If you are one of many college students currently adrift in a jobless market, then CollegeRecruiter.com may have launched a service that will be of interest to you. The site is an on-line job board for college students, and has just gone mobile with dotMobi. CollegeRecruiter.mobi claims it is the first college job board to create a fully functional, mobile Web site.
The mobile version of CollegeRecruiter is a fully functioning job site. Candidates can search and apply for jobs through the mobile site. The on-line and mobile versions share content, but can be used as fully separate services.
From the release:
“We decided a few years ago that the future of the Internet was mobile, but we felt until recently that the significant investment in building and maintaining a second version of our Web site was not yet worth it,” said Steven Rothberg, founder of CollegeRecruiter.com. “We knew that the mobile Web had reached critical mass when Nielson Media reported that more than 40 million U.S. residents access the Web on their cell phones. And given that our primary audience are college students, recent graduates and alumni, we also knew that a higher percentage of our tech-savvy audience would be mobile Web users than the audience for general job boards or the niche boards, which target by industry or geography.”
“CollegeRecruiter.mobi is truly mobile,” said Rothberg. “Candidates search the job database on their cell phones just like they’re on their computers. They read the job postings on their mobiles just like they’re on their computers. And they can apply to the job postings on their mobiles just like they’re on their computers. There’s no need to e-mail a link. If a job is posted at 9 a.m. and they find it at 9:10 a.m., they can apply to it at 9:10 a.m. and be the first candidate to apply rather than e-mailing it to themselves and then not being able to do anything until they can get to their computer.”
What we think?
I remember job hunting after college. It was horrible. The biggest problem is that it’s hard to find work if you don’t have work. The daily trek down to the nearest web-cafe so that I could check mails and job sites was soul-crushing. How much easier, then, to be able to check it on my mobile device? Not that I had a web-capable mobile device back then, but the point remains. This is a genuinely useful service for first-time job seekers.
