Microsoft has just put the finishing touches on its Students to Business (S2B) portal, an initiative aimed at pairing U.S. college students working toward IT careers with companies who are looking to fill entry-level IT positions. The S2B portal was developed with the help of Experience Inc., the developer of a popular Web-based college recruiting site, eProNet. view article »

New York Times forms strategic alliance with AfterCollege. view article »

Most high school seniors expect to work this summer and while in college, picking schools in-state to stay close to home and family. view article »

AfterCollege, Inc., the career network for college students and alumni, has expanded its posting service to 3,650 academic departments and student groups at over 1,000 U.S. colleges and universities. view article »

AfterCollege, Inc. announced it has been granted Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) certification by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) and by its affiliate, the Northern California Supplier Development Council (NCSDC). view article »

PreVisor has introduced a new line of unproctored cognitive assessment designed to measure verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning in graduate candidates. The GCI-Graduate provides employers with a means of identifying individuals who have the  intellectual ability and potential to succeed in the workplace regardless of background or degree.

 

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Two college oriented job boards are collaborating to provide crossposting opportunities for employers seeking business school students and grads.

AfterCollege, Inc., a career network for college students and alumni, and MBA Focus, LLC, provider of recruitment technology to graduate business schools, will now be able to crosspost listings to each other.

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AfterCollege has launched a low-cost alternative to custom email campaigns. Employers can reach students and alumni by posting featured announcements in weekly targeted email digests that are sent to over 200,000 job seekers.

“We rolled out our Featured Announcement email product in response to shrinking recruitment budgets and in order to make it as easy as possible for employers to share entry level opportunities that they would normally not share this way," says  Roberto Angulo, CEO of AfterCollege.

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Four out of five college students and grads are having a tough time finding a job, says a new survey by AfterCollege.

Less than five percent of the 670 students and alums said finding work was easy. Of that group, the most effective method was networking followed by applying to jobs online.

 

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AfterCollege has added new scholarship funds in 2009 for college students pursuing degrees in allied health, engineering, and critical-need languages. These scholarships are in addition to AfterCollege’s current nursing scholarships. view article »

Your college grad still without a job? Then point them to this list of 20 cities that AfterCollege says have the most number of employers posting entry-level jobs.

The list was compiled by taking a snapshot of entry-level jobs and internships currently available on AfterCollege and on AfterCollege career networks. Rankings were determined based on the number of unique employers posting opportunities in each city, versus taking the number of opportunities posted per city, in order to

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AfterCollege has teamed up with JustJobs to provide more entry-level jobs and internships to college students and recent graduates. JustJobs will send over 250,000 jobs in areas such as sales, finance and information technology to AfterCollege. view article »

Washington, D.C. is the best area in the U.S. for newly minted electrical engineers to begin their careers, says AfterCollege. The career site for recent grads and students looking ahead, AfterCollege surveyed the entry-level jobs in its network, counted jobs listed on newspaper sites to see where the most employers work, then weighted those results with salary averages, apartment costs and data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. view article »

AfterCollege has launched "Answers," a social recruiting tool that taps into employers' existing human capital to bridge relationships between companies and college students. The tool was designed as a recessionary recruiting service to mobilize people within companies to begin a mutually beneficial dialogue with students.

"Answers" allows employees at any company to locate their school on AfterCollege. They are then asked to join their relevant department or group career network and to update their profile with their current employer. With their identity established, employees can begin answering questions posed by students within their career network. College students often have job search questions but limited resources to get those answers. The tool provides a private, user-friendly forum for these queries.

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Career Athletes, a career education and resource provider for graduating and alumni collegiate athletes, is launching its first television and digital media campaign this fall. 

Coinciding with the height of the college football season, Career Athletes is targeting former and current college athletes via an integrated media campaign, including television, digital and social media extensions.

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AfterCollege has announced the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Career Services is now using AfterCollege services. Students at the university are now able to explore and search jobs relevant to their major on the career center’s web site.

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