© 2012 aftercollege leverage technology to help your students find jobs and internships october 12...
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© 2012 AfterCollege
Leverage technology to help your students find jobs and internships
October 12th, 2012
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• About AfterCollege
• Today’s Job Market
• Effective Job Search Strategies
• AfterCollege Approach
• Case Studies
• Leveraging AfterCollege
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About AfterCollegeAfterCollege is a career network connecting 3,000,000 college students and recent graduates with top employers through faculty and career networks at over 2,300 colleges and universities across the U.S.
Our goal: to help college students and entry-level job seekers find their first job or internship.
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Founded • Founded in 1999 to better help students find jobs• Recently launched a professional network exclusively for entry-level
Category • Professional Recruiting Network (LinkedIn for students/recent grads)
Business Model
• Transaction and subscription fees from employers• Free to colleges and students• Privacy is a key part of our value proposition
Reach • 3,000,000 students and alumni annually • 16,000 departments across 2,300 colleges• Utilized by 20,000+ employers in the past 12 months
Improving Upon
• Career center• Traditional generic online job boards
About AfterCollege – Noteworthy Facts
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Today’s Job Market
Source: AfterCollege Spring 2012 student survey, 1180 respondents
Did you have a job lined up prior to graduation?
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Today’s Job Market
Source: AfterCollege Spring 2012 student survey, 1180 respondents
Are you having a hard time finding work?
7Source: NACE 2011 Student Survey Report
Social Media and it’s True Effectiveness
Today’s Job Market – Cutting through the Noise
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Today’s Job Market – Cutting through the NoiseSocial Media and it’s True Effectiveness
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Today’s Job Market – Cutting through the NoiseSocial Media and it’s True Effectiveness
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Effective Job Search Strategies
Source: AfterCollege Spring 2012 student survey, 1180 respondents
What are the most effective ways to find a job?
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Today’s Job Market – Cutting through the NoiseThe Strength of Weak Ties
Mark Granovetter is Joan Butler Ford Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University.
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AfterCollege ApproachConnecting students to latent networks they don’t know they have
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AfterCollege ApproachFree career networking Software as a Service for Colleges & Universities
• http://career.ccsf.edu/ Student job discoverybased on school & major
Students create profiles and get recommendations
Schools can access andadminister student &alumni data
Student privacy is key
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AfterCollege ApproachColleges can keep track of alumni
See companies wherealumni work
Build a database ofalumni that you can emailor export
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AfterCollege ApproachStudents creating profiles and they are automatically connected to members of their program
Privacy controls
Faculty and classmaterecommendations
Add skills and academic accomplishments
Resume gets auto-createdbased on profile data
Receive messages fromemployers
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AfterCollege ApproachSee where your students want to work
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Case Studies – De Anza College De Anza recently implemented an AfterCollege career network
550 students using the De Anza AfterCollege career network
998 jobs currentlyposted by employers
62 employers where students& grads work
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Case Study – San Francisco Summer Jobs+
•Over 2,000 students created AfterCollege profiles for SF Summer Jobs+
•360 employers shared opportunities.
•San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee had a goal of creating 5,000 summer opportunities.
•5,000+ opportunities were created, beating the goal!!!
AfterCollege partnered with the City of San Francisco on this initiative
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Case Study – White House Summer Jobs+
•Gave free internship and summer postings to employers: http://aftercollege.com/internships
•Made it easy for employers to share opportunities with youth
•Worked with DOL to make opportunities available to youth
•Allowed employers to share moresummer jobs and internships with youth
AfterCollege was the White House’s technology partner on summer jobs initiative
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Leveraging AfterCollege
1) Tell your students to go to AfterCollege.com and create a profile
1) See if students from your school are already signed up http://www.aftercollege.com/browseschools.aspx
Roberto Angulo Jen RuttCEO, AfterCollege Sr. Director, University [email protected] [email protected] x 100 206-930-0845
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Effective Job Search Strategies
Source: AfterCollege Spring 2012 student survey, 1180 respondents
Who’s most influential in your career choices?
1 Spouse2 Parents3 Faculty/Teachers4 Boyfriend/Girlfriend5 Friends6 Classmates7 Siblings8 University Career Center9 Other Family Member
10 The Media11 Association/Club12 Religious Leader/Faith community