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It wasn’t long ago that good help was very hard to find in a tight labor market. That was “then” and this is certainly “now”. With what many critics consider the watershed of the downturn in America’s economy reaching its one year anniversary, and unemployment dancing around the 10% mark; graduates are finding it much harder than expected to find employment. Colleges have an option to solve this issue via outsourcing graduate placement through the specialized placement firm, Career Service Solutions, Inc.

Most colleges have a career services department tasked with helping place students in related employment after graduation. The issue currently is that it takes much longer to find any jobs for graduates and the promise of employment related to what the student’s academic concentration is even more challenging. In addition to the frustration of students unable to find a job after graduation, accredited colleges may find themselves with placement ratios below their accrediting agency’s minimum acceptable level. Career Service Solutions, Inc., commonly referred to as CSS, provides an outsourced solution that can augment or replace a college's career services department.

CSS, leverages a nationwide network of seasoned placement specialists to aid in the search for a suitable position for graduates. The shared services staffing model and use of Web 2.0 technology provides an efficient sourcing and placement model aimed at providing faster results. Enrolled students of CSS client schools also have access to proprietary online career preparation resources and courses to ensure that students are familiar with many of the best practices they will need to find employment after graduation.

If you would like to learn more about Career Service Solutions, Inc., go to http://www.placestudents.com/

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Career Service Solutions, Inc. is Florida firm specializing in placing graduates into positions for client colleges and schools.


Over 13 million school half days are lost due to unauthorised absence across the UK each year

Fairisle Junior School in Southampton is taking a proactive approach to improving pupil attendance with Truancy Call (www.truancycall.com) - technology which allows school staff to make first-day contact with parents of absent children by email, text

This technology is also helping the school meet the Governments targets within the 2008/09 National Attendance Strategy, and is a further measure in safeguarding pupil welfare.

Over 13 million school half days are lost due to unauthorised absence across the UK each year. A huge increase in the number of primary school children missing classes has been blamed on parents booking family holidays during term time. In 2003-04 there were fewer than 600,000 unauthorised absences in primary schools. By 2006-07 this had jumped to over 700,000.

Maintaining good communication with parents is key to the success of a schools anti-truancy strategy, so schools should engage them in the very earliest stages of absenteeism. By installing Truancy Call, Fairisle Junior School a primary school with 291 pupils is taking positive steps to achieve this.

Once registration has been completed, the Truancy Call system automatically calls, texts or emails parents until a response is received. Once a response is received any further calls that day are stopped automatically.

Mr Peter Howard, Headteacher at Fairisle Junior School, said: Truancy Call is so effective because its immediate. It has freed up time for the administration staff who no longer have to be on the phone all the time and it has made a real difference to our unauthorised absence levels. We have had a very pleasing reaction from the parents as the system reminds them that they must inform the school straight away if their child is absent. Previously we had to call all the parents individually but now we press a button and Truancy Call does the job for us.

Stephen Clarke, Managing Director of Truancy Call, commented: Fairisle Junior School appreciates the necessity of contacting parents on the first day of their childs absence. If the Government and schools are to continue successfully tackling truancy, it is vital that they implement early prevention strategies, so that children taking the odd day off here and there can be quickly identified, and the problem resolved before it gets to a stage when a child is persistently truanting.

For more information on how Truancy Call can benefit your school please call 0870 046 4246, email: sales@truancycall.com or visit the website: www.truancycall.com.

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About Truancy Call Ltd:

Truancy Call Ltd (www.truancycall.com) provides an automated parent notification system used by over 1,000 schools throughout the UK to provide first-day-contact with parents of truants (via SMS text messages, direct voice calling and email).
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