The Daily Job Hunt

This week on Career Crashers, Jérémy speaks to Eugene Fernandes about pitching and winning a role as growth manager at Podscribe !  We talk about Eugene's job hunt and break down everything from how he found companies to how he landed a great opportunity with Podscribe. Eugene also shares his advice for others setting out on a job hunt based on everything he's learned on his journey. Con...

Today on Career Crashers, we continue our series on up-and-coming tech companies you’ve never heard of, and what it’s like to work there, learning about Benepass !  Benepass is a benefits platform designed for modern companies. They help companies unify their ancillary benefits into an intuitive experience for their employees. You'll meet CEO and co-founder Jaclyn Chen and director of busines...

This week on Career Crashers, Joel is joined by Lolita Allgyer to talk about her experience growing up with self-directed learning and how she has applied it to her career. Lolita is currently a copywriter at Traffic Craft and former content strategist at Praxis , a role she started before she even turned 18.  Lolita was home educated so taking charge of her own learning has always been impor...

This week on Career Crashers, Joel is joined by Silas Mahner to talk about creating projects as career signals and using Crash to pitch companies.  Silas is an associate consultant for NextWave Partners , where he is helping to develop its global energy and infrastructure growth initiative. Prior to landing this job, Silas used Crash to land interviews for a number of different opportunities....

Today on Career Crashers, we're continuing our series on the hottest up-and-coming tech companies you’ve never heard of, and what it’s like to work there, with a deep dive into Firstbase .  Firstbase believes the majority of companies will be remote in the next 10 years. They are working to help a generation of companies go officeless, by allowing companies to supply, finance and manage all t...

This week on Career Crashers, Joel is joined by Jerrod Harlan to learn how he crashed his career in copywriting! Jerrod was a participant in the Praxis professional bootcamp, and decided he wanted to pursue a career as a copywriter. With his own initiative, support from mentors, and personal projects he has been able to quickly develop a thriving career.  Learn more about Jerrod and connect w...

In a world full of so many different companies on so many different job boards, how can you narrow down to the ones that will provide you with the best opportunity for growth? That’s what we’re talking about today with Henry Johnson, the creator of Rocketshipjobs.com.  You'll learn about what makes a company a rocketship company, how to find them for yourself, and how to find and win great op...

In this special episode, Joel & Jeremy dive into the just-launched Crash Course: Job Hunting 101 , which covers: Why knowing what you hate is more important than knowing exactly what job you want to do at the start of your career What a “signal” is and how it relates to education and the job hunt How to find job opportunities before they hit job boards Resumés aren’t doing the job and why send...

It is easy to get discouraged when looking at the list of requirements on a job posting. Previous experience, marketing skills, tech skills, sales skills, nunchuck skills, the list goes on and on. How do you press forward and convince a company that you are the right fit for a job, even if you don’t have all the skills and experience they’ve listed? Joel has the answer in this week's episode about...

This week on Career Crashers Joel is joined by Emily Cozzens, partner success manager at PandaDoc ! Many people believe a job at a high-growth startup is out of reach unless you’re a superstar programmer or experienced marketer. The reality is that some great projects and initiative will go along way to getting your foot in the door. In this episode, Emily shares how she used her early career expe...

Today on Career Crashers, we're excited to launch the first episode in a new series diving into the hottest up-and-coming tech companies you’ve never heard of, and what it’s like to work there. To start, we’re exploring AirGarage , a company that is reimagining the way we use parking space in our cities. Meet co-founder and CEO Jonathon Barkl and software engineer Priya Ghose . Learn about their c...

Sean Thielen-Esparza is Associate Product Manager at Hyperscience a company that uses machine learning to automate and modernize processes and operations for large scale companies and organizations. Sean has a fascinating story of crashing his career by leaving behind a promising opportunity in healthcare to pursue opportunities in tech on the other side of the country in NYC. In this episode: Sea...

