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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I am quite excited about this campaign. I wish this was around when I graduated. It would have been lovely to receive some help on my job search. Good luck to all the grads!
This sounds like a really great program. My other half is graduating from law school this November and I know he needs some direction in where to look for a job in a solicitors office. Anything that helps people get into work is great in my books.
Great tips! I’ll have my own, plus several grads in a few years and will keep these tips in mind. And we just had our first Fifth Third Bank open in our area… had never heard of them before.
Wonderful tips for grads. Thankfully the job market is getting a lot better than it has been, so hopefully more grads will be able to get into positions in which they can find happiness and meaning!
This sounds like a great program! It’s hard nowadays to find a decent job and I really feel for young kids who are just getting into the workplace now!
This is a great thing right here, I remember when I first graduated college I had no idea where to go from there. Thankfully I fell into blogging which has been my main job for over 5 years now.
These tip are so helpful. I’m graduating in two years and this is the one thing I am very nervous about. It’s so crazy how difficult it is to get a job when your finish college.
I wish I had read this post when I was looking for job, saved me so much trouble and anxiety. Great tips for recent pass outs and it really is tough and competitive world out there.
I graduated in December instead of May/June, for both my first and second bachelor’s, so this is good advice at the end of the year too. I had the added advantage of using the holiday break to get ready for jobs, and would have appreciate this great info.
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Great advice, I’m sure many are going to find this post so helpful. It takes me back to when I graduated. I needed some direction.