The Daily Job Hunt

TK Coleman is the Director of Entrepreneurial Education at the Foundation for Economic Education, the Co-Founder of Praxis, and Host of the Revolution of One podcast.  In this episode Isaac and TK dive into TK’s career journey, how he lets curiosity lead him to new opportunities, how to make difficult career decision, and much more.   In this episode:  * How TK career journey hasn’t...

Want to get hired? Send a pitch, not a resume.  Can you imagine trying to get a date, by sending out a resume? Trying to get a job with one is no better. Find out why in this audio essay from Isaac Morehouse.  Read the article at: https://crash.co/career-guides/pitches In this episode:  * What is a pitch?  * Your ability to create value and prove it are the only things that mat...

Tim Toterhi is a career coach and author of several books including The HR Guide to Getting and Crushing Your Dream Job and The Introvert's Guide to Job Hunting. After 20 years of working in project management Tim honed in on his skills with writing and teaching to create a niche helping others grow their careers.  In this episode:  * How a sales job helped Tim start a business as a care...

Lauren Keys is the co-creator of Trip of a Lifestyle. A blog that helps you find your own path to financial independence and adventure.  In this episode Isaac and Lauren talk about how Lauren used cold-outreach to start her career, how her and her husband avoided lifestyle inflation to reach financial independence, and her work at Trip of a Lifestyle.  In this episode:  * How Lauren...

By the time Vincent Zurzolo reached high school, he was already buying and selling comic books. From that point of selling to friends his his business consistently grew. With lots of twists and turns in between Vincent has stayed true to his love of comic books, co-founding Metropolis Comics and Comic Connect, two of the premier sites for buying and selling comic books.  Isaac and Vincent div...

Jeff Sandefer started his first business at age sixteen. After earning an MBA, he founded Sandefer Offshore, an oil and gas company that generated over $500 million in profits in less than five years. He then ran Sandefer Capital Partners, a multi-billion dollar energy firm. Over the last fifteen years, Sandefer has worked with entrepreneur-teachers to build a nationally acclaimed entrepreneurship...

Career growth happens with small, consistent, compounding gains punctuated by big leaps.  Sometimes you are in a career phase where sticking to the daily work is going to take you to the next level. But sometimes, when we look inside ourselves, we realize it is time to make a big leap.  In this episode of Career Crashers, Isaac talks about making big leaps in your career and the resource...

Amanda Kingsmith is a yoga teacher, a yoga business coach, and a world traveler. She hosts two podcasts and has creatively built a career that allows her to work while traveling most of the years.  Isaac and Amanda talk about Amanda's career journey from a more conventional career to where she is now and how taking small steps has helped her create a career she loves.  In this episode:&n...

This week we have a special episode of Career Crashers as Isaac sits down with his wife Heather to talk about her career story and the decision to focus on family as a career choice. In this episode:  * Heather’s experience with college, thinking about majors, and deciding to leave after 3 years * When did Heather decide she wanted to focus on family full-tme * Voluntary division of labor wit...

Ryan Ferguson is the co-host of The World Wanderers Podcast and a freelance podcast producer. In this episode Isaac and Ryan talk about Ryan’s journey from a very conventional education and career path to an unconventional career.  In this episode:  * Ryan’s experience following a traditional education and career path before veering off the script * Moving on from jobs you don’t like * W...

If you love something, you don’t need any reasons for doing it. If you hate something, you’d better have good reasons for doing it. It’s all about burden of proof and Isaac explains why in this weeks audio essay.  Read the article at https://crash.co/content/the-job-hunt/when-to-stick-with-something-and-when-to-quit For more resources on creating a great career Check out Crash.co and download...

Joel Bein is a classically trained musician and conductor and the founder of the New Orleans Chamber of Player. Over the past ten years he has built a very promising and successful career as a music educator. But along the way he identified the pull to do something more. There was something about entrepreneurship that drew him in, and so, he decided to make a change.  After that decision Joel...

