by Willy Franzen on June 9, 2009
…you did what Seth Godin proposed today in his blog post entitled Graduate school for unemployed college students?
The answer is somewhere between no one and almost no one.
I don’t often blog about other people’s blog posts here, but this idea is too good not to talk about.
There are certainly some things that I’d like to add to Seth’s list, but in reality the specific actions don’t matter as much as the fact that you’ll be constantly doing. Why do new grads think that law school and perfect résumés are good ways to take risk out of the job search, when there is a set of actions that you can take that will make you a candidate that no one wouldn’t want hire?
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by Willy Franzen on June 8, 2009
This is a guest post by Jason Seiden, our partner in Found Your Career. You can find more from him at JasonSeiden.com.
OK, college grads, here it is: the real deal about finding work in this economy.
Let’s start with the obvious: more than anyone else in three generations, you got macro-screwed with the economy. But you are not only screwed, you are also human… and that means you are resilient as all hell.
The human spirit does not die, and does not wilt, in the face of long term adversity.
Like lupine flowers after a forest fire, the human spirit blooms when challenged. You are going to bloom. In direct defiance of your struggles, you are going to keep driving forward until you bloom bright as all hell, even if it kills you. Why? Because you are human, you are resilient, and you have… no… other… option.
So get ready, this is going to sting. It’s also what you need to get yourself ready for a work life you never expected.
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by Willy Franzen on June 2, 2009
Are your parents bugging you about your job search? Are they more stressed out than you are? Are they trying to help but missing on all marks?
We can help. Jason Seiden and I (ok, he did most of the work) have put together a 10 part video series to help your parents constructively aid you in the job search. This is probably worth watching yourself, but please share it with your parents.
It’s called Why Your College Grad Doesn’t Have a Job Yet. Check it out!
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by Willy Franzen on May 6, 2009
One of the best things about One Day, One Job (for you at least) is that it’s free. Every day you get to learn about a new company and their entry level jobs. With that said, it’s a simple service that doesn’t even start to touch on a lot of the questions that you have in the job hunt. That’s why we built Found Your Career, a 21-day online job search prep course. So far the course has been a hit with the students who have enrolled and the career services professionals who’ve seen it. Still, we’ve found that many of you are hesitant to invest in something without knowing exactly what it is. That’s fair.
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by Willy Franzen on April 29, 2009
We’ve been really busy here at One Day, One Job, which has unfortunately meant that we haven’t been able to publish as many in-depth articles as we’d like to. We have had time to put together a list of 50 Twitter People for Job Seekers to Follow and a report on the Entry Level Hiring Outlook for 2009, but other that we’ve been busy on some other exciting projects. Here are some updates from the past few months.
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by Willy Franzen on January 12, 2009
No, we’re not launching a new site. One Day, One Scholarship might be an awesome idea, but we’re going to stay focused on the area of employment for the foreseeable future. The reason that I’m talking about scholarships today is because Ramit Sethi, personal-finance blogger at I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Founder and VP of Community Marketing at PBwiki, and author of Recruit or Die, e-mailed me to let me know about a scholarship that he (yes, him personally) is offering and to ask me to share the information with you.
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by Willy Franzen on January 7, 2009
As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve spent the last two weeks revisiting companies and non-profits to see what kind of entry level jobs are currently available. I thought that this would be a nice way to finish out the year, as it would provide a good idea of how the current economic conditions have affected entry level hiring. This was by no means a scientific study, but there were some key takeaways that I discovered after looking at the Jobs pages of 347 companies and non-profit organizations.
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by Willy Franzen on December 23, 2008
As Jason Seiden and I have been working on developing a training course that is going to help you solve your problem of not having a job, Jason has also been working on solving a much more… ummm… urgent problem.
See, Jason recently added a bulldog puppy named Lenny to his family. She’s adorable, but she has this bad habit of peeing/pooping/throwing up in the house. She also has trouble sleeping alone. These two problems together have made Jason’s life extra stressful (the dog has him totally whipped), so he decided to solve the problems (RSS and e-mail folks, click through if you can’t see the video).
