The Daily Job Hunt

At age 17, Jackson opted out of the traditional education path and joined the Praxis Bootcamp! He learned the basics of value creation on the job and created a video editing business that allowed him to work and travel the U.S. and world. Now, he's based in Austin, and has started,  The Gift, a company that creates and runs celebratory experiences.  Throughout his career journey Jackson...

Last week on Career Crasher's we heard Hunter Casillas' story of winning an opportunity at GoodUnited with a unique pitch. This week we're hearing the other side of the story and talking with Nick Black, founder and CEO of GoodUnited , to find out what receiving that pitch was like from the business side. We also learn about Nick's backstory as an entrepreneur, his dedication to helping veterans,...

This week on Career Crashers Joel is joined by Hunter Casillas to talk about how his ability to backflip helped him land a job at GoodUnited.  Hunter is a junior product manager at GoodUnited and broke into his career without college through self-taught skills and a Praxis apprenticeship. In the episode, Hunter shares the backstory on his unique pitch that won him his job, how he's learned an...

This week on Career Crashers, Joel is diving into how to make Crash pitching easy and fun! When we think about the job hunt, we tend to think about hard and not fun work, but it doesn't have to be that way! Finding a company you like, telling them why you love what they're doing, and making something small that has value to them will blow away most companies. It will put you in the top 1% of job h...

If you’ve ever struggled with the checkout process while trying to buy something online, this company is for you.  Fast is a tech company founded in early 2019 with the mission of making buying online faster, safer and easier for everyone. In two short years they’ve raised over $120 million from investors and grown to over 100 people even through the pandemic. It all started when their CEO an...

This week on Career Crashers, Joel is joined by Brad Matthews to talk about creating great marketing projects. Brad is a growth marketer at Go Digital China and a Crash user. Brad shares his experience of successfully using Crash video pitches to find opportunities and breaks down how to come up with project ideas to use as part of a pitch. Learn more about Brad at: https://bradjamesmatthews.com/...

Back in 2019, three friends named Sid, Rudy, and Andy wanted to build a company to empower creators. They spent much of that year talking to every creator they knew about their challenges and needs, and uncovering patterns among them all. Online creators earn a living by monetizing their products, talents, and content. If you’ve read a blog post, watched videos on TikTok or YouTube, taken an onlin...

Andrew Flynn is a growth marketing advisor with a fascinating career crash story, going from pro skier to a thriving marketing career.  Isaac and Andrew breakdown Andrew's journey and the lessons he learned along the way, covering how Andrew got his start building websites to how he prioritizes learning now that he is running his own marketing company. Connect with Andrew: https://www.linkedi...

This week on Career Crashers Joel is breaking down one of the best tools for building your career, starting a podcast!    Most people imagine you have to be an expert in some field before you can start podcasting, but the reality is podcasting is one of the best ways imaginable to learn and break into a new career.    In this episode, Joel shares recommendations on why and how...

Sometimes you go for a job and never hear back. It sucks, but it happens, and a lot of the time it’s the norm. If you send a video directly to the hiring manager, it happens a lot less. But you still won’t get every job you pitch. So what happens when you don’t?  If you take the time to create a great pitch, you'll be getting a lot of benefit out of it, even if you don't get the job...

Over the past two decades, climate change has crept into center stage of the public spotlight for biggest problems to solve on planet earth.   Scientists have estimated that, at our current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, it will take less than seven years to increase the global average temperature by 1.5 degrees Celsius. So the question becomes: how can we reverse this process? I spok...

This week on Career Crashers, Joel is joined by Bryan Clayton to share what he looks for when he's hiring!    Bryan is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. &nb...

Today, we’re learning about Trainual: a software tool that companies use to organize their processes and policies into a single business playbook for the entire company. They call it “getting your business out of your brain,” something almost all business owners struggle with.  Cofounders Chris and Jonathan Ronzio started the company in Scottsdale Arizona in 2018, and have since raised 6...

