After the tragedy that occurred recently on the Virginia Tech campus, Collegiate Recruitment Team (CRT) President Wendell Tull decided that he wanted to help fund a memorial scholarship in the name of the victims that lost their lives during the tragedy.
Tullís organization operates a job board that is comprised of college graduates who competed as student-athletes while undergraduates at their respective institutions. The CRT job board functions much like larger career sites Monster, Career Builder, and Yahoo Hotjobs with the exception that every one of its registered career seekers has a minimum of a 4-year degree and in the case of one third of its job seekers, has an advanced degree. Whatís also important to note is that half of CRTís 400,000 career seekers are women and underrepresented minorities, a statistic that corporate recruiters should find attractive in their efforts to increase the diversity within many of their organizations.
Itís the quality of graduates that CRT has registered is what Tull knows attracts corporations to pay fees to post open positions on the career board. Posting fees will then go towards the scholarship fund at VA Tech. Itís only $25 per posting on the crtjobs.org career site.
Tull hit on the idea for CRT during his tenure as director of recruitment at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus. Corporate recruiters and staffing professionals, he noted, had a hard time recruiting and retaining a diverse, highly educated pool of applicants; candidates on large job boards were not measuring up. Tull himself had enjoyed early career success, and many of his friends and acquaintances had similar stories. Now corporations can find talented employees and help in the grieving process at Virginia Tech.
Niche Job Board Run By NCAA Grads Set Goal To Raise Funds for Virginia Tech Fund
Over 400,000 4-year grads, MBAís, and PhDís that are NCAA Alums populate site