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by Willy Franzen on December 18, 2008
by Willy Franzen on December 11, 2008
The Random Number Generator spoke, and Tony Eversole of Richmond, KY is the winner of our HP Magic Giveaway Contest. I spoke with Tony on the phone today, and he sounded beyond excited. He’s keeping his plans for what he’s going to do with the prize package quiet until after Christmas (he likes surprising people), but he is all about paying it forward. He promised me that we’ll get the whole story in a few weeks. I can’t wait!
Oh, and before you click away with your head hanging in shame, we want to give you all a special offer for participating in the contest. Since the entries were so good, and so many of you are working hard to help friends find jobs, we want to help you both out. If you or your friend is struggling with the job search, you can sign up to get a special discount on our soon to be released job search training course. It may not be a $6,000+ package from HP, but it will be worth a lot more than that in the long run.
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by Willy Franzen on December 10, 2008
What’s assessment?
It comes from two root words ass and essment. Ass because it’s going to make you feel like one. And essment for, ok, let’s get real…
From Wikipedia:
Assessment is the process of documenting, usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs.
Assessment is important because it’s what the job search process is all about.
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by Willy Franzen on December 4, 2008
The contest is now over and comments have been closed. The winner has been announced here. To see how we’re putting this comments into helping more people find jobs, please check out our job search training course.
We are giving away $6,000+ in HP, Microsoft, and Corel products. Continue reading to find out how one of you will win the entire package.
Last week, my business partner, Jason Seiden, and I were talking about the job search training course that we’re working on. I had told him that I recently received “thank you tweets” from two One Day, One Job readers who had landed jobs at companies that I wrote about. We both agreed that there’s nothing more rewarding than helping someone find and land a job. This sparked an idea. Since the HP Magic Giveaway is all about “paying it forward,” we should build a contest where the winner is rewarded for paying it forward (even if it’s with the end goal of winning a prize).
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by Willy Franzen on December 1, 2008
Two weeks ago I told about the upcoming release of a job search training course that I’ve been developing. I also told you that I brought in a partner to make sure that this course is a comprehensive learning tool that will give you a completely revamped approach finding a job. I was going to introduce you to him last week, but I didn’t want you to be distracted by a trip home for Thanksgiving, so I waited an extra week. This guy is like that bad ass personal trainer who pushes you so hard that you almost throw up in the middle of your workout but for job search. So let me tell you a little bit about him and how you can get a free PDF version of his book, How to Self Destruct.
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by Willy Franzen on November 24, 2008
It’s only been a week and a half since One Day, One Job started it’s second year, and we’re already on to our second major announcement. Last week we announced that we’ve begun working on a job search training course, and today we’re announcing that we’ve been selected to take part in The HP Magic Giveaway! We’ve done giveaways before (a Wii and an iPod Touch), but this is on a whole new level. We think that technology is essential to a smart job search, but we know that you’re probably still using that computer that you got before your Freshman year of college. We want to help you make an upgrade, and HP has enabled us to make that happen for one of you.
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by Willy Franzen on November 17, 2008
Last Wednesday was our birthday, and we want to celebrate with you. Since we sold the corporate jet as part of our “Green Initiative,” we’re going to skip flying you all out for the party and go straight to the party favors. Our first thought was to give you all jobs, but with the economy the way it is, we, much like many other companies, are currently under a “hiring freeze” (said with tongue in cheek, of course). Instead we’re going to help you become that “red hot” candidate (not in that way) who instantly thaws the hiring freeze as soon as your resume hits the company’s inbox, so read on to find out what you’re getting…
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by Willy Franzen on November 12, 2008
Maybe it’s because of this post or maybe it’s the economy, but I’m getting a lot more e-mails asking specific questions about job search. This is great, because I love hearing what job searchers are having the most difficulty with. The two questions that I get asked most often are: “How do you find all of the jobs that you post about?” and “How do I stand out when my resume is one of hundreds or even thousands?”
