Explores the challenges and opportunities involved in recruitment. It shows how a library job can be more than just employment, teaching students important responsibilities and life-skills, covers the entire scope of a student's tenure at an academic library, from bringing new hires on board and training them to disciplining student employees and the unpleasant but sometimes necessary task of firing, and offers mentoring advice for helping students navigate the cultural contrasts, irregular hours, and other day-to-day issues faced by young people away from home for the first time.