TwitterJobSearch and CollegeRecruiter.com Announce Partnership to Build College Student and Recent Graduate Recruitment Platform on Twitter

SHRM 2009 Annual Conference & Expo, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 29, 2009 — TwitterJobSearch, the first real time job search engine, announces a distribution partnership with award-winning college job board, CollegeRecruiter.com, to extend their reach into social media. The range of solutions from TwitterJobSearch and selected partners provide companies with a simple, cost effective way to manage their social recruitment efforts.
“CollegeRecruiter.com works hard to put the jobs of our employer clients at the fingertips of college students searching for internships and recent graduates hunting for entry-level jobs and social media is an increasingly important channel,” said Steven Rothberg, founder of CollegeRecruiter.com. “Our partnership with TwitterJobSearch.com, will facilitate the efforts of our clients to reach recent graduates through social media networks.”

Other organizations partnered with TwitterJobSearch include TMP Worldwide, Incisive Media, Euro RSCG Riley, Barkers, and Avature. This growing network, which also includes over 400 job board properties, ensures that businesses can access a comprehensive suite of services that suit their existing resources and capabilities. Companies looking to recruit can now automatically incorporate optimized placement on TwitterJobSearch into a range of other global or local print and digital activities, as well as take advantage of fully managed programs that deliver a complete social media recruitment solution.
“We’re tracking organizations in more than 17 countries that are already using social media sites like Twitter in their recruitment efforts;” commented Bill Fischer, Co-Founder of TwitterJobSearch. “Social media, paired with natural language search engine is the future of classified advertising and we’re building out a network of top tier partners like CollegeRecruiter.com to reach the graduate market. With over 270,000 unique job opportunities being published in the last thirty days, Twitter is likely to become a bigger online recruitment resource than Monster or Craigslist by the end of this year.”
About CollegeRecruiter.com
Founded in 1991 by Steven Rothberg, 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 has been named by Weddle’s as a Top Job Site for the last three years. For more information about CollegeRecruiter.com, please visit our Press Room or contact Steven Rothberg at Steven@CollegeRecruiter.com or 800-835-4989 x704.
About TwitterJobSearch
TwitterJobSearch is the new service from Workhound, the UK’s leading job search engine, providing contextual search solutions that analyse, organise and extend the reach of job opportunities. The TwitterJobSearch solution looks at the content of every tweet in context to determine its intent and break out filterable data. Getting beyond the 140 character limit of Twitter by going beyond the tweet,the technology also looks at biography information and crawls destination URLs to find additional information and context.
Workhound is Britain’s largest online job source, offering vertical search of more current UK job listings from job boards, employment services and company job postings than any other service. Additionally, with the UK’s largest database of real-time recruitment offerings, the company’s SalaryTrack product provides a precise view of current employment pay.
TwitterJobSearch, Workhound and SalaryTrack are all products of WorkDigital Ltd. TwitterJobSearch.com is not associated with Twitter Inc.
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