CRM News

CAREER GUIDE PRODUCTION
Books and covers keep coming in, and we’re loving it! We are starting to make production status calls to our partner schools to find out how covers and content edits are progressing. At CRM we understand that open lines of communication are important, and we encourage our Career Guide partners to contact us at any time if they have concerns or questions.

Here’s a sneak preview of some of the covers that have been recently finalized:

ACADEMIC EARLY CLOSE DEADLINE
Next week we are expecting to hear from a lot of academic sponsors since May 3^rd is an early reservation deadline. Why so early, you ask? We had our academic sponsors in mind when we set this early close, because we know many of you will be incredibly busy as the school year comes to a close, and then you will be off for a much-deserved summer break.

It has been our experience that we receive calls from interested academic sponsors in the fall, but by then the books are printing and shipping. We simply don’t want you to miss an opportunity to recruit the best and brightest students from the schools we represent.

A BIG CRM THANK YOU
The list of advertisers who have reserved their space is growing by leaps and bounds.

Here’s a big CRM THANK YOU to the following employers and graduate schools who have placed their orders for ad space in the 2010-2011 Career Guides:

• Abbott
• Accenture
• Adler School of Professional Psychology
• Anderson Center for Autism
• Boeing
• Bush School of Government & Public Service, Texas A&M University
• CED, Consolidated Electrical Distributors
• Clarabridge
• Deloitte
• Department of Animal Science, Graduate Program, Texas A&M University
• Graduate Student Services, New Mexico State University
• Grant Thornton LLP
• H. John Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University
• Harris Teeter
• JF Donahue, School of Business, Duquesne University
• Johnson & Johnson
• Lehigh University, College of Arts and Sciences
• Loyola University Maryland
• Mediacom
• Pace Law School
• Publix Super Markets Inc.
• U.S. Coast Guard
• University of California, Irvine
• Wake County Public School System
• Wake Forest University

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This CRM CONGRATULATIONS is going out to our Career Guide partners who met the March 17^th materials deadline, and will be receiving 200 free bonus copies:

• University of Arizona
• California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
• California State University, Chico
• California State University, Fresno
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Irvine
• Carnegie Mellon University
• The Culinary Institute of America
• East Central University
• Grove City College
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Engineering
• University of Notre Dame
• Purdue University
• Stanford University
• The University of Texas at El Paso
• University of Washington
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

We appreciate your efforts to get your materials to us by this date, as it helps us spread out our production schedule so we can offer you the best service possible.

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Another week gone by, and we are happy to report Rutgers liked one of the covers we sent them. After just a few tweaks it was finalized.

We also received beautifully designed and produced covers from The Culinary Institute of America and Stanford University.

Looking at these three covers side-by-side, it would seem there is a theme developing in this year’s covers. Stay tuned to see if the theme continues.

Since our last Career Guide production report the list of advertisers who have reserved their space has grown.

Here’s a big CRM THANK YOU to the following employers and graduate schools who have placed their orders for ad space in the 2010-2011 Career Guides:

• CNA
• Garmin International Inc.
• Internal Revenue Service, Fresno Office
• Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
• Rothstein Kass
• Texas A&M University, College of Education & Human Development (Educational Psychology)
• Thomas Jefferson University
• University of California – Berkeley, MFE Program
• U.S. Air Force/746^th Test Squadron
• U.S. Army Healthcare Team
• U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion – Houston
• U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion – Seattle
• U.S. Coast Guard
• USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service

On a final note, we’d like to note that next week will be the materials deadlines for Adelphi University’s 2010 Job & Internship Expo Guide and St. John’s University’s Spring 2010 Career Fair Guide.

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Materials continue to come in from the schools, and we expect a frenzy of activity around March 17 when our partner schools reach their second production deadline (this one for cover planning).  The cover designs for UC Berkeley and Virginia Tech have been finalized, and we just sent a selection of cover designs to Rutgers for their consideration.

Since our last Career Guide production report the list of advertisers who have reserved their space has grown.

Here’s a big CRM THANK YOU to the following employers and graduate schools who have placed their orders for ad space in the 2010-2011 Career Guides:

• Altria
• Bastyr University
• Blackboard
• The Dow Chemical Company
• Fairleigh Dickinson University
• Georgian Court University
• Iowa State University
• John’s Island Club
• MillerCoors
• Northeastern University, Bouvé Graduate School of Health Science
• RGM Advisors, LLC
• Rutgers University, Professional Science Master’s Program
• Schlumberger
• Southern Methodist University
• Stevens Institute of Technology
• Tate & Tryon
• University of Oregon, School of Law
• The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
• U.S. Coast Guard
• U.S. Navy Recruiting District Pittsburgh

Materials are starting to come in from the schools, so the designing has begun. Notre Dame sent us their school-designed cover last month and we now have the interior of their book in-house for production. We’re currently working on the cover design for Virginia Tech, and received an approval on our cover design for East Central University. We've also sent cover and book designs to an as-yet-undisclosed school that we hope to be able to announce as a new CRM partner very soon.

You might recall an earlier blog post mentioning the dream that someday every CRM partner school would end up with a 100-page, 4-color print publication. We’re making strides toward that goal this year by offering all of our tier one schools complete 4-color interiors.

Here’s a sneak peek at Virginia Tech’s new interior with a significant splash of color added:

Tantalizing, isn’t it? You want to see more, don’t you? Soon enough you will, friends, soon enough.

In addition to editorial production, recruitment advertising production is on the uptick as well. Here’s a big CRM THANK YOU to the following employers and graduate schools who have already placed their orders for ad space in the 2010-2011 Career Guides:

• Applied Research Laboratory/PSU
• Bauer Compressors Inc.
• CBIZ MHM, LLC
• The College of New Jersey-Office of Graduate Studies
• Disney Worldwide Services
• Drexel University, College of Medicine
• El Paso Independent School District
• GEICO
• International Paper
• ITT Corporation
• Jefferson County Public Schools
• Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing
• Marywood University
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• National Institutes of Health
• Novozymes
• Penn State Harrisburg
• Roaring Gap Club Inc.
• SAIC
• Sierra Lobo, Inc.
• Tate & Tryon
• Texas Tech University, Rawls College of Business
• UT Southwestern, School of Health Professions
• Warwick Plumbing and Heating Group
• Westinghouse Electric Company