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Student Helps Jobless Students, Grads Beat Unemployment in Canada
University of Waterloo co-op student launches job site to help jobless students, grads beat 16.4 percent unemployment rate in Canada
WATERLOO, ON, CANADA, October 02, 2009 /Employment - Careers PR News/ -- The numbers are discouraging. 16.4 percent student jobless rate; Statistics Canada's lowest record since 1977. Enter University of Waterloo student Robin Speziale who launched Buddingup to help jobless students and recent grads beat unemployment. Buddingup.com helps students and grads network with recruiters, friend fellow job seekers, connect to campus recruitment programs, and search jobs all across Canada.
"The old job boards don't address the new needs of young job seekers" states Robin Speziale, founder of Buddingup.com. "Students and grads are used to social networking like Facebook where they can easily connect with people. So when they search or apply for jobs on these old job boards, it's like hitting a wall - theirs no connectivity between them and the employer".
In developing the idea for Buddingup, Speziale wanted to provide a better job search experience. "Buddingup is all about helping students and grads find a job - so we added more job search features than the average job board"
- On the find recruiters section, students and grads can contact recruiters directly in order to network to their job. "Now if you want to follow up with the employer after applying to a job or ask a recruiter questions, you can"
- With Career Pages, students and grads can link directly to campus recruitment programs. "The campus recruitment pages are available in one click so that students and grads won't have to spend their time navigating through hundreds of company websites"
- On the job search, students and grads can search new entry level jobs, co-op jobs and internships from across Canada. "The job search on Buddingup pulls jobs from all over the internet, so all jobs are in one spot"
- Students and grads can join Buddingup to network with each other and share job tips. "I added a social component so that students and grads could connect to the job seeker community in Canada, making the job search more fun"
- Students and grads can create a professional profile on Buddingup, including a brief description of their skills, eduation, qualities and post links to their blog, Twitter, and Facebook "so that they can better advertise to recruiters"
Can Robin Speziale help jobless students and grads beat the 16.4 percent student unemployment rate in Canada? "At the end of they day, students and grads will be the ones who beat the high unemployment rate, I'm just giving them a better job search experience to help them find jobs" states Speziale.
For additional information on the news that is the subject of this release (or for screenshots, interviews), contact Robin Speziale.
Robin Speziale
Buddingup
416-795-2366
info@buddingup.com
About Buddingup
Buddingup.com is a job site for students and grads featuring entry level jobs, internships, and co-op jobs from Canada and U.S. Robin Speziale, a co-op student at the University of Waterloo, launched Buddingup April, 2009.
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Robin Speziale
Buddingup
Founder & CEO
413 Hazel Street
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
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