CampusPoint Helps Washington Job-Seekers in a Slow Economy.

Business Editors

TUKWILA, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2002

Technology-driven "New Concept" Career Center Enables Students and

Recent Graduates from Across the State to Find Work at Leading Local

Employers

Since launching in April, 2002, start-up CampusPoint Corp. has helped students and recent college graduates find fulltime jobs and internships with leading local employers including Alaska Airlines, Safeco, Gordon Trucking, Mackie Designs, Starbucks, and ADP.

CampusPoint's technology allows Puget Sound area employers to offer prescheduled "Intent To Interview Announcements" (the equivalent of on-campus recruiting without actually visiting campus) to every student and recent college graduate at every school in Washington State. Coupled with online screening tools and regular visits to each campus by CampusPoint representatives, this innovative new service has enabled the company to thrive despite the slowdown in corporate hiring.

"The campus recruiting process is notoriously difficult for students, especially in this labor market, and particularly for those of us at smaller schools often overlooked by employers," said Rylie Baumgartner, a Seattle Pacific University Junior. "A system like CampusPoint has been needed for years, and it works. Thanks to CampusPoint, I'm putting my Accounting skills to work at Mackie Designs."

While CampusPoint is of great benefit to students and recent graduates, the service makes the campus recruiting effort faster, better, and cheaper for employers who are overwhelmed with resumes: "CampusPoint enabled our organization to recruit recent graduates more efficiently by pre-qualifying them prior to the interview process, and because CampusPoint strives to reach every student at every school, this is a better, more fair process for the students," said Kelly Dobbs, managing director of Staffing and Development at Alaska Airlines.

"As an example, we listed 8 internships with CampusPoint in early July. We received 65+ applicants, interviewed 11, selected 7 of them for internships, and they were from 5 different schools. The students have been high quality and seem to be working out well. Finding this many people would have been very time consuming for us on our own, if even possible, in the time we had to work with."

CampusPoint's co-founder and CEO, Jason Granlund, explains how the service is differentiated from other recruiting companies: "We've gone beyond staffing companies, employment agencies and job boards to make campus recruiting a worthwhile investment," Granlund said. "We make it easier and far less time consuming for employers to screen and pre-qualify potential applicants and we have a physical presence on campuses to support students. The result is a more efficient model for connecting employers with students and recent graduates that is unlike anything ever done before."

About CampusPoint

CampusPoint enables local students and recent graduates to find interviewing opportunities for fulltime jobs and internships while streamlining the campus recruiting process for employers. CampusPoint is the only system working to link all community colleges, technical schools, four-year colleges, and universities in Washington with leading local employers - creating a single, technology-driven career services center for every student and recent college graduate in Washington. While now focused on Washington State students, expansions into other markets are planned. CampusPoint was founded in October of 2000 by University of Washington recent graduates and is located in Tukwila, Wash.