Services for Employers

The Foothill College Career Center provides the Job Board as a service to the community for recruiting students only.  We wish to provide a space where progressive administrators and managers nationwide can advertise available positions to our community of well-educated and highly trained students.  Please read our Recruitment Policy to determine if your company is eligible to recruit on the Foothill College Campus and on the Foothill College Online Job Board.

Instructions for Posting a Job or Internship Online
The Foothill College Online Job Board – Reach a wider audience by posting your job or internship on the new Foothill College Online Job Board.  The system is free to use, and you will be redirected to a partner site, Plaksa, Inc.

You will need to create an account in order to post your job or internship listing.  Then you can modify and delete postings at your convenience.

Plaksa.com technical support is available 24/7 at support@plaksa.com or call (408) 789-7476.

Instructions for Posting in the Career Center
To post your paid job or internship in the Foothill College Career Center binder, please fax a one-page listing to us at (650) 949-7375.   Your listing will remain in the binder for 30 days.

Instructions for Recruiting On Campus
Talk to and recruit students outside in the Foothill College Campus Center Plaza.  A table will be conveniently located outside the Foothill Bookstore, a high traffic area, free of charge.  A minimum of  one-week advance notice is required.  Table recruiting through the Career Center is reserved for employer hiring only.  If interested, please contact the Career Center at oehkaren@foothill.edu or (650) 949-7229.

Foothill College Employer Recruiting Criteria

To be eligible to recruit students for employment on campus or on the Foothill College Career Center’s Web site, employers must:

1. Be a corporation, a limited liability partnership (L.L.P), a not-for-profit 501C3 organization, a government agency, or an educational institution.
2. Offer jobs that pay a base salary equal to or greater than a minimum wage in compliance with city/county/state/federal labor laws and ordinances.  This base salary must take the form of a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly wage, comprised of a set hourly, weekly, or monthly rate.
3. Not recruit for jobs that offer commission-only compensation.
4. Not require prospective employees to purchase products or services contingent upon their employment with that company.
5. Not be involved in a “pyramid” or multi-level type networking structure requiring or encouraging the recruitment of others who recruit others, etc. to sell products or services.
6. Provide adequate protection to the employee through Worker’s Compensation and/or liability insurance as required by law and in compliance with OSHA regulations.

The Foothill College Career Center reserves the right to change, modify, or add criteria to the above standards as needed.