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news:
Jobtrak gets new
name
By Stephine Michrina
Daily On-line Forty-Niner
Confused Cal State
Long Beach students who logged onto the Career Development
Center's JOBTRAK, found the link to the site sent them directly
to monsterTRAK as of June 6. Monster.com,
which purchased JOBTRAK last November, launched its job listing
and resume service called monsterTRAK last week.
"MosterTRAK is
just like JOBTRAK was," said Paul Fornell, acting director
of the CDC.
The site, however,
has changed the look of JOBTRAK to that of the highly marketed
Monster.com.
"The function of
the site really hasn't changed, but the look is different,"
Fornell said.
Students enrolled in classes full time can access monsterTRAK,
which provides the latest regional job postings, for free.
Fornell stresses
that there are distinct differences between Monster.com and
monsterTRAK.
"MonsterTRAK has
exclusive listings for CSULB," he said.
Recent CSULB graduates
can also access the Web site to obtain information on current
job openings in and around Long Beach up to three months after
graduation.
"We waited to make
the change until the end of the school year because we didn't
want to confuse students," said Ken Ramberg, president of
MonsterTRAK and co-founder of JOBTRAK.
Ramberg said students
can expect more employers to list jobs on the new site because
of Monster.com's large sales force.
The new site will also feature more international job postings,
giving students increased opportunities to find jobs and internships
abroad.
According to Ramberg,
who came up with the idea of an electronic job posting bulletin
board in 1988 when he visited his college career center at
Stanford University, 50,000 students access JOBTRAC everyday.
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