CollegeRecruiter.com Offers Live, On-line Chat to Job Seekers: Job Seekers No Longer Need to Wait for Hours or Even Days for Answers to Questions (January 31, 2005 Press Release)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT INFO:
CollegeRecruiter.com
Steven Rothberg
3109 W 50 St Ste 121
Minneapolis, MN 55410-2102
USA
Phone: 800-835-4989
Fax: 702-537-2227
Steven@CollegeRecruiter.com
http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com

Minneapolis, Minnesota — January 31, 2005 – Since the Internet became commercially popular almost 10 years ago, users have been frustrated by how long it takes for them to receive responses to their emails to their favorite web sites. Even when they receive a reply, they’re often canned responses that have little to nothing to do with the question posed by the user.

Some of the biggest offenders of failing to treat users with the respect and attention they deserve have been Internet job boards, perhaps because many of those boards have looked upon job seekers simply as traffic and therefore not deserving of the same individualized attention as the employers who pay to advertise their job openings and search the resume banks. If Internet career site CollegeRecruiter.com has its way, however, that attitude will soon change for the better.

“Since we went live in 1996, we’ve always placed great importance on answering each and every email within two business days with a real response. But even though our responsiveness far exceeded that of most of our competitors, we still found that job seekers wanted faster answers,” said Steven Rothberg, President and Founder of Internet career site CollegeRecruiter.com. The solution was live, on-line chat. Now when a job seeker visits CollegeRecruiter.com, they can chat with a real, live customer service representative to find out how best to use the site or to ask career-related questions. The customer service representatives have been trained to provide concise answers to almost any such question. If they don’t have the training to answer the questions, they bring in experts who do.

Rothberg believes that providing more service is good business. “The candidates who are the most sought after by employers tend to be the candidates with the most choices. They can afford to be choosy and aren’t willing to accept less than excellent service from any organization with which they work. If they won’t tolerate inattentive service in a restaurant, then they also shouldn’t tolerate it from an Internet career site.” And now there’s no need.

About CollegeRecruiter.com

CollegeRecruiter.com is the highest traffic career site used by job hunting students and recent graduates and the employers who want to hire them. The CollegeRecruiter.com network of career sites is used by 5,000,000 visitors per month to find part-time positions, summer jobs, internships and career opportunities. CollegeRecruiter.com features tens of thousands of job openings and over 1,300 pages of employment-related articles and Ask the Experts questions and answers. Further information about CollegeRecruiter.com is available at http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com/pages/press-room.php.

My new book is out!

Visit my websitefor details on how you can buy your copy.

Jim Stroud and The Apprentice

I was the keynote speaker at the kick-off event for WebChallenge 2005. WebChallenge is an annual community service event supported by the TAG Foundation. The contest is designed to get Georgia high school students excited about using the Internet and learning about the latest technology through a hands-on design experience, all with a little help from Georgia’s high-tech business community. Students who participate in WebChallenge develop web sites that are intended for use by a non-profit organization selected by the WebChallenge committee.

During the course of my presentation I met Velshonya Jackson, an exemplary student who impressed me so much that I have accepted her as my apprentice. During the year of 2005 (and beyond), it will be my priveledge and pleasure to encourage and assist Velshonya in the pursuit of her dreams. Expect to hear more from this remarkable person in the near future.

If you don’t stop, you’ll go blind…

After joining the Bank of Ireland as CEO, Michael Soden issues a dictate: No porn surfing on the job. His next dictate: The IT department is to be outsourced to Hewlett-Packard. Shortly after the outsourcing deal goes through, IT staffers, now employed by HP, discover porn on Soden’s computer. Soden resigns, leaving the bank and HP scrapping over who should pay his severance, estimated at $5 million.

SOURCE: Business 2.0′s The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business

Career Sites Aren’t Just About Jobs Anymore: CollegeRecruiter.com Increases Access to Continuing Education Opportunities (January 28, 2005 Press Release)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT INFO:
CollegeRecruiter.com
Steven Rothberg
3109 W 50 St Ste 121
Minneapolis, MN 55410-2102
USA
Phone: 800-835-4989
Fax: 702-537-2227
Steven@CollegeRecruiter.com
http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com

Minneapolis, Minnesota — January 28, 2005 – The trend toward a more educated workforce is alive and well. Many college and university students and recent graduates who are actively seeking employment are also seeking information about how to continue their education. Those with associate degrees from two year schools are looking at bachelor’s degrees from four year schools and those with bachelor’s degrees are looking to trade up even further by obtaining a master’s degree.

“Since we launched in 1996, we’ve always had at least some information on our site about continuing education opportunities,” said Steven Rothberg, President and Founder of Internet career site CollegeRecruiter.com. “But 18 months ago we saw a significant increase in the number of requests for more and better targeted information about continuing education options.” After the School Finder section of CollegeRecruiter.com was enhanced, the number of requests jumped from a handful per month to a handful per day, an increase of about 3,000 percent. In December 2004, CollegeRecruiter.com began to market its School Finder separately, both to existing users and to new users. According to Rothberg, “CollegeRecruiter.com is now delivering information about continuing education opportunities to about 50 candidates per day, an increase of about 30,000 percent in just 18 months!”

Rothberg believes that the trend toward more education is driven largely by economics. “Those with degrees earn more than those without degrees, and those with higher degrees earn more than those with lower degrees. Also, as more Americans change careers more often, retraining becomes less of a luxury and more of a necessity. And there’s little doubt that the boom in on-line education opportunities has been incredibly empowering to a huge segment of the population that for geographic, economic or other reasons have not been able to return to school but are now doing so in droves because they’re able to learn at their own speed from the comfort of their living rooms.”

About CollegeRecruiter.com

CollegeRecruiter.com is the highest traffic career site used by job hunting students and recent graduates and the employers who want to hire them. The CollegeRecruiter.com network of career sites is used by 5,000,000 visitors per month to find part-time positions, summer jobs, internships and career opportunities. CollegeRecruiter.com features tens of thousands of job openings and over 1,300 pages of employment-related articles and Ask the Experts questions and answers. Further information about CollegeRecruiter.com is available at http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com/pages/press-room.php.

No smoking means, no smoking!!!

Four employees of a health care company have been fired for refusing to take a test to determine whether they smoke cigarettes. Weyco Inc., a health benefits administrator based in Okemos, Mich., adopted a policy Jan. 1 that allows employees to be fired if they smoke, even if the smoking happens after business hours or at home.

Read: Company Fires All Employees Who Smoke

Never say die!

The Nobel laureate James Watson, who started a revolution in science as co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, put it to me straight a couple of years ago: “Never retire. Your brain needs exercise or it will atrophy.”

Why, then, am I bidding Op-Ed readers farewell after more than 3,000 columns? Nobody pushed me; at 75, I

Extreme makeovers for jobhunters?

According to Mark Hovind, business consultant and owner of JobBait.com, finding a 6-figure job takes more than a world-class cover letter and resume. Job-seekers can”t just throw their hat in the ring and expect a miracle to occur. And they can”t just post their resume on websites and expect Corporate America to beat a path to their door. They must get fierce, intense, motivated and passionate.

Mr. Hovind offers, “Go straight to the decision-maker (President, CEO, Owner or Chairman) and ask for the job. Grab their attention with a cover letter that answers three basic questions right up front

Sometimes its better not to work…

Think your job