3. Piazza Careers
Social learning platform Piazza announced Piazza Careers, its new recruiting platform that aims to transform how college students and employers connect. Companies including Box, Hearsay Social, Palantir, SpaceX and Yelp have already begun using the platform to develop relationships with talented college students, drawing from a pool of more than a million students who have used Piazza.
Piazza Careers’ latest round of funding will be directed towards R&D and marketing efforts.
Piazza Careers builds on the growth of Piazza’s Q&A platform. Enrollments in Piazza classes grew 223 percent between the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 academic years, from 236,000 to 762,000. Engagement on Piazza has remained high, with students continuing to spend an average of two-three hours per night on the platform. More than half the undergraduates—including almost all of the engineering majors—at Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Princeton and Georgia Tech use Piazza.
Employing Piazza’s database of students’ academic histories, Piazza Careers can connect students to peers on campus and beyond, to recent alumni who have similar academic backgrounds, and to hiring managers at companies, non-profits, or research labs.
Because Piazza engages students in hundreds of colleges and tens of thousands of classes, Piazza Careers lets hiring managers zero in on students who meet their precise criteria regardless of which school they attend, broadening companies’ reach while presenting students at regional schools with a wider range of opportunities than they have ever had.
Piazza Careers also respects students’ privacy so interactions with potential employers occur on an opt-in basis. Academic graduate programs and non-profits can use Piazza Careers for free to contact interested students while for-profit companies pay for the service.
As always, individual instructors and students can sign up for Piazza for free at https://piazza.com. Hiring managers can learn more about Piazza Careers at https://recruiting.piazza.com.
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