- August 2008 - GoliathJobs was featured in The Palm Beach Post:
Out-of-work alumni turning to schools for help
By ALLISON ROSS
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Copyright © 2008 The Palm Beach Post. All Rights Reserved.
August 07, 2008
Kathleen O'Rourke/Staff Photo
"More alums are out of work now ... and they're looking for different means to find a job," said David Mezzapelle, founder of GoliathJobs.com, a free online employment service for students and alumni that lets employers list vacancies on college Web sites.
Click here to read the entire article.
- July 2008 - GoliathJobs was featured in the Wall Street Journal:
Back to School - For Career Advice
Managing Your Career
July 1, 2008
By Joann Lublin
Copyright © 2008 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Not-so-recent college graduates are demanding more career assistance from their former schools as they face tougher employment markets, and universities have begun to respond by creating job-search programs.
GoliathJobs, and GoliathJobsOver50, are at the center of the buzz with the leading job board and career services platform. Here is a link to the full article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121485622574117001.html?mod=CarJMain_topmiddle
- July 2008 - Check out the GoliathJobs "Trends in Online Recruiting & Generational Demographics" lecture. UCONN Graduate School of Business: http://goliathjobs.com/uploads/RecruiterSummitLecture.pdf
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June 2008 - David Mezzapelle was appointed to the Board of The WorkPlace, Connecticut's Regional Workforce Development Council:
The WorkPlace, Inc. Has Appointed David Mezzapelle To Serve on It’s Board
Contact: Jennifer Porter
GoliathJobs, Inc.
jporter@goliathjobs.com
DAVID MEZZAPELLE HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO THE BOARD OF THE WORKPLACE, INC.
STAMFORD, Conn. June 20, 2008 — David Mezzapelle, Founder & Director of Marketing at GoliathJobs, has been appointed to the Board of The WorkPlace, Inc. The WorkPlace serves as Connecticut’s regional workforce development council and has a national profile.
Joseph M. Carbone (President & CEO), along with Mayor Dan Malloy of Stamford and other state officials, felt that Mezzapelle was a natural fit for this position. “David’s entrepreneurial and innovative spirit, community-minded values and past success make him a clear choice for our board. His vision of the employment sector parallels our mission. He brings fresh powerful ideas that will help to shape our continued innovation in preparing people for careers and strengthening the region’s competitiveness into the future,” said Mr. Carbone.
Mission,
The mission of The WorkPlace is to develop a well educated, well trained, and self-sufficient workforce that can compete in the changing global marketplace. Essential to our mission is the creation of a seamless, coordinated system of education, training and employment that is customer centered and easily accessible; meets the needs both of employers for employable people and of persons who face barriers to the kind of employment that provides economic self-sufficiency; has a high level of commitment and collaboration from business, education, government and community agencies including economic development, employment and training, and human services; and has defined goals and performance standards. Mezzapelle has significant experience in all these areas.
Planning and Coordination,
Every few years, The WorkPlace works with a wide scope of business leaders, local officials and other stakeholders to develop a workforce development plan in which Connecticut’s employment needs and interests are identified and addressed. In addition, The WorkPlace reviews the plans of state departments and the proposals of local agencies seeking state funds to ensure that activities are consistent with the region’s workforce development plan.
Mezzapelle will continue to serve as Director of Marketing at GoliathJobs and GoliathJobsOver50.
For more information about this announcement please visit the GoliathJobs website at http://www.goliathjobs.com or email Jennifer Porter at jporter@goliathjobs.com.
About The WorkPlace, Inc:
The WorkPlace helps people prepare for careers and strengthens the workforce for employers. It administers and coordinates job training & education programs to meet the needs of residents and employers in the region and beyond.
About GoliathJobs & GoliathJobsOver50:
GoliathJobs is a free web-based employment service for students & alumni. We connect employers to active & passive job seekers via schools, alma maters, professional associations, social networks & other job boards. GoliathJobsOver50, launching soon, is a dedicated employment portal for baby boomers & retirees.
- November 2007 - GoliathJobs was the business cover story in several newspapers including the Greenwich Time, Stamford/Norwalk Advocate and Connecticut Post:
From College to a Career
Free website helps students, alumni find employment
November 21, 2007
By Harold Davis
Special Correspondent
Copyright © 2007 Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc.
Kathleen O'Rourke/Staff photo
David Mezzapelle, Founder & Director of Marketing for Stamford-based GoliathJobs.com, connects job seekers and employers with a simple, safe & free service.
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 schools around the country. The site carries job postings in all industries such as healthcare, education, business, technology 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 huge peace of mind for employers, and it’s creating 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 in North America will be over 50,” he said.
Based in Stamford, GoliathJobs.com employs about 20 and has another office in Jupiter, Fla.
Copyright © 2007 Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. Used with permission.
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October 2007 - David Mezzapelle was the featured guest on Greenwich Radio in Connecticut during drive-time. The topic was "GoliathJobs" and the benefits it provides to employers, schools & job seekers across all industries and demographics. Sound byte of that show will be added here shortly.
- February 2008 - GoliathJobs kicks off baseball season by sponsoring opening day. David Mezzapelle, along with other staff members from the Jupiter Fla office, spent the day at Roger Dean Stadium for the official opening day ceremonies. The first game was between the Florida Marlins and Univ of Miami.
