ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University is joining with organizations that offer career and employment services to form the Cornell Recruitment Partnership. The partnership was created to offer a new, inclusive gateway to career opportunities at Cornell.

The objective of the Cornell Recruitment Partnership (CRP), organizers say, is to promote career opportunities at Cornell through strategic, diverse and communication-focused partnerships with local, regional and national career-services organizations that help connect talented people with career opportunities. The CRP's efforts will expand on earlier employment initiatives spearheaded by Cornell's offices of Workforce Diversity, Equity and Life Quality and Community Relations and will increase access to career opportunities at Cornell.

CRP, a program of the Recruitment and Employment Center in Cornell's Office of Human Resources, will have its first meeting with partnering organizations Wednesday, March 31, in the Borg Warner Room West of the Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca, NY.

Organizations that assist qualified people with employment searches and are interested in joining the partnership should contact the Recruitment and Employment Center at (607) 254-8370 or employment_svcs@cornell.edu to register for the meeting or receive more information.

Membership in CRP will provide partner organizations with timely, comprehensive and customized approaches to exploring career opportunities at the university. Membership organizations will receive benefits such as: on-site "Employment at Cornell" informational programs; having their organization's directory listings put in Cornell's Web-based recruitment resource directory; career-search preparation and recruiter roundtable programs; and biannual CRP membership meetings.

For more information on CRP, contact the Recruitment and Employment Center at Cornell, (607) 254-8370, or visit this Web site: http://www.ohr.cornell.edu/jobs/index.html .

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EDITORS: To set up an interview on the Cornell Recruitment Partnership with Constance Thompson, manager of recruitment and diversity, Recruitment and Employment Center at Cornell, contact her at (607) 254-8370, or contact Simeon Moss, Cornell News Service, at (607) 255-3630.