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Minneapolis, Minnesota -- July 31, 2006 -- CollegeRecruiter.com's strategic partnership with RecruiTV will allow employers to transform their text-only job posting ads on CollegeRecruiter.com and the 15,000 niche career sites in its network into multimedia recruitment ads that will allow entry level job seekers to read about job openings but also to learn about the employer, its employees, and its culture through the sights and sounds made possible through video.

"One of the welcome challenges of working with Gen Y candidates is that their technical skills, knowledge, and expectations surpass those of any other age group," said Steven Rothberg, President and Founder of CollegeRecruiter.com, the highest traffic career site used by job hunting students and recent graduates and the employers who want to hire them. "The students and recent graduates who use our site understand that they should choose an employment opportunity based upon their competencies, interests, and values. Traditional text-only job postings are almost always written by the employer with only the needs and wants of the employer stated. These requirements and job duties may allow candidates to determine if the position lines up with their competencies but almost never allow candidates to determine if the position also lines up with their interests and values. Video does that because it forces and enables employers to showcase important factors such as their place of work, the team members with whom the candidates will work, and the culture of the organization. While some employers are starting to add recruitment videos to their own web sites, virtually none have been able to add those same videos to their job posting ads on career sites such as CollegeRecruiter.com because the process was so difficult and the cost so high. Until now. RecruiTV makes it easy, fast, and inexpensive. We're thrilled to be working with them."

"We're excited to provide a leading technology and video community platform for CollegeRecruiter.com employers and its community of students and college graduates. The use and creation of on-line video has arrived with broadband technology and the widespread use of video in the marketplace today. Candidates and employers benefit tremendously from the use of recruitment videos because they bring a more personal element to the recruiting lifecycle", said Peter J. Altieri, Chief Executive Officer of RecruiTV by Wetjello.

Although the partnership between CollegeRecruiter.com and Wetjello was just implemented, three leading employers of college students and recent graduates have already upgraded their job postings on the CollegeRecruiter.com by adding video: Central Intelligence Agency, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and RadioShack.

About Wetjello/RecruiTV

Wetjello/RecruiTV is empowering employers and candidates to utilize video as a key component in the on-line recruitment process. Wetjello/RecruiTV develops and provides state-of-the-art online video recruitment solutions and services. The company is privately owned and based in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. More information about Wetjello/RecruiTV is available at http://www.wetjello.com/AboutUs.aspx.

About CollegeRecruiter.com

CollegeRecruiter.com is the highest traffic career site used by job hunting students and recent graduates and the employers who want to hire them. The CollegeRecruiter.com network of career sites is used by 5,000,000 visitors per month to find part-time positions, summer jobs, internships and career opportunities. CollegeRecruiter.com features tens of thousands of job openings and thousands of pages of employment-related articles and Ask the Experts questions and answers. Further information about CollegeRecruiter.com is available at http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com/pages/press-room.php.

CONTACT INFO:
CollegeRecruiter.com
Steven Rothberg
3109 W 50 St Ste 121
Minneapolis, MN 55410-2102
USA
Phone: 800-835-4989
Fax: 702-537-2227
Steven@CollegeRecruiter.com
http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com

Posted by CollegeRecruiter on July 31, 2006 at 1:00 PM | Leave a Comment (0)

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Minneapolis, Minnesota -- July 28, 2006 -- Practical work experience is a must in today's job market. College graduates who come armed with practical experience in their majors as well as quality education will rise to the top of the list of candidates for the best paying jobs. Bearing this in mind, employers should take advantage of the opportunity to grab those rising stars early on and cultivate the best employees for their companies through the use of internships and cooperative education programs. To help employers achieve these goals, CollegeRecruiter.com has released a free white paper entitled The Best Practices for Creating and Maintaining a Successful Internship Program.

The purpose of this new white paper is to help employers get the most out of their college and university hiring pipelines by helping them to build and maintain a successful internship program. By the end of the white paper, employers will know how to get the most out of their interns and how to instill in them a desire to have a career with the employer's company over any other. In addition, employers will learn how to keep their pipeline flowing, generating new talent year after year. In short, the white paper will explain to employers why successful internship programs are all about recruiting permanent employees.

Internships and cooperative education programs (co-ops) are an invaluable way for employers and students to "check each other out" and see if they would be a good fit for each other. More than 75 percent of respondents in a recent survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) said that their primary reason for having internship programs is to fuel their college recruiting program. "Bringing in students directly from college is key to having a good, sustainable pipeline of employment," Lonnie Pacelli, human resources consultant in Sammamish, WA, told John Rossheim in his article "Workforce Insights: Hard-Driving Internships Are Key to Entry-Level Recruitment." Internships are, for lack of better description, temp-to-perm relationships.