In this weeks audio essay, Isaac explores why it is crucial to overcome autopilot on the job hunt.  Our ability to do certain things on autopilot is great. It frees up time and allows us to focus on more valuable things. But we if let everything about our life go on autopilot, we won’t like where we end up. We need to embrace autopilot when it is helpful, but truly focus our efforts on the mo...

Anthony Holloway is the Talent Acquisition Lead at Woebot.  In this episode, Anthony shares more about his career journey and how he set himself apart early in his career, while also diving how he identifies and interviews candidates at Woebot.  Anthony has a great perspective on what it takes to find and win great opportunities because he has experience on both sides of the table. Not o...

This week on Career Crashers, Isaac is joined by Josh Rollins the co-founder of Vicinity Capital. After digging through a pile of soulless and unimpressive applications Josh turned to Crash to look for candidates and ended up finding and hiring a Crash candidate for a role at Vicinity.  In the episode, Josh walks through the hiring process from the point of view of someone doing the hiring so...

What is the most important trait hiring managers look for when hiring? How can you come up with a valuable project to pitch a company with? Find out on this week's question and answer edition of Career Crashers. In this episode: What is the most important trait that hiring managers look for? Why the ability to learn is one of the most important skills If a company is not hiring, what is the most e...

This week on Career Crashers is Praxis CEO Cameron Sorsby. Cameron was one of the first customers to sign up for Praxis when the program launched and worked his way up through a variety of roles before taking over as CEO.  In this episode, Isaac and Cameron breakdown how Cameron crashed his career and how having a team-first perspective ends up being best for you as an individual.  In th...

To be interesting, be interested. It's common advice for making connections and it applies when it comes to finding job opportunities. If you want companies to be excited about you, you should show why you're excited about what they do.  In this audio essay, Isaac shares a story of how a pitch showing excitement led to a new job opportunity on the Crash team.  To read the article go to:...

This week we are excited to welcome Connor Maloney to the show for a unique episode. Connor just finished a job hunt of his own, and despite not being as qualified on paper, he had a lot of success getting interviews.  In the episode, Connor breaks down how he created his own opportunities and found a great job.    In this episode:   - Running into and working around challenges...

If someone looked through your online presence and saw your social posts, your LinkedIn, or your blog, what would they learn about you? Would they know what you're an expert in? Would they know what your interests are? Too often, we hide things we are interested in and only share pet photos, memes, or nothing at all. If you start sharing your thoughts, writing about what interests you and learning...

This week on Career Crashers we are joined by Pedro Mattos. Pedro is the head of business development and speaking at Self Publishing School and has an incredible story of winning his first opportunity.  In this episode, Isaac and Pedro breakdown how by going deep Pedro won a great opportunity before it even existed.  In this episode:  * How Pedro crashed his career from his start a...

Tech startups aren't just for techies. They are all kinds of opportunities for non-tech people. Someone has to do operations, marketing, sales, customer service, HR, and on and on. There are all kinds of opportunities for all kinds of people to work in some of the most dynamic new companies in the country. For more resources on creating a great career Check out Crash.co and download our book, Cras...

Levi Morehouse is the founder and CEO of Ceterus, a high-growth FinTech startup based in Charleston, SC. Levi started out his career as an accountant and was building a stable career in accounting when he decided to quit and take a different direction which led him to entrepreneurship.  In this episode, Levi shares his career crash story.  Discussed in this episode:  -Why Levi left...

While there is a lot of concerning stuff happening that is outside of our control, there is still a lot of opportunity that exists within your control. You can still bring your focus back to the things in your life that you have the power to change. You can use the time you have to focus on the actions you can do to move forward towards your goals. In this quick update, Isaac shares a few quick th...

Looking for a job is hard enough without being rejected by a robot, but as applicant screening software becomes more and more popular your regular job applications will continue to be bluntly discarded before any human lays eyes on it.   Even though these systems are flawed, employers keep using them because applicants send the same generic resumes and not differentiating themselves.  &n...