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Career Services Central

Over 500 career and employment centers rely on the speed, service, power and simplicity of the Career Services Central Online Career Office Management System today. The Career Services Central base system includes employer job posting, résumé search capability, career portfolios, and career advice documents and library. In addition, we include an extraordinary number of time-saving bundled-in tools and features at no additional cost.

Career Services Central is a Web-based software solution that delivers everything you need to easily automate all of your career services office management processes via the Internet using the Application Service Provider (ASP) model. No additional software installation is required on your computers. Our solution enables you to efficiently and effectively meet the needs of your students, alumni, and employers.

Modular by design, CSC Base System enables you to expand and enhance your job search services and capabilities based upon your office’s specific needs. Choose from fully integrated modules such as On-Campus Recruiting, Alumni Mentoring, Counseling and Placement Notes, and more, only when you need them.

We are the only major vendor serving the needs of the nation's small and midsize colleges and universities, community and technical colleges, and art and design colleges.

Our ASP has served the industry since 1997 and includes regular upgrades based on comments and recommendations from our installed client base, whose total enrollment exceeds 12% of all college students enrolled in the U.S.

Ask our clients for a reference! Together, they have made us the trusted industry leader that we are today.

With the Career Services Central base system, you can:

  • Enable employer job posting and résumé searching -- reduce the number of job postings that must be entered by career center staff; employer job postings target students and alumni at your school exclusively.
  • Manage students and alumni records -- administer résumé submissions and distribution, monitor employer job postings and résumé searches, maintain student and alumni contact information.
  • Communicate with job seekers and employers -- manage email contacts; easily send email messages to registered students, alumni, and employers from a secure email management console.
  • Establish a Web presence for your career or employment center -- benefit from your own career center Web site, complete with school logo and matching full color interface.
  • Create an online career document library -- easily post informative career documents and resources directly to job seeker user accounts to better inform, alert, and assist them; complement and enhance your document library with CCN's free selection of professionally written and designed Career Advice documents.
  • Manage announcements and program events -- post special event notifications and announcements directly to student and alumni user account homepages; supports event date and description, venue information, RSVP sign up, and attendee reporting.
  • Generate reports instantly -- save time with easy 1-click report generation; no more guesswork; choose from a library of pre-configured reports created in response to Network member input.
  • Create mailing labels for offline student, alumni, and employer mailing efforts -- make off-line mailing quick and easy; labels are generated directly from job seeker and employer registration data.

With the Career Services Central base system, you also get:

  • Career Advice Video Library -- over 100 online career advice videos; save thousands of dollars with this fully integrated resource -- its FREE and available to job seekers round-the-clock.
  • Career Portfolio Toolkit -- provide job seekers with user-friendly career portfolio management tools; easily creates media-enhanced portfolios showcasing skills, training, work credits, video, audio, photos, and much more; includes custom options for Art and Design, Theater, Music, Dance, and Standard Career Portfolios.
  • Online Resume Builder -- flexible, easy to use, and fully integrated online resume builder prepares perfectly formatted resumes every time.
  • Job Search Agent -- leverage the power of Career Services Central to automatically match individual job seeker profiles directly with job opportunities posted exclusively to your school; updated daily and posted to each user account for viewing upon login.
  • Centralized jobseeker record search and tracking -- concise display of virtually all jobseeker information/status at-a-glance.
  • Multiple résumé upload -- enables jobseekers to upload two résumés with optional career center approval for submission/forwarding to employers.
  • Report Offers/Hires Tool -- captures and provides reporting of hiring information from employers and jobseekers.
  • Marketing flyers -- create awareness of your career center with these PDF formatted electronic marketing flyers; easily printed and distributed via snail mail or email; drives traffic to your career center Web site for job searching and recruiting.
  • Mini-posters -- promote your Career Services Central Web site to students and alumni both on and off campus with these full-color mini-posters; also make great inserts for other printed resources.
  • Full-color Web graphics -- add these eye-catching graphics to your college Web site and link to your Career Services Central home page.
  • Corporate Sponsor Advertising Option -- provide the opportunity of ad banner sponsorship to recruiters and employers in your area; ad banner placements appear on your school's Career Services Central site; finance your technology purchase with sponsorship dollars; promote the opportunity with a customizable sales letter, promo flyer, and order form templates.
  • Experienced college relations team -- rely on the help of these online career services experts, each with over 10 years career services experience; they provide quick response to your questions and are always ready to walk you step-by-step toward a more efficient Web-based career center.

You can customize Career Services Central for your particular needs by choosing from a variety of plug-in productivity modules and options.

Add-on Productivity Modules include:

  • Notes Manager -- record student and alumni appointments and create activity records.
  • On-Campus Recruitment Module -- manage on-campus recruitment through an online system; employers can post jobs, review candidates, and selected candidates can schedule an interview.
  • Mentoring Network Module -- enable alumni and other college contacts to participate in career-related roles with students and alumni.
  • Secure Internship & Co-op Access Manager -- manage job seeker access to internship and co-op position information.
  • Art & Design Portfolio Module -- enable art and design job seekers to upload, describe, and assemble portfolios of their creative work; enable employers to search and view job seeker portfolios.
  • Multi-Campus Option -- enable multiple campus departments to manage students and alumni at different campuses via one centralized Web gateway; generate both individual and aggregate job seeker data reports.

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