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Every day we profile a new entry level employer, and every day we tag our posts to make it easier for you to find jobs and companies that interest you. The following companies have offered entry level jobs in job search in the past, and they are likely to do so in the future.
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!
Although Alison Doyle has done a nice job of starting to build a list of Career Experts and Job Sites on Twitter, I haven’t seen any “must follow” lists for job seekers. That’s why I decided to make one. The first half of the list consists of 25 people that I think that every job seeker on Twitter should be following, while the second half offers more general recommendations on what types of people you should be following to help your job search. The list is in no particular order, and it’s nowhere near exhaustive. If you have suggestions, I’d love to see them in the comments.
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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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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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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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Two weeks ago we brought you the results of our job search experiment in an article titled Use Facebook Ads to Make Employers Hunt You Down (don’t want to read it, listen to my interview about the experiment with Chris Russell from Secrets of the Job Hunt podcast). We found that Facebook ads were an extremely effective medium for catching an employer’s attention. This week, LinkedIn, a professional networking site, announced their own advertising platform. That begged the obvious question: Can LinkedIn be used in a similar way to target employers with ads that link to your resumé?
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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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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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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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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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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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Welcome to our second One Day, One Job Book Review. Our first review was of Alison Doyle’s Internet Your Way to a New Job, and today we’re going to discuss Lindsey Pollak’s Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World. The book may sound like a checklist (it even has boxes that you can check off as you complete the tasks), but it’s actually a great read. Lindsey’s insights are exceptional, and the tips are some of the best I’ve come across.
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It’s been a while since my last entry on One Day, One Job, but I thought that it was worth revisiting a topic that I wrote about back in February – Using the Internet to Become the Candidate of Choice. Executive bios and news releases are great research tools, but the Investor Relations pages on the websites of publicly traded companies provide a wealth of information about how a company is doing and what direction they are planning to take over the next year. Admittedly, the information found in investor relations is not as easy to digest as what you might see on a Recent News page, but clever deductions from Investor Relations information can pay dividends in an interview, pun intended.
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We keep hearing from readers that one of the hardest parts about a post-college job search is finding jobs specific to a given location. They know where they want to live, and, damn it, they’re going to live there no matter what it takes. Do you share that mindset? Maybe you’re dead set on living the New York City life after graduation, or you love windsurfing in the summer and snowboarding in the winter and have to be near somewhere like Hood River, OR to stay sane. Maybe you’ve decided to live with your parents to save money, or you have a significant other who is going to graduate school in a new city. There are a wide range of reasons that new college grads have for deciding on a location before they find a job, but the job search tactics and techniques for finding a locations specific job are the same regardless of the reasons.
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We keeps saying that we’re going to put together a “One Day, One Job Book Store” with our recommendations for job search related reading, but we keep putting it off for other projects. Well, our hand was forced when we came across Alison Doyle’s new book, Internet Your Way to a New Job. It’s a great resource for any job searcher, but it is especially helpful for new grads who have never been through the process before. This is our first book review, but it certainly won’t be the last. As we build the One Day, One Job Book Store, these reviews will be integrated into it.
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We’re taking a cue from Naomi Dunford’s post on IttyBiz called Let’s Play a Game – What’s Your Home Business? and adapting the idea to job search. By the way, here’s our response to Naomi’s post.
So.
Let’s play a game.
What kind of job are you looking for?
We always love to hear reader feedback, so we’re going to open this post up for our readers to leave comments. If you’re visiting One Day, One Job, then you’re probably looking for an entry-level job. Tell us what you’re looking for, so that we can better serve you with our daily posts and articles.
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You just hung up the phone. You’re sweating. Your mouth is dry. Your heart is racing. You just had your first ever phone interview. It was for an internship with a company that you’re really excited about. You don’t know what to do with your nervous energy, so you start surfing the web looking for information about the company and your interviewer. It’s like checking the answers immediately after an exam. You need affirmation that you didn’t completely blow it. You Google your interviewer’s name. You find his blog. You start reading. You see a link to his Twitter account. You click through. You see a reference to your just completed interview.
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You’re watching tv with your roommates. They all have laptops, but you’re that kid who thought it was a good idea to bring a desktop to college. They are instant messaging (each other about how you never do your dishes), Youtubing, Facebooking, and Googling, all while watching tv. They’re reading online episode guides to get caught up with the series that you’re watching. When a company has a great commercial with a web address, they’ll probably type it in. What’s on tv has become a driving force in online activity. This might sound like a marketer’s wet dream, but Google Trends shows just how much what is on tv drives online search.
With that said, we thought it would be fun to see how college students can get job search ideas from watching tv. Now, leaving a permanent impression of your butt on the couch cushion while you eat Cheesy Poofs is not a legitimate job search tactic. However, if you’re going to watch the boob tube anyways, you might as well make the most of it. Here are tips on how to find jobs while watching the tv.