Internships can be either paid or unpaid and may or may not offer college credit for participation. Co-ops, on the other hand, are almost always paid and tend to have longer durations. While internships are generally done during the summer months when students can work full-time without worrying about homework or class schedules, they can be performed during the fall and spring semesters. Co-ops are more of a 50-50 split between full-time education and full-time employment and, unlike internships, co-ops can last for three to four years. Either way, students and employers benefit from the opportunity to learn about each other and decide whether or not a long term working relationship is likely to succeed.

Employers which are able to successfully convert a high percentage of their interns into permanent employees offer quality internship programs. Those programs are designed, in part, to cause the intern to want to work for the employer permanently. Companies that use interns like temps to "pick up the slack" will not be as successful as those employers that give interns real responsibilities and real tasks to perform. Providing a real experience to your interns tells them that you valued them.

Another way to succeed in persuading interns is with benefits. Many companies offer interns benefits such as paid holidays, relocation assistance and planned social activities. Today's college graduates are looking for jobs that pay well, offer good benefits like 401(k), paid vacation and generous maternity leaves. If it is made known to them during the recruitment process what they can expect, the odds of getting quality candidates right away increase dramatically. But don't focus solely on recruiting students for internships; plan ahead for when they are ready to enter the work world full time. "Organizations that have both a strong employment brand as well as a relationship with a variety of students on campuses tend over time to have greater success in getting students to say yes to their offers," says Kevin Wheeler in his article "Build a Candidate Pipeline Through Internships."

Copies of The Best Practices for Creating and Maintaining a Successful Internship Program are available at no charge from CollegeRecruiter.com.

About CollegeRecruiter.com

CollegeRecruiter.com is the highest traffic career site used by job hunting students and recent graduates and the employers who want to hire them. The CollegeRecruiter.com network of career sites is used by 5,000,000 visitors per month to find part-time positions, summer jobs, internships and career opportunities. CollegeRecruiter.com features tens of thousands of job openings and thousands of pages of employment-related articles and Ask the Experts questions and answers. Further information about CollegeRecruiter.com is available at http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com/pages/press-room.php.

CONTACT INFO:
CollegeRecruiter.com
Steven Rothberg
3109 W 50 St Ste 121
Minneapolis, MN 55410-2102
USA
Phone: 800-835-4989
Fax: 702-537-2227
Steven@CollegeRecruiter.com
http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com

Posted by CollegeRecruiter on July 28, 2006 at 12:56 PM | Leave a Comment (0)

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 26, 2006 - Social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster are amongst the most popular sites on-line, especially amongst high school and college students. Unlike most sites where even regular visitors spend at most minutes a week and look at a handful of pages, visitors to social networking sites often invest hours a day at the sites, view hundreds of pages, and disclose a tremendous amount of information about themselves and their friends. More and more employers are using sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster as part of their background checking process. Yet even though colleges, career counselors and others have been getting their message through to many students and other job seekers that sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Friendster can be dangerous to those who are looking for employment, it has not yet registered with many employers that social networking sites also pose dangers for employers. At the OnRec Expo 2006 Global Summit for Online Recruitment on September 12, 2006, CollegeRecruiter.com founder Steven Rothberg will demystify social networking sites and demonstrate the tremendous risks and opportunities they present to employers.

The aim of OnRec Expo 2006 is to bring delegates interested in online recruitment from the U.S. together with delegates from around the world, who share a common interest, provide stimulating content and debate, alongside an Expo that will provide a unique mix of indigenous suppliers, as well as a fresh view from international suppliers that can supply the U.S. home market, or that can supply products and services in the local markets. Attendees will learn how online recruitment is developing and moving forward.

Attendees to Rothberg's nuts-and-bolts, humorous presentation about the dangers and opportunities presented to employers who use social networking sites, will learn about social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, and others. What are they? How are they used by candidates? Attendees will discover how a small but rapidly growing percentage of employers are using social networking sites as part of their recruiting process and understand why social networking sites are dangerous when used as part of a background checking process but present tremendous opportunities when used as part of the sourcing process.

About CollegeRecruiter.com

CollegeRecruiter.com is the highest traffic career site used by job-hunting students and recent graduates and the employers who want to hire them. Three million visitors per month use the CollegeRecruiter.com network of career sites to find part-time positions, summer jobs, internships and career opportunities. CollegeRecruiter.com features tens of thousands of job openings and thousands of pages of employment-related articles and Ask the Experts questions and answers. Further information about CollegeRecruiter.com is available at http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com/pages/press-room.php.

CONTACT INFO:

CollegeRecruiter.com

Steven Rothberg

3109 W 50 St Ste 121

Minneapolis, MN 55410-2102

USA

Phone: 800-835-4989

Fax: 702-537-2227

Steven@CollegeRecruiter.com

http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com

Posted by CollegeRecruiter on July 26, 2006 at 12:53 PM | Leave a Comment (0)