CollegeRecruiter.com Wins 2008 Weddle’s Users Choice Awards for Best Job Boards (February 7, 2008 Press Release)

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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