CollegeRecruiter.com Acquires Jobseekers Revenge from Microsoft Recruiter, Jim Stroud

CollegeRecruiter.com announced today that it has acquired the Jobseekers Revenge blog from Jim Stroud, a recruiter at Microsoft and the continuing author of the Jim Stroud 2.0 blog. Over 20,000 web pages link to the more than 650 pages of entries, comments, and podcasts at Jobseekers Revenge. The blog was also nominated for the 2005 Best Blog Award by Recruiting.com. Terms of the transaction were not released.

“Since we launched in 1996, CollegeRecruiter.com has always placed a significant emphasis on developing top notch content for the students, recent graduates, employers, and schools that use our career site, said Steven Rothberg, President and Founder of CollegeRecruiter.com. “This emphasis on content has been a primary driving force behind our success in being the highest traffic career site used by students and recent graduates and in our profitability. When Jim asked if we would be interested in acquiring his Jobseekers Revenge blog, we immediately responded that we were. Jim is highly regarded by all involved in recruitment, especially those involved in on-line recruitment. His blog entries are insightful and will be valued by the candidates using our site now that Jim’s content has been migrated to the "CollegeRecruiter.com Insights by Employers Blog.

“As much as I enjoyed writing and editing Jobseekers Revenge, my new position with Microsoft and continuing work on the Jim Stroud 2.0 blog simply did not allow me enough time for Jobseekers Revenge," said Jim Stroud. “Yet I was unwilling to let it wither and die a slow death so decided that the best approach was to find a leading career site that shared my vision for wanting to help college students and recent graduates. I was gratified that CollegeRecruiter.com was as interested in my content as I was in making sure that my content continued to live and benefit these entry level candidates.

The hundreds of entries, comments, and podcasts on Jobseekers Revenge have been imported into the CollegeRecruiter.com Insights by Employers Blog, which is written by recruiters and hiring managers from numerous employers. Visitors may choose to read only those entries and comments originally posted to Jobseekers Revenge by clicking on Jim Stroud’s name in the list of authors on the right side of every page of the CollegeRecruiter.com Insights by Employers Blog. Visitors to Jobseekers Revenge will soon automatically be re-directed to the CollegeRecruiter.com Insights by Employers Blog.

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. Three million visitors per month use the CollegeRecruiter.com network of career sites to find part-time positions, summer jobs, internships and career opportunities. CollegeRecruiter.com features tens of thousands of job openings and 3,500 pages of employment-related articles, Ask the Experts questions and answers, and blog entries. Further information about CollegeRecruiter.com is available at http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com/pages/press-room.php.

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