San Francisco, CA - July 18, 2005 - AfterCollege, Inc., the nation's largest career network specializing in recruitment at the college level, announced today that it has signed more than 1,200 partnering academic departments and student associations. The company builds and maintains private-label online Job Resource Centers for individual student groups and departments at universities. Through these sites, AfterCollege delivers targeted job content to students from employers who are specifically interested in their skill sets and backgrounds. At the same time, employers who use AfterCollege gain access to college students and alumni through targeted recruitment campaigns.


"The acceptance level of AfterCollege's employment content and information delivery technology in the academic community has been tremendous," said Roberto Angulo, CEO of AfterCollege, Inc. "We look forward to building even more relationships with faculty and deans at universities in the coming months".

AfterCollege has forged relationships with hundreds of academic departments, diversity groups, and student associations throughout the country over the past six years. These relationships encompass disciplines in the areas of finance, engineering, information technology, life sciences and healthcare. In healthcare alone, AfterCollege partners with 41 state chapters of the National Student Nursing Associations, more than 300 nursing schools and the National Association of Associate Degree Nursing (NOADN).

"AfterCollege's services have been quite popular with everyone in our academic community. The job resource and alumni directory technologies are cutting-edge professional networking tools that our students, alumni, and corporate affiliates use extensively," said Scott Dakins, External Relations Coordinator at the University of Washington's Computer Science and Engineering Department. "Our Job Resource Center, powered by AfterCollege, provides everything we need to help facilitate recruitment efforts between students and employers."

More than 170 of the Fortune 500 companies, including Apple Computer, Oracle, Tenet Healthcare, and Sun Microsystems have tapped into AfterCollege's extensive network of academic recruitment sites to create a stronger brand at their target universities. College recruitment and branding campaigns consisting of site sponsor banners, emails, and targeted postings to academic departments at schools such as Berkeley, MIT, and Stanford, help employers attract the students they want to reach.

"AfterCollege has been an invaluable resource to Sun's University Relations team", said Dick Hoell, Director of Global Workforce Planning and Staffing at Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW). "The quality of their services is outstanding, and they have added to our campus efforts in a way that is more cost effective than other alternatives. Through AfterCollege, Sun has been able to target specific, and very desirable college audiences, with great precision."

About AfterCollege
Founded in 1999, AfterCollege Inc. (www.aftercollege.com) is the nation's largest career network specializing in recruitment at the college and alumni level. AfterCollege provides employers with direct access to students through an exclusive network of over 1,200 academic departments and student groups as well as a proprietary database of more than 15,000 faculty, and student group contacts at the nation's top universities. AfterCollege, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California.

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