New Recruiting Platform for Entrepreneurial Students

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NEW YORK, July 24 /PRNewswire/ –

FledgeWing.com, a new collaborative online business community, has recently launched. Founded by NYU Stern undergraduates Lewis Drummond and Josh Myers, the company aims to be a ‘one-stop shop’ for university students looking to springboard their entrepreneurial ideas and careers.

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FledgeWing connects students with mentors, early-stage, small and medium-sized businesses, as well as like-minded peers to facilitate the development and launch of innovative new ventures. Aside from student and mentor networking, the site provides a project area for collaboration and interest pages for students to discuss the latest trends in their favourite industries. The site also offers corporate subscriptions and hosts an impressive array of competitions, forums and business articles.

Having already established links with 170 universities worldwide, FledgeWing is attracting a dedicated and passionate talent pool. Partnerships with entrepreneurial clubs and institutes serve to expose both communities to a wider international student audience while a feedback-style rating system ensures quality control for both student users and mentors.

Corporate accounts enable companies not only to recruit the top entrepreneurial minds in universities through selective search criteria, but also to interact dynamically. Firms can post detailed descriptions of pertinent organizational problems they are facing in the ‘case study’ area, gaining innovative solutions as well as an assessment of a student’s business acumen. In addition, companies can have dedicated pages to list their internship opportunities, recruiting events and contact details, as well as host forum discussions.

For students, established mentors, or real world professionals, are on hand to answer their start-up questions and offer business advice while FledgeWing’s comprehensive intellectual property agreement protects their ‘million dollar brainwaves’. Furthermore, the detailed search engine for finding fellow students makes FledgeWing a unique portal for the nurturing of young business minds.

Professionals are offered an exclusive opportunity to see pioneering concepts from bright university thinkers. After speaking with the students, professionals may be interested in bringing them on as interns, recommending them to human resources, or even putting forward seed investment. Moreover, professionals are acting in a socially responsible way by assisting tomorrow’s leaders. Like students, professionals can contribute to FledgeWing at a pace that fits their schedule with no costs or advertising.

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Source: FledgeWing.com

Lewis Drummond, +1-646-620-4038, lewis at FledgeWing.com; or Josh Myers, +1-201-403-8416, josh at FledgeWing.com. Photo: https://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090724/NY51485