Bernard Hodes Group’s SmartPost announces media alliance with AfterCollege

Bernard Hodes Group, a fully integrated talent solutions provider and a market leader for over 30 years, today announced a media alliance between their innovative online sourcing management tool, SmartPost and AfterCollege, the largest career network specializing in recruitment at the college and alumni level. SmartPost helps recruiters target the right online sources for their specific hiring needs, and analyzes the results of online job marketing to better recruit in the future.

ìThis important new alliance will help uncover the job posting ësweet spotí our clients look to us to help them find, namely, more niche targeting to improve cost per hire and ROI on their posting efforts,î said Alan V. Schwartz, CEO, Bernard Hodes Group.

The strategic partnership between SmartPost and AfterCollege provides SmartPost customers with targeted exposure to AfterCollegeís exclusive network of over 2 million college students. Effective immediately, SmartPost users gain competitive advantage and access to post directly to college students and recent graduates at 1,230 academic departments and student groups. Employers can post their open positions to AfterCollege.com, AfterCollege Healthcare, and to specific academic recruitment sites in the areas of engineering, high technology, healthcare, finance, business, life sciences, and diversity.

ìWith the addition of AfterCollege to the SmartPost e-media network/library, our customers are now able to target their communications to the exact student population they are trying to reachî, said Carmen Doherty, director of SmartPost, Bernard Hodes Group.

We are excited to partner with SmartPost in delivering the most relevant opportunities to students in our network. AfterCollege looks forward to providing SmartPost users with the most targeted access to this coveted audience while delivering jobs to our students from specific employers who are interested in reaching them,î said Roberto Angulo, CEO, AfterCollege.

In addition this media alliance offers the following benefits to users: 600,000 unique visits per month comprise the combined traffic to these sites. Targeted audiences in subject areas include: engineering, IT, life sciences, healthcare, business and finance and diversity organizations. Targeted audience ranges from sophomores to PhDs. 84% of students have GPA of 3.0 or above. Positions sought by this audience: Full-time jobs, internships, externships (nursing), new grad programs (nursing), part-time jobs.