Pay it forward: Help your graduating friends find their first big gig
LinkedIn is all about helping people be successful in their professional lives, and with that goal in mind we’re stepping up our efforts to help graduates launch their careers – starting today.
Over the next two weeks on our blog, we’ll have students and faculty (career services professionals, alumni department heads, etc.) from universities across the country share their advice on how grads and their parents can help launch new grads’ careers during this tough economy. We’ll also have experts, coaches, book authors and even journalists/media personalities talk on a range of topics such as the best ways to pay off your student debt, how to live on a budget without cutting out all of your fun and even the best ways for parents to productively talk to their new grads about getting jobs.
All this and more, right here on the LinkedIn blog.
If you’re a new grad or know someone who is, feel free to also join our LinkedIn ‘09 Grads Group and / or feel free to spread the word on Twitter.
Check out today’s tips for grads from our users here
Tags: LinkedIn 09 Grads Guide, LinkedIn Seek Week, linkedin-grads, linkedin-grads-guide, patrick-crane
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Zonker Harris April 20th, 2009
This thread about help for graduates strikes a chord with me, and maybe LinkedIn can help! I am working for a small company which has 6-month internship openings.
Unfortunately, 5 months ago, the local wells (the IT and CS departments of local colleges, and the local UNIX/Linux users groups) seems to have run dry, with only 3 applications submitted.
We’ve also posted on internship-in, but I’m trying to find other places to fish for intern candidates. Is there such a forum on LinkedIn? (Could there be?)
Where are the students and grads looking?
Good luck with your searches,
-Z-
jason zajonc April 20th, 2009
Awesome article! I really loved meeting young grads at my first job talk about earning degrees from one school or another and they were at best “social dorks” when it came to talking to people….communication is key in anything we do in life.
I remember like it was yesterday when Vinnie was always busting your hump back in the day and now look at your results years later…keep up the awesome work brother!
Sean April 20th, 2009
Be and engineer, the market is always in demand, they get paid well, nd we need more of them.
Abhishek shukla April 21st, 2009
noting happend in past it happens in present.
man think always ownself why? i think it is due to fear factor when man want to achive our goal then they think only ownself they don’t think about other people,when they will think about other people then there is no need of think ownself because they are doing our job,but in otherhand there is a huge difference between past& present,past always give us to modify ourself but present for act to do such thing it will come to our prententacy. we will have to chang our mentality towords mankind.
Sue April 21st, 2009
We have an opening for a Human Resource Generalist. We are willing to look at recent college grads as well as people with 2-3 yrs experience. I know it is tough in the job market but there are things out here. Send me a resume. Job is in Brighton, MI.
flojee April 21st, 2009
Hi Sue,
You should consider joining our LinkedIn ‘09 Grads Group, you can post jobs directly, and let recent grads know of any opportunities.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1839561
~Florina
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haitham May 18th, 2009
great article indeed!
finding talent is key nowadays and this helps big time. this will definitely attract and aid maintaining youth & fresh-grads.
Michael Ladd May 30th, 2009
Just want you people to keep up the good work. Networking is the best way to find a job.
Yes the economy stinks and only going to get worse. We cannot afford all the spending, earmarks and SS amd medicaid and medicare and people that lived beyond there means. No savings and mortgage crisis and business greed and corruption and no accountable for non of this.
American is heading for some dark days.
We need god and take our country back. We lost are morals values and god.
Yes there still some good people out there
Were spoiled country and one reason were in this mess.
All thses bailouts and bankruptcy being paid by taxpayers is wrong!!! America needs to wake and smell the coffee.
I have a degree in marketing and 45 years self employed.
kelly May 31st, 2009
I just found this site- it looks like this thread is over- I have three college grads (all May 17th) and everyone in the house are spending HOURS online- what a terrible time – so nonpersonal- to look for jobs. I will send the grads this link maybe they can follow if there are more posts. Pay-it-forward is an awesome idea.
Mario Sundar June 4th, 2009
Thanks for sharing, Kelly.
Feel free to also update your status – on LinkedIn and other sites like Twitter to further spread the message.
Mario from LinkedIn