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Collegefeed Opens Doors Nationwide to Help New Grads Get HiredMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Just in time for the graduating class of 2013, Collegefeed today announced that it has opened its doors to students and employers nationwide. Collegefeed is a career marketplace that helps connect college students and new graduates with the perfect employer. Companies use Collegefeed to find the right candidate without spending the time and money to canvass dozens of campuses. It's the only social platform designed to kick-start your career - by finding jobs and internships, networking with leading employers and alums, and winning financial awards from sponsoring companies. Free sign up at: http://collegefeed.com. "LinkedIn (News - Alert), Monster, job boards can all be good tools for anyone with professional experience, but they don't help most first-time job-seekers get hired," said Sanjeev Agrawal, founder and CEO of Collegefeed. "Collegefeed is the first social media site designed to fix the problem. Grads can quickly showcase the skills and qualifications they do have in a way that makes them stand out to employers. They get the ability to network with interesting industry insiders, a custom news feed, with opportunities tailored to them, and access cutting-edge discovery tools to match them to the perfect company." Since launching in private beta to select Silicon Valley universities in March, thousands of students and employers have flocked to Collegefeed to connect with each other. Beta students from Stanford, Berkeley and Carnegie Melon have already made connections, secured interviews, jobs, internships and financial awards with companies like YouTube, eBay, Facebook, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft (News - Alert) and many more. HOW IT WORKS: For Students With Collegefeed, students create short profiles, which showcase their work and skills much better than traditional resums. Collegefeed uses this information to connect users to jobs and internships based on their interests, to network with industry insiders, find alumni at their choice of companies, apply for employer-sponsored awards, share interview experiences with each other and much more. They get a custom news feed that displays updates on their preferred employers - making it effortless to stay up-to-date. "College graduates need an innovative and interactive way of finding a suitable entry level job and starting their careers," said Buford Barr, Professor of Practice at Santa Clara University. "Certainly developing a resume and getting on LinkedIn are part of the process, but Collegefeed helps students differentiate themselves - to brand themselves - to stand out from the competition. Our students love using the service. It guides students through the job search preparation process and then provides names of companies offering relevant job opportunities." Collegefeed features a recommendation engine, which allows students to share the names of companies they are most interested in working for; algorithms suggest alternatives based on that criteria. As a result, Collegefeed creates new job opportunities within start-ups and even large companies students would otherwise never discover. "Some of our students are getting multiple offers from employers and are in a position where they often aren't sure which employer to choose," said Martin Griss, director of Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley campus. "Collegefeed has combined the best of today's social media and real-time technologies to create a job-matching program that enables students to find companies that they might not otherwise seek out, based on their passions, talents and values." HOW IT WORKS: For Employers Employers spend up to $10,000 trying to fill each position. Many companies, who might be attractive to candidates, can't afford the time or money needed to reach the million-plus new grads each year. With Collegefeed, companies get a branded presence to help increase mindshare with students, to reach more campuses and showcase alumni, as well as select specific students they want to interview or hire. They can even push relevant content to a student's newsfeed to get their attention. "Collegefeed is the only recruiting platform we've seen that allows us to develop a real dialogue with super interesting candidates right out of the gate," said Kevin Fliess, COO and General Manager at Room 77. "That personal connection is huge - both for the candidate as well as the company." Join Collegefeed's First Insiders Hang Out - May 24th
Special guest: Prashant
Fuloria Pricing and Availability Students and job-seekers can create a profile for free at www.collegefeed.com. About Collegefeed Collegefeed was started by a team of six ex-Google (News - Alert) / Microsoft / McKinsey alumni who graduated from six schools with ten degrees between them. Collegefeed is headquartered in Mountain View, California. More information about the company can be found at http://www.collegefeed.com. Employers, students, placement offices and other partners contact [email protected].
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