NEW ELECTRONIC RECRUITING NETWORK GIVES EMPLOYERS ACCESS
TO JOB CANDIDATES THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHEAST

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 8 -- A new consortium of 21
universities is giving corporate recruiters something they have
never had before: the ability to screen more than 400,000 potential
job candidates and interview top prospects in a 12-state area
without leaving their home territories.
	Career center directors at universities in the Atlantic
Coast Conference and the Southeastern-Atlantic Coast Conference are
using the Internet and the latest in video-conferencing technology
to bring recruiters and students together electronically.  The
universities have formed a consortium, the Southeastern-Atlantic
Coast Career Network (SEACnet) that has established a home page on
the World Wide Web.  Starting Aug. 1, when people contact SEACnetÕs
home page (http://www.virginia.edu/~seacnet), they will have their
choice of two menus.
	The student menu will provide information about the
universitiesÕ career centers, potential employers and graduate and
professional schools.
	The employer menu will allow recruiters to search for
potential job candidates by state, major or degree programs.  A
recruiter searching for German-speaking electrical engineering
graduates with a 3.9 GPA, for example, would complete an on-line
form, and within seconds, the request would be forwarded to the
universities.  The recruiter would receive the student rsums via
mail, computer disk, fax or e-mail.
	After viewing the studentsÕ rsums and deciding who to
interview, recruiters will use the second prong of SEACnetÕs
high-tech efforts: by going to the career center at the nearest
consortium member, they will sit in front of a specially equipped
computer and interview candidates face-to-face in real time.  Called
InterVIEW, the interactive video-conferencing system displays the
candidatesÕ faces on the right side of the computer screen and their
rsums on the left.  The video-interviewing arrangements will be
completed by Sept. 1.
	ÒThe consortiumÕs electronic recruiting network will give
employers access to potential job candidates among the most
prestigious schools in the Southeast,Ó said Jim Neumeister, a 1994
U.Va. grad who postponed Notre Dame law school for a year to
organize the high-tech efforts.
	SEACnet members include the following universities:
Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Clemson, Duke, Florida, Florida State,
Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisiana State, Maryland,
Mississippi, Mississippi State, North Carolina, North Carolina
State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Virginia and Wake
Forest.
	ÒSEACnet delivers a win-win situation for both students and
recruiters.  Students will gain a tremendous amount of useful
information for making job or graduate school decisions.  Employers
will be able to recruit top-level candidates in a cost-effective and
time-efficient manner,Ó Neumeister said.
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August 7, 1995
	FOR MORE INFORMATION, contact Neumeister at (804) 924-8900.
Key career center directors in the consortium include: Larry
Simpson, U.Va., (804) 924-8900; Wayne Wallace, Florida, (904)
392-1601; John Hannabach, Georgia Tech, (404) 849-3754; Bob
Greenburg, Tennessee, (615) 974-5435; Marcia Harris, North Carolina,
(919) 962-6507; and Jim Kellen, Alabama, (205) 348-5848.