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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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. 

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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 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.

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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 »

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. 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 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 »

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 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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