How Recent Graduates Can Stand Out in Today's Jobs Market
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Here's your Money Briefing for Wednesday, October 13th. I'm J.R. Whalen for The Wall Street Journal. Our week-long series on the current jobs market continues. Today, how new college graduates can prepare for landing a job in a competitive virtual marketplace.
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Coming up, what recent graduates should know as they prepare to enter the workforce and how they can stand out among the competition. That's after the break.
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Yesterday, we spoke with Wall Street Journal workplace reporter Catherine Dill to discuss how job seekers can avoid being ghosted by potential employers. Today, another set of job challenges. Catherine returns to focus on new graduates entering the real world and looking to join the workforce. At this month's WSJ Job Summit, Catherine was joined by Lauren Berger, CEO and founder of Intern Queen, as well as Christine Cruz Vergara, Chief Executive Strategy Officer at Handshake, the online job search platform for college students. We have highlights from their conversation. Let's listen in, starting with Catherine.
So I want to jump right in. We're almost two years into this pandemic. Some in-person interview and interviewing and recruiting has returned.
What challenges do new college graduates face in today's jobs market?
But most job seekers now know that they need to be prepared to shine in both virtual and in-person settings. So how should job seekers, particularly those who might be interviewing for their first job or one of their first jobs, be thinking about those interviews? Christine, why don't you start us off?
Sure, absolutely. I think the first thing that job seekers need to keep in mind is that virtual is very much here to stay. So make sure that you are comfortable in a virtual setting, make sure that you have a good setup, make sure that you have good light, make sure you have good connection. Those are kind of the basics, the technical components to making sure that you feel really confident when you're actually in these interview conversations or when you're having connections or relationship conversations with folks that you might be meeting. The second thing that you want to do is make sure you actually have a virtual presence. So because everything has sort of flipped to virtual and right now I think folks are kind of settling in a hybrid mode, trying to figure out what is best for in-person and what is best for virtual.
You want to make sure that you're not missing out on one of those components. So having a strong virtual brand and presence, making sure that you have a profile that really speaks to who you are, what you contribute and what your strengths are is going to be super important to your overall narrative and how you show up with employers.
I love that. Lauren, what do you want to add to that about this narrative and what you're sharing with employers about yourself?
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0:00–2:27
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What challenges do new college graduates face in today's jobs market?
2:27–12:01
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How should recent grads prepare for virtual and hybrid job interviews?
12:01–16:06
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How can you build a strong virtual presence and online profile for employers?
16:06–16:34
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