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How does it work? Why do companies work with us? Register with us -FREE OF CHARGE- and gain exposure to thousands of nationwide companies who are actively seeking entry or junior level candidates. We provide our free service to every student at every school in the country. We'll give you the highest visibility possible in the active job market .
The best part of all is that while we will help you build a resume, you don't need a finished resume to register here....Why not? Because often Human Resource managers won't have time to review every sentence of an individual resume, instead they'll glance over each looking for key details. That's EXACTLY what we give them - in a condensed form. When you Register with our Student Directory, what HR will see is a concentrated, skillset-specific summary of your background and interests! So while HR is reviewing your skill/interest/qualification summary from AI's Student Directory, you can refer to our Advice Forum to develop or improve your resume and interview strategy - ready for that manager's call! How does the Student Directory work?
Who's eligible? Let's consider a simplified example: (You can get as detailed as you'd like!) You are interested in Technical Marketing positions in Information Technology which are located in Alaska, California, or New Jersey. Let's say that you're into personal fitness and therefore will be more interested companies with health facilities on-site or subsidized healthclub memberships. Also, you have prior Co-op experience working for 2 months as a Marketing Assistant at an Athletic Sneaker Company (which paid a minimal salary). You select the following information (from our Registration):
Classify Your Degree Program and Greatest Interest! (You can pick your top 3...)
Choose Your Destination! (Again, you can pick your top 3...)
Now to the other side of the fence - each company we work with uses our unique Search Engine to select and locate candidates who match their specific criteria. A Media-Communications company, ABC, in San Diego uses our search engine and specifies: Candidates interested in the San Diego area, BA degree in Marketing, with some practical experience and solid technical coursework. Our Search Engine matches your interests and qualifications with those of Company ABC and highlights your name as a match with accuracy. Since cities in our Directory are grouped by state your match will register at about 90%, but will be grouped with all California listings. As company ABC reviews the rest of your Registration they notice some of your personal and professional interests - they know they can call you with confidence because they happen to provide full benefits, offer a nonsmoking environment, and provide health facility discounts.
Company ABC reaches you by email, telephone, fax, or mail (whichever you've selected) to discuss your interest in their company. You already know that they've found you because their criteria match yours - and best of all, this whole process happens BEFORE graduation! This means that you will get calls from companies seeking exactly the specifications you are looking for, with exactly the right educational background in exactly the right geographic area!
Why do companies work with Access Interactive? Consider some other methods companies can employ to locate entry or junior level candidates: Post an internal company bulletin, advertise in a local newspaper, post a job on the webpage or to a newsgroup, attend a job fair at a specific college or university, or maybe even employ a recruiting firm or placement agency. Let's address these points in context: Internal bulletins are friend-of-a-friend type advertising and are low-cost. However, many unqualified people may come forward with resumes and expect preferential treatment from the company = time investment too high. Advertising in newspapers can be prohibitively expensive costing anywhere from $500 for a 4"x4" ad in a small local paper, to $5000 for the same in a more widely distributed paper. Considering the costs, a company may run ads every week for specific skillsets like Product Managers or Senior Software Engineers, but rarely will a company orient an advertisement toward entry or junior level candidates. In addition many unqualified people will apply = time and financial investment too high. Posting on the Internet or on a Website is easy, quick, and inexpensive and is potentially seen by millions of people. How many Human Resource people do you think it will take to look at each resume for accurate background and qualifications? = time investment too high. Attending a job fair is possible for most companies. However, job fairs require significant advertising (newspaper, radio, etc.) and significant time investment to meet and interview many attendees = time and financial investment too high. Recruiting firms and placement agencies are paid fees to match people with jobs. Sometimes the candidate will pay a small fee to the agency, usually a couple of hundred dollars. More often, the agency will collect a fee from the hiring company which is a percentage of your salary. These fees are sometimes as high as 30% of your salary (i.e. your salary =$30,000, company fee=$9,000). Again, a company may consider engaging recruiters and agencies when looking for a very specific or high demand skillset, but rarely when looking for a junior or entry level candidate = financial investment too high. With us, companies have a streamlined alternative - Our Student Directory! We provide companies with a completely organized method of finding exclusively qualified and interested entry and junior level individuals at minimal time and financial investment. Each of our client companies uses our unique search engine to select and locate candidates who match specific criteria which you've defined. This means that when you get calls, they'll come from companies seeking exactly the specifications you have - and are looking for, with exactly the right educational background in exactly the right geographic area.
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