This document contains three papers from a symposium on recruitment and training. "College Choice: The State of Marketing and Effective Student Recruitment Strategies" (Fredrick Muyia Nafukho, Michael F. Burnett) reports on a study of the recruitment strategies used by Louisiana State University's admissions office and College of Agriculture that identified student financial aid, geographic location, mail sent to prospective students, campus visitation programs, and outreach programs as the most efficient student recruitment practices. "The Perceived Influence of Industry-Sponsored Credentials on Recruitment and Training in the Information Technology Industry" (Kenneth R. Bartlett, T. Marshall Egan, Minu Ipe, Sujin Kim, Yuwen Liu) summarizes a study in which a sample of 33 senior human resource executives from large U.S. firms and 423 of their information technology (IT) employees were surveyed regarding the influence of industry-sponsored credentials on recruitment and training in the IT industry. "The Role of Training and Development in Newspaper Recruitment Advertisements" (Kenneth R. Bartlett, Harriett R. Porter) discusses a study that compared newspaper job advertisements from three major U.S. metropolitan areas for 1-week periods in 1991 and 2001 to determine whether the use of references to training and development as a benefit of employment is increasing. All three papers include substantial bibliographies. (MN)