The Collegiate Employment Research Institute (CERI) generated this report from employers currently seeking college talent through their interactions with college and university career services offices. Nearly 200 career service centers from around the country invited their employers to participate in this study. More than 4,730 employers provided information useful for understanding recruiting trends and practices. Also included is information from respondents recruiting talent for full-time positions, internships, and co-ops. Key findings from 2015-16 are presented in this research brief. In "Recruiting Trends 2014-2015," CERI laid out a discussion about the problems with zero (nil) responses on key benchmarks. This year, CERI went to great lengths in designing the survey to reduce the sources of interpretation error. Seven assessment measures were included in the survey: five for full-time hiring programs and two for internship and co-op programs. The belief is that these improvements provided better statistics.