College Recruiter

I Started A Business That's Helped Thousands Of College Grads Get Jobs

Steven Rothberg
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Founders
10
Employees
College Recruiter
from Minneapolis
started January 1991
1
Founders
10
Employees
market size
$581B
starting costs
$18.9K
gross margin
43%
time to build
270 days
growth channels
Email marketing
business model
content-library
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
24 Pros & Cons
tips
1 Tips
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I’m the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of College Recruiter, which believes that every student and recent graduate deserves a great career.

College Recruiter’s customers are primarily Fortune 1,000 companies, government agencies, and other employers who are hiring at scale, meaning dozens or even hundreds into the same or similar role. They advertise with us their part-time, seasonal, internship, and entry-level jobs that require 0-3 years of experience. Each year, we help more than 3 million students and recent graduates of one-, two-, and four-year colleges and universities find great careers.

The business we operate today is quite different from that which I founded three decades ago. Initially, we published maps of college campuses and sold the advertising around the edges. At any given time, advertised on our site are well over a million early career opportunities in dozens of countries around the world.

We’ve been very, very happy with our growth and can measure that in several ways. In terms of the number of candidates who use our site, that’s up about 10 fold over the past half dozen years. The number of job posting ads is up about 25 fold in that same period. Revenues have tripled while gross and net profits are rapidly...

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