Nick Rundlett is a sales consultant and founder of Mastermind.army a mentorship group for sales professionals. This week he joins Career Crashers to talk about his experience breaking into a career in sales and how sales skills can set you apart on the job hunt! Learn more about Nick's sales mastermind at mastermind.army and connect with Nick by email at Nick [at] rundlett.com

This week on Career Crashers, Joel is joined by Jonathan Williams to talk about Jonathan's experience on a job hunt before and after finding Crash. Jonathan is a newly hired customer success associate at ChartHop who used Crash tools and mindset to change his approach to job hunting and quickly found success.  Links mentioned: https://intercom.help/careercrash/en/articles/5189285-companies-fi...

As part of our ongoing series featuring exciting startups to work for, Jérémy sat down with the 3 founders of Toucan, a venture-backed tech startup building a unique solution to help millions of people get better at learning languages—and beyond. 🚀   In this episode, we discuss:   00:00 The Problem with Learning Languages  02:10 Toucan’s Solution & Taylor’s Story  04:50 To...

This week on Career Crashers Joel is joined by Crash operations manager Corne Van Straten!    As operations manager Corne is charged with coordinating outreach, marketing & sales efforts, customer success and more.   Corne shares his story of breaking out of the schooled mindset and discovering his potential for learning and growing in his career. He tells the story of how...

This week on Career Crashers, Joel is diving into how to use your experience working in food service and use it to win great opportunities in tech startups. He breaks down some of the key points from the previous episodes in this series with TK Coleman and Kasen Wysong , covering the way to capture and show your skill development and apply it to the job search. Finally, he details how to use Crash...

Right now is a hard time to work in the service industry. Across the country and around the world servers and others who work in restaurants, many permanently. If you've worked in service and are looking for new opportunities, it's easy to overlook just how valuable your experience can be in new lines of work. In this episode of Career Crashers, Isaac is joined by TK Coleman to talk about why work...

This time on Career Crashers, Joel is joined by Julia Wuench to talk about setting a course for your career! Julia is a recovering perfectionist, leadership and career coach, and founder of The Authenticity Guide .   Julia started her career working in finance in New York City, but after waking up day after day not wanting to go to work, she realized it was time for a change. In this episode,...

This week on Career Crashers Joel is joined by Ron Thurston to talk about why your retail work is an incredible place to start and build a career. Ron is Vice President of Stores at INTERMIX a division of Gap Inc. and has been retail leadership for 25+ years. He is also the author of Retail Pride: The Guide to Celebrating Your Accidental Career . For so many of us, retail and service jobs are our...

Today on Career Crashers, Jeremy is joined by Dan Fryman to talk about how he is crashing a career in permaculture.  Dan works full-time as an aerospace technician, but over the past year realized that he had a passion and curiosity for permaculture. So he set out to get hands-on experience, pitching local farms and finding a cool part-time opportunity.  In this episode, Dan shares more...

We're kicking off 2021 on Career Crashers by diving into a series focused on how working in service industry can help you learn the soft skills to thrive in a startup. We're starting off with Kasen Wysong, sharing his experience working at a cafe and how it helped him develop soft skills that still serve him in his marketing role at Vicinity Capital. Joel and Kasen also talk about how Kasen ran hi...

Joe Pas is a marketing associate at Marginal Revolution University (M.R.U.) and an alumnus of the Praxis Bootcamp. Joe has an incredibly varied set of work experiences and used that range to become adapbale and confident with new opportunities.  In this episode, Joe talks with Joel about his experiences and how they have helped him to succeed in his career in marketing. He also shares how he...

Today on Career Crashers, we're continuing our series profiling up-and-coming tech companies you’ve never heard of, and what it’s like to work there, with a deep dive into WorkOS .  WorkOS provides APIs to make cloud apps enterprise-ready. In simple terms, they are helping apps start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Meet CEO   Michael Grinich and software en...