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For most new job seekers, the candidate selection process is incredibly opaque. Although some companies offer feedback on interviews, this is usually a half-hearted collection of vague generalities. Comments such as “the applicant pool was very large,” don’t tell you anything, and positive feedback such as “you were very friendly,” tell you something that you knew already. To be quite frank, these comments simply sugarcoat the fact that you were not the candidate of choice. This doesn’t mean that you couldn’t do the job – chances are you wouldn’t have been interviewed if that was the case – but it does mean that you failed to demonstrate to your interviewers why you were the best option.
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Today I wanted to contact one of my old professors. My alma mater doesn’t provide alumni e-mail access, although they are considerate enough to forward our old e-mail addresses to a new account. That’s nice, but it’s not enough. If Google can offer Gmail for free, why can’t a University that just got $100k+ from me let me keep my .edu e-mail address in perpetuity? I mean, it’s not that I really want to receive e-mails at that address (which I basically can with forwarding), but that I want to be able to send from the .edu address because of its ability to dodge spam filters. I don’t spam people, but sometimes e-mail servers or mail clients might think my e-mail looks like spam.
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This post was written by Rob Dusel. He is a graduate of Cornell University (B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations) and the University of Cambridge (MPhil in Land Economy). Rob currently works for an international real estate investment fund and will be an occasional contributor to One Day, One Job.
So far at One Day, One Job, Willy has provided some great advice about how to use the Internet in your job search, but sometimes the perfect job just isn’t to be found online. In fact, for a huge number of new college graduates, this turns out to be the case. One Day, One Job showcases some of the best and most interesting entry-level jobs that can be found on the web today, but quite often the cutting edge, niche firms that job seekers dream about simply don’t have the time or staff to monitor an online job posting. Without a dedicated employee to sift through resumes and answer questions, companies often end up hiring on a “we need someone today” basis. Unless you put yourself out there by cold calling, you simply won’t have a chance at getting hired in one of these situations.
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A reader e-mailed us a few weeks ago – she’s a senior at Columbia University, and she’s job searching. She’s had the usual frustrations with finding helpful information on companies’ career sites; however, her situations is exacerbated by the fact that she is an international student. Many students from abroad are treated like second class citizens (does that make sense, since they’re not US citizens?) in the job recruitment process solely because of their need for sponsorship to obtain a visa (did we get the terminology right?).
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Despite the fact that many college kids say that they live in a bubble, they still deal with an information overload on a daily basis. Today you might read 7 Facebook messages, 23 e-mails, 142 IMs, 14 text messages, 97 pages of assigned reading, 3 course announcements, 12 web pages, 8 blog posts, and 6 articles in your campus daily. Shoot, you might do that before noon. It’s easy to deal with the information when it’s delivered to you. E-mail makes your computer ding. Facebook sends you e-mails. You have a ringtone for text messages. IMs make an icon on your screen bounce. Your campus daily is delivered in front of your favorite coffee shop every morning. It’s when you have to seek out information that it becomes far more difficult to manage.
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Have you read our article How to Use Google to Find a Job? If not, you should give it a look. For those who have already read it, you’ll be interested to know that we just updated the article with some new information. Google has added a date modifier that you can tack on to the end of your search URLs to limit your searches to results from a certain time period. So give it a look – it’s about half way down the page.
When we, at One Day One Job, scour the Internet for the best entry-level career opportunities for new college graduates, we use a variety of techniques to find fresh jobs to write about every day. We’ve already told you How to Use Google to Find a Job, now we are revealing our second secret to online job search.
Everybody loves lists (that’s why this article is in list format). Many magazines use annual lists to broaden their readership. People who wouldn’t normally read a magazine will grab an issue to see who made the list this year. Look at U.S. News and World Report – it’s far better known for its annual college rankings than its actual mission of delivering the news. These lists don’t provide the in-depth information that you find in most magazine articles, but they do provide a broad overview of a subject and a plethora of ideas for job seekers.
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Whether you’re a first-time job seeker or a seasoned veteran, searching for a job on the Internet can be a daunting task. At One Day, One Job we do our best to find truly great entry-level career opportunities and pass on information about them to you. Since we only write about one company’s jobs each day, there are thousands upon thousands of jobs that we pass over. Just because we don’t mention a company on One Day, One Job doesn’t mean that it isn’t worth your interest.
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The last 3 years Google Trends shows a huge spike in searches for the keyword “jobs” in late December. From the graph it looks like this jump comes after the holiday gift giving search traffic bottoms out. In fact, it looks like the increase in job search traffic starts on December 26th (this is just a guess concocted from comparing this graph to some graphs of holiday related search traffic) and peaks just a few days into January. So for about a week, there is an extremely sharp jump in search traffic for jobs, then it levels off throughout the year. There also appears to be a significant, but relatively steady drop in job search traffic during the Fall, before the sharp upward spike happens again just after Christmas. Can anybody explain this?
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I'm Willy Franzen. I graduated from Cornell University in 2006 and quickly realized how frustrating the job search can be for new grads. That's why I started One Day, One Job - the insider’s guide to unique and exciting entry level job and career opportunities for recent college graduates. Every day we profile a new employer and highlight their entry level jobs.
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