AfterCollege, Inc., the nation’s largest career network for college students and recent graduates and Adicio Inc., the leading provider of interactive classified advertising software for media companies, today announced an alliance to facilitate access to AfterCollege’s career network for students and recent graduates. Through the alliance, Adicio’s newspaper clients will be able to upsell their job listings to the AfterCollege database.

AfterCollege maintains an exclusive network of over 1,500 partnering academic departments and student groups, as well as a proprietary database of over 19,500 faculty and student group contacts at the nation’s top colleges and universities. Through its network, AfterCollege delivers targeted job listings to a diverse audience of students who range from undergraduates to PhDs, with 84% having GPAs of 3.0 or above. AfterCollege helps the student find a part-time job or internship during school and upon graduation in their specific field.

“We’re excited about our partnership with Adicio and being able to offer their newspaper clients access to our exclusive network of exceptional students and graduates.” said Michael Dawes, Vice President of Channel Partnerships at AfterCollege. “This mutually beneficial alliance gives both parties additional visibility and exposure, enabling newspapers to target the college and university audiences while giving college job seekers more quality opportunities.”

“Aligning with AfterCollege allows us to offer our newspaper clients direct access to emerging talent that their local HR communities are eager to tap.” said Tony Lee, Chief Alliance Officer, Adicio. “We’re also working with AfterCollege to expand this program and offer these services to our broad range of non-newspaper clients as well.”

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