About EON: The Employment Opportunity Network

- What is the Employment Opportunity Network?
- How does it work?
- What does it cost?
- Who can (or can't) be a Member?
- Becoming an EON Member

What is the Employment Opportunity Network?

Launched by IMDiversity in experimental form in early 2002, the Employment Opportunity Network (EON) initiative was envisioned as a win-win, non-commercial community effort to disseminate timely job information and promotes workforce diversity. 

Through MEMBERSHIP, organizations in our diverse communities share the benefits of IMDiversity's advanced Career Center technology, free opportunities listings, and long-standing expertise in diversity recruitment.  They also help IMDiversity build an ever-widening hiring pool of job candidates that diversity-sensitive employers want to reach.

How It Works

EON MEMBERS provide valuable service to their audiences by adding Career Center buttons or simple job-search programming to their web site and encouraging employment-seekers to review the many thousands of opportunities and profiles posted by employers who actively seek to recruit diverse talent by using IMDiversity's services.  Job-seekers can also use our free, custom MY JOB TOOLS Accounts to post employer-searchable resumes, get automated job alert emails, research companies and salary information, and more.  Finally, they find career, news and cultural content created by, for and about our communities -- with the same substance and integrity we've upheld since launching the respected BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine over 30 years ago.

IMDiversity prominently recognizes and reciprocates MEMBERS' dedication through spotlight profiles on our Multicultural Villages, "co-sponsor" credit on targeted jobs and content features, and publicizing their relevant feature content, news or events to our communities and diversity employers.  Although EON is NOT designed to be a commercial "affiliates program," many MEMBERS are also able to leverage a new EON Career Center click into new sponsorship or employment advertising opportunities for their own sites if they so choose, and IMDiversity has worked with some organizations interested in such an arrangement in the past.  EON Members are also entitled to post two free announcements of employment, internship or volunteer positions in their organization per year to the searchable jobs databases on IMDiversity.com or THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online.

What Does It Cost?

Nothing.  EON was conceived as a non-commercial, voluntary collaboration between IMDiversity and simpatico organizations representing our diverse communities.  A cooperative relationship between IMDiversity and the MEMBER is established through an informal, mutual agreement laid out in a simple letter of understanding, as opposed to a legal contract.  We agree to freely exchange traffic and promotions in terms that remain in effect only so long as both sites determine it is mutually beneficial to do so.

Who Can Become a Member?

Pilot EON MEMBERS have included minority-serving professional and student networking organizations, ethnic media and small businesses, arts and advocacy groups, mainstream career services sites, and even some individuals. What we share is a common interest in helping diverse job-seekers and equal opportunity employers of all kinds connect.  From professional networks to downsizing companies, college career planning offices to multicultural newspapers, state unemployment offices to ethnic cultural 'zines, student clubs to individual bloggers --almost any organization dedicated to assisting diverse job-seekers could be a good candidate for Membership.

The usual culprits will definitely not become EON members: Spammers, pornographers, fly-by-night and get-rich-quick commercial jobbies, and anyone who tries to engage us in selling stuff for them on commission, spam our users, etc.

Becoming a Member

To inquire about becoming a MEMBER, please email stewart @ imdiversity.com using the exact subject heading "IMDPartnerships" (without quotation marks).  Please do NOT send attachments to your email, or it is likely to be delayed or waylaid.  Provide your URL and contact information, and tell us what we need to know about your site or organization mission and audiences. 

We review your organization's site and, assuming we find that its content, activities and traffic seem relevant and of value to the diverse community audiences and employers we represent, we'll get in touch with you.