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MINNEAPOLIS, MN, April 13, 2009 - CollegeRecruiter.com, the leading job board for college students hunting for internships and recent graduates looking for entry level jobs and other career opportunities, announced today that it has become one of the first job boards and the first college job board to create a fully functional, mobile web site at CollegeRecruiter.mobi.

"We decided a few years ago that the future of the Internet was mobile, but we felt until recently that the significant investment in building and maintaining a second version of our web site was not yet worth it," said Steven Rothberg, founder of CollegeRecruiter.com. "We knew that the mobile web had reached critical mass when Nielson Media reported that more than 40 million U.S. residents access the web on their cell phones. And given that our primary audience are college students, recent graduates, and alumni, we also knew that a higher percentage of our tech savvy audience would be mobile web users than the audience for general job boards or the niche boards which target by industry or geography."

Visitors to the CollegeRecruiter.mobi mobile job board will find a fully functional job board. All of the articles, blogs, job postings, and other content on CollegeRecruiter.com also run on CollegeRecruiter.mobi. Many other job boards which claim to be mobile, however, aren't truly mobile because candidates who find job postings of interest on those other sites aren't able to apply to the jobs right away. Instead, their users first must find the job on the mobile site, then email a link to the job to themselves, then go to a computer, and then apply to the job. "CollegeRecruiter.mobi is truly mobi," said Rothberg. "Candidates search the job database on their cell phones just like they're on their computers. They read the job postings on their mobiles just like they're on their computers. And they can apply to the job postings on their mobiles just like they're on their computers. There's no need to email a link. If a job is posted at 9:00am and they find it at 9:10am, they can apply to it at 9:10am and be the first candidate to apply rather than emailing it to themselves and then not being able to do anything until they can get to their computer."

Candidates understand that a delay of a day or two or even hours can make the difference between landing that all important first interview or being put into the black hole of an applicant tracking system. Those who apply early stand a better chance of being hired than those who apply later, and the CollegeRecruiter.mobi mobile job board makes it both possible and easy to apply first. In these difficult economic times, every edge matters and CollegeRecruiter.com is thrilled to be at the leading edge of helping college students, recent graduates, and alumni get every edge they deserve.

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 April 13, 2009 at 12:03 PM | Leave a Comment (0)

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN, April 8, 2009 - In response to recent reports that job seekers are struggling to find jobs, CollegeRecruiter.com compiled lists of the five best and worst states for finding internships and entry level jobs. The data was gathered through a state-by-state search on the site; the lists will be updated every month to help students and entry level job candidates know how many opportunities are available to them and in which states. The results? Very encouraging.

"We were very pleased to see that almost every state, large and small, recorded significant increases in the number of internships and entry-level job openings," said Steven Rothberg, Founder of CollegeRecruiter.com job board. "There has certainly been a lot of doom-and-gloom related to the economy over the past year but an increase in the number of advertised job openings means that more employers are finding it difficult to attract the talent they need to fill the openings they have. Historically, increased entry-level hiring is one of the earliest signs that an economy in recession is recovering."

The states with the largest number of internship and entry-level job listings on CollegeRecruiter.com in April are:

Internships

Entry Level Jobs

Sparsely populated states have the smallest number of internship and entry-level job listings on the site. They rank for April as follows:

Internships

Entry Level Jobs

Other states with a lot of internships and entry-level jobs are:

• Illinois - 764 internships (up nine percent from 700 in March) and 3,895 entry level jobs (virtually unchanged from 3,907 in March);
• Massachusetts - 757 internships (up 13 percent from 671 in March) and 3,247 entry level jobs (up seven percent from 3,046 in March); and
• Ohio - 634 internships (up 31 percent from 483 in March) and 4,160 entry level jobs (up 15 percent from 3,602 in March).

The metro area with the largest number of postings again was the Washington, D.C. area, including Maryland and Virginia, with 10,421 combined listings. That's virtually unchanged from the 10,406 combined listings in March.

