“From College to a Career” - Recent press about GoliathJobs in several newspapers
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David Mezzapelle, Founder & Director of Marketing for Stamford-based GoliathJobs.com, connects job seekers and employers with a simple, safe & free service.
From College to a Career
Free website helps students, alumni find employment
By Harold Davis
Special Correspondent
November 21, 2007
Landing a good job right out of college can be tough, and graduates can spend months finding career-track employment.
But David Mezzapelle of Stamford hopes to smooth the transition with his website, GoliathJobs.com.
GoliathJobs.com is a free site where employers can post job openings and students & alumni can respond, said Mezzapelle, Founder and Director of Marketing at the Stamford-based company.
The site generates revenue through web advertising and focus groups.
Mezzapelle is currently on the road promoting GoliathJobs to colleges and universities around the country. The site carries job postings in industries such as healthcare, education, business, automotive and the nonprofit sector.
Mezzapelle, 39, caught the entrepreneurial bug early on and created Goliath Technology at age 22, a software distribution and licensing firm in Stamford, shortly after graduating from Fairfield University.
Valuing his time spent as intern with IBM, Mezzapelle looked to enlist college interns to work for him at his growing enterprise.
“I bought Barron’s Book of Colleges in 1990 and faxed about 3,300 schools looking for college interns. Within six months we had a fantastic team throughout North America,” Mezzapelle said of Goliath Technology, which he sold in July.
Mezzapelle thought he could make his success in recruiting interns work for others, especially with the growth of the Internet.
“I saw how powerful it was. I wanted to create a website that would bring students and alumni together with employers,” said Mezzapelle, a Stamford resident.
GoliathJobs.com is a spam-free site offering a verification screening system called myStudents Verification, through which schools can verify that a student’s records are credible to potential employers. Mezzapelle said the verification feature is being praised by employers because it saves them steps in screening applicants.
“It’s a huge peace of mind for the employers, and it’s creating a buzz around the country. It also gives (GoliathJobs) job seekers an edge over other job seekers,” Mezzapelle said.
Fred Gill, senior human resources specialist with Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City, began using the Goliath site a few weeks ago and is very impressed.
“The thing I enjoy about his site is that it gives a good profile of the individual and the school, even if I’m not familiar with them. It’s an added tool that the other (job) boards don’t have,” Gill said.
Gill said the MTA has 16 jobs posted on the site, seeking applicants for entry-level positions in areas such as electrical engineering. He likes GoliathJobs‘ focus on niche recruiting from colleges because the MTA is looking to attract attention from that demographic. He also said he likes receiving e-mail alerts on who has responded to the job posts.
Judson Saviskas, alumni career administrator with the Fairfield University’s Office of Alumni Relations, said other job boards don’t deliver the specific benefit that the Goliath site does.
“Large job boards like Monster can be unwieldy and pretty unproductive. You can go to Monster and you look up account executive. You get tons of listings, but you can’t verify if they’re real jobs,” Saviskas said.
Mezzapelle hopes to introduce a new site, GoliathJobsOver50.com, in January. Saviskas believes it will be a hit since he has received requests from long-graduated alums to verify their academic credentials.
“Healthcare is a huge area because of sheer supply and demand. In 10 years, two thirds of the healthcare staff will be over 50,” he said.
Based in Stamford, GoliathJobs.com employs about 20 and has another office in Jupiter, Fla.
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