profile updated Apr 17, 2008, 3:42 PM
From a single site - AfterCollege.com - the company today is a career network specializing in recruitment at the college and alumni level. It works directly with academic departments and student groups at some 2,100 of the 4,100 U.S. colleges. Through these partners, job openings are advertised and resumes collected.
It also maintains a proprietary database of over 19,000 faculty and student group contacts. AfterCollege can deliver targeted employer content to a diverse audience of students, offering them mostly entry-level jobs.
The company's partnerships include targeted fields such as healthcare space in which it has partnerships with 39 state student nursing associations and over 1,500 schools of nursing, law enforcement, government and teaching. The company also has key partnerships with firms such as Bernard Hodes, Adicio and CareerBuilder.
According to web site thealarmclock.com, the company, which was funded through angel investment, started earning revenue in 2001 and became cash-flow positive in 2002. AfterCollege also says it has been growing at an average rate of 75 percent per year.
News & Updates 
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AfterCollege to Host Forum for Entry Level Jobs Creation (Marketwire)
AfterCollege, a career network for students and recent graduates, is hosting a jobs creation forum in San Francisco
The forum will be held on February 26 in downtown San Francisco. For more information on the forum email info@aftercollege.com.
Feb 19, 2010, 2:24 PM -
AfterCollege Partners WIth Philadelphia Media Group (AfterCollege)
AfterCollege, the career network for college students and alumni, has teamed up with Greater Philadelphia Media, the largest suburban website in Southeastern Pennsylvania, to bring more local entry-level job opportunities to college students and recent graduates.Employers advertising on the website will be able to reach over 2.8 million qualified candidates in the AfterCollege network.
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AfterCollege Donates To Haiti Earthquake Relief (AfterCollege)
AfterCollege will donate a portion of all January ecommerce revenue to the American Red Cross to help victims of the Haiti earthquake. Jan 18, 2010 -
AfterCollege Launches Service to Connect Students and Employers (AfterCollege)
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.
Nov 2, 2009, 12:01 AM -
CKR Offers Virtual Events Solution (PR Web)
Global recruitment advertising and marketing agency CKR Interactive, is now offering a full suite of virtual events solutions under the name e-Vents.
Fully customizable to meet a client's needs, e-Vents can be used for online career/job fairs, open houses or networking events.
e-Vents is made possible via a joint partnership between CKR Interactive's account, creative and interactive teams, InXpo and AfterCollege.
Sep 21, 2009, 4:00 PM -
Top 10 Metros To Start An Electrical Engineering Career (AfterCollege)
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. Sep 3, 2009, 9:46 AM -
AfterCollege Helping Students, Grads With Insurance (www.aftercollege.com)
AfterCollege is partnering with Next Generation Insurance Group, LLC to offer insurance options to students and recent graduates.
Yound adults will find multiple insurance options for auto, health, home and rentals at GradGuard.com.
Aug 10, 2009, 12:49 PM -
JustJobs and AfterCollege Team Up (Chad Boonsupa)
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. Jul 22, 2009, 4:22 PM -
AfterCollege Now Tweets Entry-Level Jobs and Internships with TwitterJobSearch (Chad Boonsupa)
AfterCollege has teamed up with TwitterJobSearch to syndicate its entry-level job opportunities and internships on Twitter. As part of the collaboration, AfterCollege will send select broad-appeal jobs from its network to TwitterJobSearch. Jul 15, 2009 -
Chicago Tops For Entry-Level Job Seekers (AfterCollege)
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
May 28, 2009
Products & Services
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Job Postings
At $325 for a single post, AfterCollege is about as pricey as any of the major job boards, but it reaches a market of college graduates and the soon-to-be grads. Employers can target specific specialties, academic departments, schools and even academic honor groups. -
Custom e-mail Campaigns
Push your promotion directly to students and faculty who have signed on to receive career information from AfterCollege.