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by Willy Franzen on November 12, 2008
If you’ve been looking at our archive of entry level jobs, you may have noticed that today is our birthday. One Day, One Job officially launched one year ago today with a post about jobs at InsideTrack and an article about How to Use Google to Find a Job. That means that we’ve now profiled 367 companies/organizations and their entry level jobs (leap year plus today’s post). That’s something that we’re proud of, especially because we’ve reached almost a quarter of a million people with our employer profiles and articles in just a year. That’s why we have a major celebration planned, but it’s not quite ready.
Come Monday, you’ll get the first glimpse into what we’ve been working on and where we plan to take ODOJ in its second year. Don’t worry, we’re going to keep up with what we’re doing, but we want to try some new things that will help you elevate your job search to the next level. Feel free to wish us a Happy Birthday by leaving a comment below, but be sure to come back on Monday to see how we’re celebrating.
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by Willy Franzen on November 3, 2008
This post is part of Job Action Day, “a day of empowerment for workers and job-seekers,” that is aimed to help you “put your career and job in the forefront, making plans, taking action steps.”
I was an anti-social job searcher. I never stepped foot in my college’s Career Services office. I didn’t want to talk to my parents about jobs. I never attended any Career Fairs. I was too embarrassed to tell my friends how much I was struggling with finding jobs that interested me. I was relying almost entirely on the Internet for my job search needs, and it wasn’t helping. Eventually, I quit. I decided that I was going to make online job search better by building a resource that I would have wanted to use during my job search. I empowered myself to face a problem and solve it, and in a few short months I went from knowing nothing about job search even though I needed a job, to knowing a ton about job search despite the fact that I was no longer looking.
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by Willy Franzen on October 31, 2008
Ok, I’m not one for fabricated holidays – especially when they’re crammed between two real holidays like Halloween an Election Day, but this one is important (and it doesn’t require sending anyone any gifts). It’s called Job Action Day, and it’s this Monday. It was initiated by Randall S. Hansen, the founder and publisher of Quintessential Careers, and he has invited me to participate in Job Action Day 2008, which is set for this Monday, November 3rd. I’m excited to be a part of this, because it’s a day for job-seekers and workers to confront the current economic crisis head-on and take action steps to improve their careers. (You can read the full press release here.)
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by Willy Franzen on October 21, 2008
Congratulations to Alex Payne, a recent graduate of Duke University. He won the iPod Touch in our Tell a Friend, Win an iPod Touch Contest. You may remember Alex from our article on Using Facebook Ads for Job Search, as he was one of the initial participants in the experiment. His number was picked randomly by Microsoft Excel’s Random Number Generator, but we have to say that we’re happy to see him win.
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by Willy Franzen on October 7, 2008
Today is my birthday, and since I run this show, I want to extend the celebration to all of you. There’s nothing that I want more for my birthday than for you to tell your friends about One Day, One Job and One Day, One Internship (sad, I know). Unfortunately, instead of that, I got an iPod Touch. That’d be really sweet, except I already have an iPhone. (Ok, I didn’t really get the iPod Touch for my birthday. I won it in a guest blogging contest on The Talent Buzz with a post about networking on Twitter, but let’s pretend it was a birthday gift.) Since I think that regifting is completely acceptable, I’m willing to trade my iPod Touch for your telling your friends about one or both of our sites. I want to give everybody a chance to win, so we’re going to turn this into a little contest.
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by Willy Franzen on September 22, 2008
Looking for your first job can be confusing. It’s hard to know what to search for, and even if you do find a job that looks interesting, it’s hard to tell if you have the required experience to actually land the job. Here on One Day, One Job, we write about entry level jobs for new college gradates. If you’re a college student or a new college grad, then you’re in the right place. We’re going to take a look at the intricacies of what “entry level” really means, and help you figure out how to determine what companies really mean when they list experience requirements on a job posting. If you’re a teen who is still in high school, you’ll be better off looking at MyFirstPaycheck.com – Jobs for Teens for advice and job opportunities.
