EarlyTalent

Your students apply. We do the rest.

Career services cannot run a job search for every student. CoBlack can. Every student gets an autonomous search that finds, matches, tailors and applies for them, and your office gets the outcomes on one screen.

Start a free semester How a school onboards

Onboarding free. Every student free for the first semester.

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The moment

You did the work. The market moved.

Of the 7.1 million people out of work in September, 1.3 million were aged 20 to 24. Four in ten recent graduates who find work are in jobs that do not need the degree. And every posting now draws twice the applications it did three years ago.¹ None of that is on you. It is the line you are joining.

All unemployedAged 20 to 24

7.1M1.3M

Out of work, September 2026

Recent graduatesBelow the degree

42%

Underemployed

20222025

116244

Applications for one posting

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What changed

Entry level moved. The search has to move with it.

Employment for 22 to 25 year olds in the occupations most exposed to AI sits 15 to 20 percent below where it would be had it kept pace with their peers in less exposed work. The first rung is narrower than it was two years ago.²

At the same time employers plan to hire 5 to 6 percent more new graduates this year, and 8 to 9 percent more at the largest companies. The jobs exist. They are harder to find and harder to win.

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What your office gets

A portal built for your office.

EarlyTalent is a portal designed for universities. Your colleges are its departments, your students are its roster, class standing and dean sit on every record. Each student uploads a résumé once; Kosmos reads it, marks the profile as early talent, and sets it up one thing at a time. One invite link per cohort, and the counts that matter on one screen: on the platform, searching, interviews and offers as students report them.

You see totals by default. Per-student tracking is opt-in, at signup, by the student. Student data is covered by FERPA, never sold and never used to train anything.

The EarlyTalent portal Home screen for a university: students by college as a bar chart, and tiles for students, students on EarlyTalent, pending graduations, starting this month and ending this month — Home. Your students by college, who is on EarlyTalent, and who starts or finishes this month.

A few questions step: whether the student has built something on their own time, done paid side work or published content regularly — Most student résumés that look empty are not. Three questions find the work a résumé leaves out.

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What the student gets

A search that runs while they study.

The full CoBlack platform. Auto Search finds openings at the source, from 2.7 million live jobs. Auto Match scores each one on capability, not keywords. Auto Resume tailors a résumé per application. Auto Apply sends it. Progress Lab shows what to fix next.³

72x

faster to a shortlist than a manual search, in CoBlack’s proof of concept cohort.

12x

more interviews across the same cohort.

2.7M

live openings in CoBlack’s job index, at last count.

How a school onboards

Lend us one cohort for one term.

Pick the cohort

A graduating class, a department, a program. Your office chooses who, we send one invite link, and every student in it is free for the semester.

Host one session

We onboard the students live, in an hour. Profile, résumé, Capability Map, first campaign running before they leave the room.

Read the report

At the end of the term you get the cohort’s outcomes: applications, interviews, offers as students report them. Then decide.

The economy they enter

About 5 million new jobs by 2034.

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects total employment of about 175 million by 2034, with the fastest growth in healthcare, data and security roles. Information security analyst employment alone is projected to grow 28 to 29 percent.⁴

Those are roles that need the degree your students are earning. CoBlack’s job is to put each student in front of the right ones, every day, so the growth reaches them.

Pricing

Priced with your office, not at you.

Every school lists a different cohort for a different term, so there is no rate card here. Tell us who you want on it, the graduating class or everyone looking now, and we come back with one number and the dates for a free first semester.

Talk to us

Questions

Before you ask.

What does the free semester include?

Everything. Onboarding for your office, a live session for the cohort, the full platform for every student, and the end-of-term report. There is no card and no contract for the pilot.

Can the office see what an individual student is doing?

Only if the student opts in at signup. By default the dashboard shows totals for the cohort. Student data sits under FERPA, is never sold and is never used for training.

How do interviews and offers get counted?

Interviews are read from employer replies to the applications CoBlack sent. Offers are counted as students report them. The report says which is which.

What does it cost after the pilot?

It is priced with your office for the cohort you list, on a one-year agreement. Your office lists who is on it, the graduating class and anyone looking now, and each listed student has the full platform for 12 months. Ask and we send one number.

Does it replace our career services platform?

No. Event boards and employer fairs stay where they are. CoBlack is the part nobody has had: the search itself, run for each student, every day, across every live opening.