Moving Our Announcements of What's New at IMDiversity.com

December 2007: For 2008, the editors of IMDiversity.com and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN will begin posting the items that used to be posted at our What's New Page on our new blogs.

We hope that moving to this new vehicle/format will not only allow us to post more and more varied types of What's New announcements more effectively, but will also allow interested users to subscribe (via RSS or Atom feeds) to receive notices of What's New postings generally, or categorized according to their unique interests.

To view announcements on our blogs, please see our new blogs sections at:

http://www.imdiversity.com/blog/
http://www.black-collegian.com/blog/

Winter Internships Special

Beginning on the long holiday weekend and the rest of November, IMDiversity will be running a special for student and entry-level jobseekers visiting our site. Posted on our Internships and Coops page will be a number of Featured Internships, some of which are, yes, already coming up on application deadlines for the summer. For the industrious students looking to line up their ducks with plenty of lead-time, stop by and check them out. For the procrastinators among us, it looks like there are still some great employers accepting applications for spring as well, but they're going fast. If you don't see any you like right off the bat, try one of our pre-programmed internship quicksearches on that page to find more opportunities.

Introducing IMDiversity Featured Jobs

We are pleased to formally introduce our new IMDiversity Featured Jobs section, now available to help bring together the most active, direct employers and active jobseekers on our site. Offered by IMDiversity in beta form and refined since this spring, Featured Jobs was developed at the suggestion of the site's jobseeker-users and employers alike.

A prominently placed special jobs section linked throughout the extended IMDiversity.com network, Featured Jobs allows returning jobseekers quick, easy access to a shortlist of jobs posted by direct employers where the hiring managers have indicated their active interest in locating diverse candidates for the position. Because Featured Jobs are posted on IMDiversity by direct job posters, and not through automation, a position's appearance in this section lets you know that an employer has taken an extra, active step toward filling the position with qualified, diverse candidates.

For employers, including smaller and non-commercial organizations, it provides a chance to let your high-priority or time-sensitive job postings stand out from the pack. While still accessible in our regular database searches, your upgraded job posting allows you to spotlight a single opportunity in your organization that might otherwise get less notice in regular searches because of the high volume of jobs in search results.

Featured Jobs is accessible on nearly every page including our Villages, Career Center, blogs and even select partner sites. We encourage all users to visit the section, and as always to send us your feedback or ideas.

New edition of THE BLACK COLLEGIAN on campus

The staff at IMDiversity is pleased to announce that the First Semester Super Issue of THE BLACK COLLEGIAN has made its way to college campuses. Available at colleges nationwide, primarily through career services offices, as well as through direct personal subscriptions, the new Career Planning and Job Search Issue features:

The annual TOP 100 Diversity Employers List

Careers Focus on Engineering, Science and Technology, including an interview with NASA astronaut Joan Higginbotham

A new special report on the progress at New Orleans' HBCUs two years after Hurricane Katrina, in collaboration with Black College Wire

Kanye West feature profile

Campus to Careers section

The magazine is free for students through the campus career center. Stop in and get your copy for these features and many more today, or stop in at the THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online later this month for some previews and extended features.

Employer Tools Update: More Application Methods

Tip to employers posting open positions on IMDiversity's Job Bank and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online's Job Bank: At the request of our clients, we have again expanded the options and tools for specifiying different preferred formats and communications methods for receiving applications from our jobseekers. New tools bundled with the basic and advanced Job Post Form in your Employer Tools account not only allow you to specify a wider range of position-specific application requirements. They also provide expanded options for receiving applications (whether via email, Inbox files, redirects, or other methods), and new tools for previewing and testing application redirects and email contacts.

Additional upgrades are planned to this section in September, so stay tuned.