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by Willy Franzen on September 16, 2008
by Willy Franzen on September 3, 2008
If you pay any attention to the news, you might think that anyone who is looking for a job should immediately cancel his or her Facebook membership and never sign up again. Headlines read: Bank Intern Busted by Facebook, Employers Look at Facebook Too, and Employers Snoop on Facebook. There’s rarely anything new in the stories, but somehow they continue to pop up in all sorts of media outlets. More and more companies are using Facebook as a recruiting tool (and those who aren’t yet should hire us to help them), but for the most part any press that has included the words “employer” and “Facebook” has been negative. Not anymore.
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by Willy Franzen on August 7, 2008
Here at One Day, One Job, we’re always trying to figure out how to make it easier for college students to find great entry-level jobs. Networking is one of the best ways to land a job, and online social networking sites make networking a lot easier. We’ve found a few really exciting ways to integrate social networking site into your job search – some of which we’ve already mentioned in articles and posts. Other techniques we’re still researching and experimenting with, and we’ll be bringing those to you in article form soon. We’ve also come up with a new idea that you won’t even need to read about to use.
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by Willy Franzen on July 23, 2008
We often hear from new college grads that they’re not sure what kind of jobs are relevant to their college major. The beauty of many entry-level jobs is that your college major doesn’t matter much at all. There are a ton of jobs out there that will let you start fresh; but what if you feel committed to trying to put your education to good use? A few months ago we added tags to all of our posts to make it easier for you to navigate the hundreds of entry-level employers whom we’ve featured. In this post we’re going to link those tags to specific college majors.
Our list of college majors comes directly from the 2004-2005 U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Higher Education General Information Survey. We’ve also included the number of graduates for each major to give you an idea of what kind of competition you’re facing. The tags pages that we’ve linked to our based our opinions of which employers match up best with each educational background.
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by Willy Franzen on July 21, 2008
This book review is a guest post by Makafui Fiavi. She is a Junior Policy Analysis and Global Health major at Cornell University. One day, she would like to work in the area of healthcare delivery for an international organization such as the World Health Organization, World Vision, or CARE. In her spare time she enjoys hanging out with friends, reading, and learning how to play the guitar. If you would like to guest post for One Day, One Job or One Day, One Internship by writing a book review, employer profile, or blog post, please e-mail info@onedayonejob.com.
If you’re browsing the library or bookstore shelves this summer for career advice, you should definitely check out How to Get Any Job with Any Major by Donald Asher. I was personally drawn to the book sub-title, Career Launch and Re-launch for Everyone Under 30 (or how to avoid living in your parents’ basement). For someone who believed for a long time that the choice of a major in college defines or delimits the types of jobs you have in the real world, I was curious to see what insight the author had to offer.
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by Willy Franzen on July 18, 2008
If you’re wondering what happened with this experiment, you can find all of the results in our post titled Use Facebook Ads to Make Employers Hunt You Down. There is a complete tutorial on how to use the method that we based the experiment on, so you no longer need to comment if you want to participate. You can just read about it and try it yourself. Be sure to let us know how it works for you.
A couple weeks ago we came up with an off the wall job search idea that we want to test. Since we’re not job searching ourselves, we’re looking for 10 volunteers who would like to be part of an experiment. This idea is pretty “out there,” but we think that it has the potential to be extremely effective. Participation will require a small time commitment (maybe an hour or two), but should be well worth it. We’ll be helping and coaching you along the way to ensure that you make the most out of our idea.
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by Rich Jones on July 9, 2008
You’re coaxed to login multiple times every day by the steady stream of e-mails. People have written on your wall, sent you private messages, commented on your pictures, tagged you in notes. Facebook is as addictive as a pack of cigarettes to a nicotine hungry smoker. You add a variety of information about yourself ranging from how you are feeling to where you are working. You probably have at least three bumper stickers (I have about 12). When you take a good picture, or something cool happens in real life, you probably think about how long it will be until you can upload it to Facebook. Your profile is you. People can have a favorable or unpleasant impression of you before they meet you in person based solely on your Facebook profile. You must keep it fresh. You cannot and will not be a lame bucket of blandness. Your page needs to show who you are (or who you want to be). Your Internet social status depends on it. This is your life.
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