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Campus Collaboration: Approving College Placement Drives
How colleges request a campus drive with your company, what each request tells you, and how to approve one with a chosen date and visiting HR — or reject it with a reason.
Updated 19 Aug 2026
Short answer: Campus Collaboration is your inbox for colleges asking you to recruit on their campus. Each request names the role, how many students, the batch and the dates they can host. You approve with a date and a visiting HR, or reject with a reason.
🏫 Requests come to you. You do not raise them — the college's placement officer does.
What a request tells you
| Field | What it means |
|---|---|
| Campus request from | The college raising it |
| For Role | The position they want you to recruit for |
| No. of Students | How many they expect to put in front of you |
| Passing Year | Which graduating batch |
| Dates Available | The dates the college can host — you pick one |
| Facilities | What the campus provides: rooms, systems, internet and so on |
Read Facilities before agreeing to anything technical. A drive that depends on an online assessment needs enough machines and a reliable connection, and this is where you find out whether the college has them.
Approving a request
Approving asks for two things:
- Selected Date — one of the dates the college offered
- Visiting HR Details — who from your side is attending, so the college knows who to expect
Both reach the college's placement officer, so treat the visiting HR details as something a stranger will use to find your colleague on the day.
Rejecting a request
Rejection asks for a reason. Colleges plan their placement calendar months ahead, and a reason such as "no vacancies for this batch, please approach again in the next cycle" is far more useful to them than a bare no — and keeps the relationship open for when you do have roles.
If the list is empty
Seeing "No campus requests found." simply means no college has approached you yet. It is not a fault. Colleges tend to approach companies whose profiles look complete and whose job posts are live, so keeping both in good order is what generates requests.
How this relates to Campus Recruitment on a job
These are two different things and are easy to confuse:
| Campus Recruitment toggle | Campus Collaboration | |
|---|---|---|
| Where | Step 1 of the posting form | Its own sidebar page |
| What it does | Opens one job to campus hiring channels | Handles a college's request for an on-site drive |
| Who starts it | You | The college |
| Cost | Free on the default rate | Free |
Where to go next
- How to Post a Job or Internship — where the Campus Recruitment toggle lives
- Job Fairs — the other multi-company hiring channel