For most of us, there are things in life we approach with professionalism, and other things we approach a lot less seriously.  We approach our jobs as professionals, but then our dreams can fall by the wayside. We put them off to another day, another month, or next year.  When we continue to not show up for our dreams, it is no surprise that we never make progress towards them. The only...

Jibril Jackson is the founder of Hyve a platform rebuilding the social media experience.  After excelling throughout school and university, and graduating from law school, Jibril  started and was excelling in a career as an investment banker. But he realized that the path he was succeeding on, was not a path that led to a great destination.  So he changed direction. He left his comf...

James Kawas is Co-Founder and CEO of The Selling Company, where he is working to change the way people sell their things. From a young age, James has thought outside the box about the way he works and creates. When he was 17, after already starting his first company, James wanted to meet Brian Chesky, so he created a side project idea for Airbnb, found emails for key employees at the company, and...

John Britton is the founder of Raise.dev where he helps developers build the skills and experience they need to get hired and level up in their careers. In this episode, John’s shares his own career story, from how he dropped out of college to get started working in software development, to how he got hired with GitHub, and why he started Raise.dev. John was able to create a great career and find...

As a young immigrant from Guadalajara, Mexico, Carlos grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and developed a passion for promoting meaningful conversations on philosophy and public policy. In this episode Isaac and Carlos talk about how that passion led him to dropping out of college and eventually to founding Arizona Talks. In this episode: Carlos’s experience in college and why he decided to drop out Worki...

Gerritt Maatkamp is a front-end web developer who started from scratch and taught himself the tech skills he needed to change careers.  Gerritt shares his career story, from dropping out of university to learning programming while working as a janitor and how anyone can follow a similar path.  In this episode:  * How seeing his brother work from home opened Gerritt’s mind to the ide...

At a young age Mikkel Thorup learned that school was not for him. In grade 7 and 8 he hated school, started cutting class, and by the time he was 15 he had completely dropped out and starting working odd jobs. From working and saving at a young age, Mikkel invested his time in traveling and adventures around the world where he has build a career that allowed him to continuing living an adventurous...

Brian Folmer is Founder and CEO of FirstLook, a subscription box designed to cut the friction and red-tape between consumer brand founders and early-stage investors. In this episode Brian shares his career story, from getting started working for a startup accelerator to moving to a corporate track, before eventually starting his company FirstLook.  In this episode:  * How Brian got start...

Vince Martellacci is the head freelancer at Forge Collective, an innovative marketing agency made up of freelancers focused on music and film marketing campaigns.  Vince has consistently used projects to learn new skills and create new opportunities for himself. In this episode, Vince shares his career journey and how sharing his work and learning out loud has led to unexpected opportunities....

Vince Thompson is Founder and CEO of MELT, the premier agency for activating sports and entertainment properties in ways that drive fans to respond. They’ve worked with companies like Coca-Cola, Holiday Inn, and Wing Stop at all sorts of the biggest sporting events.  In this episode Vince shares the lessons he learned building a career in the world of sports marketing and founding MELT. ...

Daniel Richardson is an SEO Specialist at Homes for Students (https://wearehomesforstudents.com/). After originally going to college to get a journalism degree, Daniel realized that working in that field wasn’t how he wanted to build a career. He did have a friend working in Digital Marketing and thought it might be the type of job he liked, but he had no experience or clear entry points into a jo...

David Kirby is co-founder of Acton Academy of Washington, DC. Before becoming an education entrepreneur, David had built a very successful career working in a non-profit in DC. But while his career was celebrated as successful he felt like there was something missing and it eventually led him to make the entrepreneurial plunge.  In this episode Isaac and David dive into David's journey throug...

Lauren Hasson is the founder of DevelopHer a platform that teaches women to build value and earn more money in tech. She also works remotely for a Silicon Valley payments company.  Lauren had a degree in computer science, but had bad experiences early in her career and decide she didn’t want to work in tech, years latter with little technical skills she decided she wanted to make a change and...