FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Although 65 percent of college students and recent graduates believe that it would take them three or fewer months to find a job if they were to start looking for a new job today, their optimism is not quite as strong as it was in January when 69 percent expected to find a new job within three months or in December when 72 percent expected to find a new job within three months.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 11, 2008 - Due to factors such as the continuing flat stock market, subprime mortgage scandals, fears of recession, and uncertainty in the political arena, college students and recent graduates are increasingly pessimistic about the prospects they face in the job market.

CollegeRecruiter.com, the leading job board for college students searching for internships and recent graduates hunting for entry level jobs and other career opportunities, conducts a monthly poll in which candidates are asked, "If you were to start looking for a new job today, how many months would you expect it to take to find one?" In November, almost 75 percent of respondents expected that it would take them only three or fewer months to find a job and fewer than 13 percent believed that it would take them longer than a year. In December, almost as many candidates expected that it would take them only three or fewer months to find a job but only five percent believed that it would take them longer than a year. In January, 69 percent expected that it would take them only three or fewer months and slightly over eight percent believed that it would take them longer than a year. In February, 65 percent expected that it would take them only three or fewer months and almost six percent believed that it would take them longer than a year.

The results of the CollegeRecruiter.com Job Seeker Confidence Index for February 2008 were:

"We were quite pleased to see that the majority of college students and recent graduates who use CollegeRecruiter.com to find internships, entry level jobs, and other career opportunities were confident about their ability to find a new job quickly," said Steven Rothberg, President and Founder of CollegeRecruiter.com. "We are, however, disappointed that their confidence is waning. The slipping confidence is understandable given the economic, geopolitical, and domestic political uncertainties."

CollegeRecruiter.com will update the CollegeRecruiter.com Job Seeker Confidence Index on a monthly basis. For updates, visit the CollegeRecruiter.com Press Room page.

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About CollegeRecruiter.com

CollegeRecruiter.com is the leading job board for college students hunting for internships and recent graduates looking for entry level jobs and other career opportunities. CollegeRecruiter.com features hundreds of thousands of job openings and tens of thousands of pages of employment-related blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos. For more information, please visit http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com.

Contact Information for CollegeRecruiter.com:

Steven Rothberg
Steven@CollegeRecruiter.com
800-835-4989 x704

Posted by CollegeRecruiter on February 11, 2008 at 10:38 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

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For the second year in a row, CollegeRecruiter.com was selected from some 40,000 U.S. and 40,000 international job boards by job seekers, employers, and recruiters as one of the 30 best job boards. CollegeRecruiter.com was the only college job board to win the 2008 Weddle's Users Choice Award.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 7, 2008 -- WEDDLE's, the largest publisher of print guides to job boards, announced the winners of its 2008 User's Choice Awards. The only college job board to receive the Award was CollegeRecruiter.com, the leading job board for college students searching for internships and recent graduates hunting for entry level jobs and other career opportunities. These awards are the only recognition in the $6+ billion global online employment services industry where actual users such as job seekers, employers, and recruiters get to pick the winners.

"In today's challenging job market, it's important to know the All Stars of the job board community," said WEDDLE's Publisher Peter Weddle. "That's what these 2008 User's Choice Awards winners represent. Equally as important, they haven't been selected by a panel of pundits, but by the working men and women who use those sites to find jobs and hire new employees."

"We're truly honored to have been selected from so many sites and so many high quality sites," said CollegeRecruiter.com Founder Steven Rothberg. "In every nation and every niche, there are truly outstanding job boards serving the needs of job seekers, employers, and recruiters. To be recognized as one of the best of the best is a real testament to the skill and hard work of our team and the passion of our many users."

According to Weddle's, there are now over 80,000 employment-related job boards, half of which operate in the U.S. and half elsewhere around the world. The job board sites include stand alone enterprises like CollegeRecruiter.com and sites affiliated with newspapers and trade publications, professional associations and societies, college and trade school alumni organizations, radio and television stations, and a wide array of affinity groups. Like the Zagat restaurant guides, WEDDLE's publications and its annual User's Choice Awards help consumers make smart selections among all of those options.

Each year, the public is invited to visit the WEDDLE's Web-site and cast their ballots for their favorite job boards. The 30 sites with the most votes at the end of the year are declared the User's Choice Award winners. While clearly not a scientific survey, the poll does reflect the intensity of support sites enjoy among job seekers, employers and recruiters alike. A person has to take the time and make the effort to participate in the balloting, so those that do feel strongly about the sites they select.

One-third of the 2008 winners are general purpose job boards that serve a broad cross-section of professions, crafts, trades, industries and locations. The remaining two-thirds, including CollegeRecruiter.com, are niche sites that specialize in a specific industry, career field, or geographic location. All but one of the sites are based in the United States.

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About CollegeRecruiter.com

CollegeRecruiter.com is the leading job board for college students hunting for internships and recent graduates looking for entry level jobs and other career opportunities. CollegeRecruiter.com features hundreds of thousands of job openings and tens of thousands of pages of employment-related blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos. For more information, please visit http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com.

Contact Information for CollegeRecruiter.com:

Steven Rothberg
Steven@CollegeRecruiter.com
800-835-4989 x704

About WEDDLE's LLC

Since 1996, WEDDLE's has conducted ground-breaking research among both recruiters and job seekers on the Web. Its findings are widely regarded for their analytical rigor and often cited when identifying the best practices in online recruitment and job search. WEDDLE's research has often been reported in the media, both in the United States and around the world. In addition, WEDDLE's is the largest print publisher of guides to the 80,000+ employment-related sites currently operating on the Internet. The American Staffing Association has called WEDDLE's Publisher Peter Weddle, the "Zagat of the online employment industry."

Contact Information for WEDDLE'S:

Peter Weddle
Peter@Weddles.com
203-964-1888

Posted by CollegeRecruiter on February 7, 2008 at 10:34 AM | Leave a Comment (0)