00:00 Speaker A
So you have achieved from new grads, three tips to help them land that job. How can they stand out?
00:06 Speaker B
Oh, absolutely. First of all, work smarter, not harder. Use AI in your search. Um, if you’re on LinkedIn right now, you can literally type into LinkedIn search and say, I’d like to use my marketing skills in the healthcare industry. It’ll pop up a list of jobs that are there for you. It’ll even show you how your skills match up against that job so that you can bypass the ones that you don’t qualify for, go straight to the ones you do qualify for, and you save time. It is not a volume play. And I think the other thing is get really comfortable with AI. All of the recruiters are asking how are you using AI in your personal life, how are you using it in your work life, and it doesn’t just include engineers. These are all types of jobs. People want you to have AI proficiency. And then finally, adaptability has got to be your superpower. So many of the people who got jobs last year said that they got jobs because they switched industries. So don’t be necessarily married to an industry. You and I just had a conversation, you said you moved cities before you came to Manhattan, right? Because you went where the opportunity is. I think that’s really important. People have to sort of reimagine what that first job is. Your first job out will likely not be your dream job. But I will say is that, um, sometimes that that that opportunity is really off the beaten path. You might if you’re in marketing, you might not be, you know, marketing for the concert for Taylor Swift or Beyonce at first, you might be like my first marketing job, first two years was selling check processing software to banks. And I did a great job of that. I got a ton of experience, a ton of skills, and it led me to the next job and the next job. And so I would say to to new grads is that there are opportunities out there. You got to be flexible, and you got to be open to the adventure.