NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Iowa employers seeking job-ready talent now
have a FREE resource to post jobs: the Iowa Community Colleges Jobs
Consortium website, powered by College Central Network, Inc.
(CCN).
The (https://CollegeCentral.com/iaccjobs) website makes it
both FREE and easy for all employers—large and small, public and
private—to register just once and then post an unlimited number of
jobs to Iowa's community college
students and alumni! This is an extraordinarily useful
resource for employers hiring in today's climate, even with
temporarily closed or restricted campuses, and students having to
return home.
Employers posting jobs today can simultaneously reach tens of
thousands of job seekers from Des Moines Area
Community College, Eastern Iowa Community Colleges,
Hawkeye Community College, and Iowa
Valley Community College District.
Joy Miller, CCN's Career Services
Central® National Sales Manager explains, "As we enter the fall
semester, employers still need to target timely job postings in
response to COVID-19."
In addition, organizations are looking to hire college students
and alumni willing and able to jump in to meet their state's,
regions', or cities' specific hiring environment. The timing now is
ideal, with Iowa's community
colleges well positioned to help their State's economy rebound
fast, and to quickly fill the State's hiring needs in an era of
rapid economic and technological change.
"Many employers post jobs at the closest community colleges,"
Miller added. "But, with the Consortium, there is a synergy.
Employers can easily extend their reach without additional effort.
Posting just once, they can go statewide or target a specific
combination of regional Iowa
community colleges."
CCN's Career Services Central® is the exclusive online career
office management platform for career centers at all schools
participating in the Consortium. Joy Miller sums it up:
"Community colleges can have a great impact on the State's economy.
The Iowa Community Colleges Jobs Consortium website allows
employers to easily recruit the state's home-grown entry-level
talent by removing as many barriers as possible, simplifying the
hiring process. This is especially critical given the added current
complications of closed campuses and remote learning."
With more than 23,000 undergraduates*, Des Moines Area Community
College is the State's largest community college. According to
Sara Clayton, Career Center
Coordinator at the college, "Graduates of Iowa community colleges overwhelmingly pursue
employment in state, making up a large proportion of Iowa's workforce and contributing directly to
the state's economic growth. This new jobs Consortium will allow
our employer partners to tap into the talented pool of Iowa community college graduates in an easy,
efficient way."
Rob Schadt, Academic Advisor
& Career Services Coordinator at Eastern Iowa Community
Colleges stated: "Recruiters like the ease of posting just
once to access the talent at all Iowa Consortium members' community
colleges. Our graduates have the skills, and they are eager to
move directly into the local workforce now."
Schadt added: "Our colleges train our State's students to
mesh with Iowa's needs, and our
graduates are who today's employers are looking to hire.
Employers who post to the Consortium are specifically looking to
hire students and alumni who want to work in Iowa. It should be noted that our community
college graduates almost exclusively accept job offers in the
state, and that makes this a workforce win-win."
Rachel Evans, Career Services
Center Coordinator at Hawkeye Community College emphasized,
"Signing up just once provides an employer with unlimited posting
opportunities statewide! The Consortium is able to offer a fast,
user-friendly, and streamlined resource to access talent with a
single registration."
Evans added, "There is a broad range of talent that graduates
from the Consortium's colleges bring to the workforce, including
automotive technology, business, child development, computer
information systems, healthcare, manufacturing, education,
construction, and much more."
MaryAnne Zanella Nickle, M.ED.,
Dean at Iowa Valley Community College District, pointed out, "Job
postings are free of charge to all Iowa employers. This is a useful and free
resource that can connect you with qualified students and alumni
across the state. Iowa's emerging
two-year graduates, funded by Iowans to specifically meet the needs
of the state's workforce, finally have a much-needed path for our
state's employers to hire and retain local community college
talent!"
Nickle added: "Our Consortium's combined undergraduate reach in
Iowa is huge and will continue to
expand as additional colleges join in. The Consortium will deliver
our State's employers a diverse mix of qualified students and
alumni who are highly skilled and motivated to jump right into
our workforce!"
Statistics show that approximately 47,909 students attend
Iowa community
colleges.*
* "Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System," National
Center for Education Statistics, accessed July 15, 2020,
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data.
About College Central Network®
Founded in 1997, College Central Network (CCN) has over 23 years
of experience connecting employers with qualified emerging talent
candidates. More than one million employers have already registered
to utilize the Network to post jobs and recruit students and alumni
for entry-level jobs.
CollegeCentral.com is absolutely free for any student enrolled
at a U.S. college; alumnus/a of a U.S. college; community resident
taking classes at a U.S. college; or student attending one of our
partner high schools. To learn more, visit:
CollegeCentral.com.
About Career Services Central®
Career Services Central (CSC) is CCN's intuitive and affordable
career office management platform that works on any device and is
trusted by hundreds of institutions and organizations across the
U.S.
Thousands of career professionals use CSC daily to manage the
entire career process for students, alumni, and community residents
attending CSC-powered institutions, including appointments, career
advice and job searching, résumés, career portfolios, experiential
learning, on-campus recruiting, career events, and job fairs. To
learn more, visit: CareerServicesCentral.com.
CONTACT:
Barbara Anderson
800-442-3614
banderson@CollegeCentral.com
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