One Day - One Job
One Day, One Job is the insider's guide to unique and exciting entry level job and career opportunities for recent college graduates. Our daily employer profiles highlight the best entry level jobs and offer job search tips that will make your life easier.
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Since We Can’t Give You a Job…
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... |
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VisualCV Helps You Stand Out
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?” We’ve done a lot of answering of... |
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Happy Birthday to ODOJ!
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... |
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Making Job Search Social
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... |
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Job Action Day is Monday
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... |
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Someone Won an iPod Touch!
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. Overall, the number of entries in the contest was a bit disappointing. We had to... |
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How One Reader Landed Her Dream Job at DailyCandy
It was the e-mail that we’ve been waiting for since we first launched One Day, One Job on November 12, 2007. It came on August 18, 2008. Hey Willy, I just wanted to let you know I love your website, I think its great… I read your post of Aug. 11 about DailyCandy.com I have read their newsletter for the longest time but never thought of applying for a job there and anyways I did and I got offered the job! So, I just wanted to say thank you!! -Alexandra You might think that we would... |
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Tell a Friend About Us and Win an iPod Touch
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... |
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First Jobs: No Experience Needed?
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... |
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Use LinkedIn Ads to Make Employers Hunt You Down?
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:... |
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Use Facebook Ads to Make Employers Hunt You Down
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... |
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Do I Know Anyone at (Company Name)?
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,... |