O2YCCSA Website Offers Ohio Employers a Free and Easy Way to Post Jobs Once to Reach Multiple Ohio Colleges

NEW YORK, July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With Ohio's unemployment rate at about 8.6%, the new website launched this past March by a consortium of Ohio's community and technical colleges and College Central Network, Inc. (CCN) has attracted the attention of many Ohio employers. The new website is FREE and it makes it easy for the state's employers to post any number of jobs at no cost and reach all interested students, alumni, and community residents simultaneously.

The new website, www.CollegeCentral.com/o2yccsa, enables employers to post a job and reach all consortium member schools. To date, employers posting jobs already reach the following community and technical colleges for free: Belmont Technical College; Cuyahoga Community College; Eastern Gateway Community College; Edison Community College; Hocking College; Marion Technical College; North Central State College; Northwest State Community College; Owens Community College; Rhodes State College; Stark State College; Terra State Community College; Washington State Community College; and Zane State College.

According to Joy Miller, one of CCN's College Relations Managers for Ohio, "The O2YCCSA Jobs Consortium is a win-win for both employers and job seekers across the state. It makes posting jobs to multiple campuses simple and free, and greatly increases the number of job opportunities for our partner campuses and jobs seekers attending the Consortium's schools."

College Central Network's Career Services Central (SM) is the exclusive online career office management solution for the career centers of the Consortium's participating schools, as well as the Consortium website and over 36 individual two- and four-year career centers statewide.

Miller says, "participating community and technical college career centers and workforce development centers play a key role in providing the career skills needed by the next generation of the state's emerging talent. Now employers have an extremely efficient set of tools and can easily tap into that talent pipeline when growing their Ohio-based businesses."

"In this economy, graduating students need to look more closely at opportunities from small- and medium-size businesses, government agencies, and non-profits, in addition to those offered by well-known employers," says Patty Meeks, Career Development Specialist, Stark State College. "The current economic climate levels the playing field for all organizations seeking to fill positions. While traditional 'employers of choice' will be more discerning in their hiring decisions, others can now attract quality candidates who might have elected to work elsewhere in a stronger economy."

Meeks added, "The www.CollegeCentral.com/o2yccsa website makes it economical for all Ohio employers — small and large, public and private — to directly target their postings to the candidates they want. Plus, they post jobs for free. We are excited about this new service and encourage employers statewide to take advantage of it!"

About College Central Network, Inc.

College Central Network, Inc. (www.collegecentral.com), has helped launch the careers of the next generation of America's workforce for over fourteen years.  Established in 1997, College Central Network has been the nation's leading application service provider (ASP) of online career office management systems to small-to-midsize colleges and universities, community and technical colleges, and art and design colleges. Over 2.5 million students enrolled at nearly 600 exclusively powered partner campuses are served, as well as thousands of career center staff members and over 800,000 registered employers.

College Central Network and Jobs Central are registered trademarks of College Central Network, Inc. Career Services Central is a service mark of College Central Network.

SOURCE College Central Network, Inc.