In addition to job and internship postings, CollegeRecruiter.com also has numerous blogs where job seekers and students can find useful hints and tips for how to manage their careers or job searches, how to write winning resumes and cover letters, or how to prepare and pay for college.

Note: These lists will be updated at the beginning of each month, so please keep checking back at our Press Room page.

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 April 8, 2009 at 11:59 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN, April 7, 2009 - In response to recent reports that job seekers are struggling to find jobs, CollegeRecruiter.com compiled lists of the five best and worst states for finding internships and entry level jobs. The data was gathered through a state-by-state search on the site; the lists will be updated every month to help students and entry level job candidates know how many opportunities are available to them and in which states.

The states with the largest number of internship and entry-level job listings on CollegeRecruiter.com in April are:

Internships

Entry Level Jobs

Sparsely populated states have the smallest number of internship and entry-level job listings on the site. They rank for April as follows:

Internships

Entry Level Jobs

Some other states that have a lot of internships and entry level jobs are:

• Illinois - 764 internships (up 8% from 700 in March) and 3,895 entry level jobs (down .3% from 3,907 in March)
• Massachusetts - 757 internships (up 11% from 671 in March) and 3,247 entry level jobs (up 6% from 3,046 in March)
• Virginia - 714 internships (up 26% from 530 in March) and 3,552 entry level jobs (up 3% from 3454 in March)
• Ohio - 634 internships (up 24% from 483 in March) and 4,160 entry level jobs (up 13% from 3,602 in March)

This month, the Washington, D.C. area, including Maryland and Virginia, more than 10,400 combined listings:

• Washington, D.C. - 1,011 internships (up 33% from 680 in March) and 2,089 entry level jobs (down 28% from 2,914 in March)
• Maryland - 494 internships (up 22% from 387 in March) and 2,561 entry level jobs (up 5% from 2,441 in March)
• Virginia - 714 internships (up 26% from 530 in March) and 3,552 entry level jobs(up 3% from 3454 in March)

In addition to job and internship postings, CollegeRecruiter.com also has several blogs where job seekers and students can find useful hints and tips for how to manage their careers or job searches, how to write winning resumes and cover letters, or how to prepare and pay for college.

Note: These lists will be updated at the beginning of each month, so please keep checking back at our Press Room page.

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 April 7, 2009 at 11:55 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

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With only 64.1 percent of college students and recent graduates believing that it will take them three or fewer months to find a job if they were to start looking for a new job today, their pessimism is significantly stronger than it was in March when 73.5 percent expected to find a new job within three months or even February when 65 percent expected to find a new job within three months.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 7, 2008 - College students and recent graduates are again pessimistic about the prospects they face in the job market. The candidates swung from optimistic to pessimistic in January and February, back to optimistic in March, and back again to pessimistic this month. In February, for example, only 65 percent expected to find a new job within three months but by March that percentage had increased to 73.5 percent. Yet the continuing flat stock market, subprime mortgage scandals, fears of recession, and uncertainty in the political arena seem to be weighing heavily on the minds of college students searching for internships and recent graduates hunting for entry level jobs and other career opportunities.

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?" The results have been:

• November - 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.
• December - 74 percent 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• March - 74 percent expected that it would take them only three or fewer months but over 12 percent believed that it would take them longer than a year.
• April - 64 percent expected that it would take them only three or fewer months but only 5 percent believed that it would take them longer than a year.

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

"We were disappointed 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 again pessimistic about their ability to find a new job quickly," said Steven Rothberg, President and Founder of CollegeRecruiter.com. "We are, however, not surprised. News that the nation had shed 80,000 jobs over the previous month was announced just days before we conducted our poll. The dismal job market news can only make a tough job market seem worse to those who are struggling to find an internship, entry level job, or other career opportunity."

CollegeRecruiter.com updates 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 April 7, 2009 at 11:52 AM | Leave a Comment (0)