Getting a job is tough. Did you know that on average, 200 people apply for every job opening? Yet just 2% of them will get an interview*. A shocking 50% of all job openings aren’t posted online**. After learning this, I wasn’t too surprised that more than half of recent graduates do not have full time jobs. This blog post is sponsored by Fifth Third Bank, and I am eager to share with you how they are helping new graduates find careers after college. I know that securing the first job after college is a big struggle for many people right now. If you or your child have recently graduated college, it’s important to do everything you can to be more prepared and proactive than other grads that you’re competing with for a position. If you’re relying on finding job positions online, you’re missing out on half of the opportunities out there.
*Robert Meier, President of Job Market Experts **NextJob.com
Fifth Third Bank understands that getting the degree is just the beginning, and that modern day graduates are having a tough time finding careers in their field. To help out, they have created a contest that will provide NextJob one-on-one job coaching to up to 1,000 recent graduates. The contest is being called the Brand Of You contest, and the total value of the coaching that will be handed out is $1 million! Up to 80 winners will be selected each week, and each of them will be matched with a personal job coach from NextJob, which will help them land a job. NextJob is a national employment assistance firm that can help you land a job 3x quicker than if you were to on your own**.
The coaching package includes interview prep and coaching, enhancement of LinkedIn and Twitter profiles, help finding unlisted jobs, personal resume editing, career and personality testing to find more opportunities, and flexible scheduling.
Every single person who enters the contest will get access to NextJob’s proprietary online training toolkit!
Ready to enter? Go to twitter and tweet using the hashtags #53enter and #BrandOfYou while sharing why YOU deserve one-on-one job coaching from NextJob. You can submit one entry per day for the normal entry periods (which take place each week through 7/20). There will also be a live event on July 8th, and you can enter once per live event.
To participate in a live event follow @FifthThird. On July 8th the live event will be resume based so you can send in your twitter resume to enter. For the live events be sure to use the hashtags #53enter and #BrandOfYou.
For more details on entering the Brand Of You job coaching contest visit the Brand Of You page on the Fifth Third Bank website, which has a link to official rules.
July 8 2015 from 12p EST to 4pm EST.
Be sure to spread the word to any new graduates that you know, and remember you can enter through 7/20/2015!
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Fifth Third Bank.
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There really seems to be a huge market for great teachers. My son-in-law is a nurse and had no trouble finding a great job. Certain professions are always needed.
What a great opportunity for those who need it. I know my teen son wants to go to college to become a prosecuting attorney. I have no money to help him. Things like these will come in handy in deciding his future.
This is THE perfect way to give back! Investing in young adults heading to school and into the work force tends to fall by the wayside, so I’m so glad to hear that Fifth Third Bank is doing this for them!
My son recently received his Masters and he started his first day of work today as a Vocational Rehab Counselor. He told me that every time he was called in for an interview during college, he always got the job. He also got the first job he interviewed for once he received his degree. Maybe he read your tips! They’re great!
This sounds like an awesome program. I was lucky to get a job shortly after graduating but I am glad this program is out there. Students work so hard in school just to struggle when they are done.
These are great tips. My step son just graduated from high school and will be off to college in the fall. I know it’s going to go by fast and then the job search will be on.
Great information and so important for those in this situation. I think internships as seniors can really do so much for helping set you up with a lead following graduation.
I think this is such a great idea! When I graduated from college, I knew exactly what jobs I needed to apply for and what my degree had equipted me to do. Now it’s not quite so easy.
This coaching package sounds awesome. It took me almost 6 months to find a job out of college and I know I could’ve really used some help. This is great!
This is great! I’m not sure I know any recent grads but I will for sure share this. It’s very helpful and I’m sure lots of people will find great use out of these tips!
So many great tips here. There is so much I wish I had known when I went back to turn my AA into a BA. I then took 6 weeks off after finishing my BA and went for my MBA. Not sure why other then I felt like I had to in order to get ahead since so many entry level jobs were skipping over people with AA and wanting BA. I’ve done my time with entry level in my field. 2 years later and I still don’t have my dream job in my field so I just keep freelancing and that works ok for me.
Great tips! My husband had some job coaching when he was done in college and it was really helpful! I think its a great idea, and grads can use any help they can get!
I’m always nervous for friends whose children have recently graduated. It is really tough out there, and being turned down time after time can wreak havoc on a young person’s self-esteem.
This coaching package will surely come in handy. It’s a tough world out there; competition is tough and fresh grads will need all the help and guidance they can get to make them equip for the next big thing in their lives.
I remember how hard it was to get a job after I got my associates degree. By the time I got that, then employers wanted a bachelor’s degree. I got that degree right around the time the housing market crash. When I was laid off, I figured getting another job would be easy. Not so much. It was very difficult because I had no experience.
My daughter graduated from college in December and was very fortunate to already have a job. She did an internship during college and they hired her on once she had her degree.
I need to share this post in my daughter’s circles. She has a few friends that just recently graduated. They would probably like to know how hard it is going to be and what they have to do in order to make it in this world!
This is very helpful for so many young adults. I will have to share with my moms group. These mothers are always looking for helpful information like this.
This is a geat service to giveaway! I don’t have any recent grads n my family but both of my parents experienced layoffs this past year and struggled for awhile to find a new job. Having those interviewing and resume writing skills are invaluable!
I think it’s so amazing that Fifth Third Bank is giving recent grads the opportunity to win job coaching and exposing them to more jobs! This is such a great campaign they’re doing <3
These job coaching can really help applicants especially fresh grads in looking for the right job. They would also be able to help you go through the process of looking for a job.
Great post, I was fortunate enough to get a graduate job before I even finish my final exam at university. I took the initiative to look months before i finished and also checking all revenues not just online.
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I think this is such a great idea. Sometimes, all anyone needs is a helping hand to get going.