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| CareerBuilder.com Partners With AfterCollege to Bring More Job Resources To College Graduates |
CareerBuilder.com's Job Listings to Appear on AfterCollege's Exclusive Network
Of University Academic Department and Student Group Job Boards
CHICAGO, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- CareerBuilder.com, the smarter
recruitment resource for finding better candidates and jobs, and AfterCollege,
the nation's leading provider of targeted college recruitment and branding
services, today announced a strategic partnership that will create one of the
largest targeted college recruiting networks in North America.
CareerBuilder.com will deliver over 400,000 job postings from 25,000 of the
nation's top employers to nearly one million discipline and diversity specific
college students in the AfterCollege Network. Job listings will be available
for undergraduate and graduate students through job boards at academic
departments and student groups.
The partnership comes at the right time. A 2003 CareerBuilder.com survey
found 65 percent of hiring managers plan to hire college graduates this year.
However, of that 65 percent, 48 percent plan to hire less than ten.
"Work experience is key in this highly competitive job market," said Matt
Ferguson, chief operating officer for CareerBuilder.com. "This partnership
significantly expands job resources for college graduates so they can gain the
experience needed to build a solid career path. The partnership also provides
employers wishing to reach specific subsets of entry-level talent with the
benefit of targeted exposure on AfterCollege's extensive network of academic
departments and groups."
AfterCollege maintains exclusive partnerships with academic departments
and student group organizations at top universities throughout the United
States. These include top public and private colleges and universities,
HBCUs, and community colleges.
"This is a truly synergistic partnership that combines job information
from CareerBuilder.com's far-reaching network of newspaper partners and web
sites with AfterCollege's unparalleled access to hard-to-reach college
students," said Roberto Angulo, CEO of AfterCollege. "Given the current job
market, it's important that we give our students access to a larger pool of
jobs while allowing CareerBuilder.com clients to target their listings by
discipline or diversity group -- greatly increasing their percentage of
attracting qualified candidates."
CareerBuilder.com combines the power of online and print with the 130
newspapers of its partners Gannett Co., Tribune Company and Knight Ridder.
The company also partners with national, industry, diversity and local Web
sites across the country.
CareerBuilder.com offers smart online tools to connect candidates with
employers. The company offers a confidential Personal Search Agent that will
hunt for job opportunities in expressed areas of interest and automatically
email them to job seekers. CareerBuilder.com also gives job seekers the
choice to search by industry, location and job type, and provides online
career assessments, coaching for interviews and tips for salary negotiations.
For companies looking for top performers, CareerBuilder.com offers over seven
million resumes, easy job postings, online career fairs, a bilingual version
of its site and other services.
The Survey
The new CareerBuilder survey, "Life at Work 2003," was conducted from
February 20 to March 3, 2003 of more than 2,600 survey respondents including
290 hiring managers. To collect data for the survey, CareerBuilder
commissioned SurveySite to use an e-mail methodology whereby individuals who
are members of SurveySite Web Panel were randomly selected and approached by
e-mail invitation to participate in the online survey. The results of this
survey are accurate within +/- 1.9 percent.
About AfterCollege, Inc.
AfterCollege, Inc. is the nation's leader in providing employers with
targeted college recruitment and branding services and is the only company
that allows employers to recruit directly from specific academic departments
and diversity student groups. AfterCollege has developed an exclusive network
of over 1000 partnering academic department and student group chapters as well
as a proprietary database of over 20,000 partnering faculty and student
officer contacts at the nation's top universities that accepts job postings
and emails from AfterCollege employers. Because AfterCollege works directly
with these faculty and student group officers, AfterCollege provides its
employers with direct access to entire departments and groups -- from freshmen
to graduating PhDs.
AfterCollege represents the most intuitive and cost-effective means of
recruiting the nation's most highly sought after students. With a proven track
record of saving clients up to 70% on their average cost per college hire, a
foundation of loyal Fortune 500 clients and repeated praise from leading HR
publications, AfterCollege is looking to redefine the future of college
recruiting.
About CareerBuilder.com
CareerBuilder.com is a leading online source for maximizing recruitment
dollars and optimizing job searches with superior products, customer service
and technology. With a unique combination of national, local and niche
audiences, CareerBuilder.com makes it easy for recruiters to reach the most
qualified candidates with industry-leading market research data and support.
Job seekers can search for the right job from more than 400,000 continuously
updated postings, representing more than 25,000 of the top employers in
virtually every industry, field and location. Together with Gannett Co., Inc.
(NYSE: GCI), Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB), and Knight Ridder, Inc. (NYSE: KRI),
CareerBuilder.com includes the Web's top newspaper sites - the most trusted
employment sources in recruiting. For more information about
CareerBuilder.com products and services, call 888-670-TEAM or visit
http://www.careerbuilder.com .
Media Contacts
Jennifer Sullivan Brian Heifferon
(773) 527-1164 (415) 495-7438
jennifer.sullivan@careerbuilder.com brian@aftercollege.com
SOURCE CareerBuilder.com
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CONTACT:
Jennifer Sullivan of CareerBuilder.com,
+1-773-527-1164, jennifer.sullivan@careerbuilder.com , or Brian
Heifferon of AfterCollege, Inc., +1-415-495-7438,
brian@aftercollege.com
