate changes were incorporated into the recruiting practices across MTD. Those changes are reflected in this document as they apply to recruiting and the hiring practices of MTD in general. Goals As an organization, MTD is pursuing methods to be an active contributor in and hiring top talent for Agilent Technologies. Given MTD's committment to strategic and creative hiring practices, this document will evolve accordingly. By using this document, MTD representatives will conduct consistent, legal, and fair hiring practices.