Name: Standing out to hiring managers without on the job experience | Gradspring Podcast by Gradspring
Duration: 5 min 24 s
Description: We sat down with Dan Ryan and talked about entry level jobs. Dan's experience in career placement helps us understand what entry level job candidates can do to stand out when they lack experience in their desired field.

Hundreds of college students in Middle Tennessee received diplomas over the weekend in mid-year graduation ceremonies. They walked across stages into an improving, but tough job market, where college grads still have a hard time finding good work. A Nashville-based web company says the jobs are there, just hard to find.
Gradspring is a new job posting site like Monster or Career Builder, but it only lists jobs that need a bachelor’s degree and little-to-no experience.

Founder Sean Clem says he’s adding as many as 200 positions a day. He believes the trouble for college grads is that appropriate jobs are often mixed with ads for scams or positions requiring much more experience.

There’s another factor at work. College students may value their degree more than the job market does. Clem says there’s about a $10,000 difference.

“I think recent grads, the expectation is somewhere in the $45,000 to $50,000 range. The reality is more in the $35,000 to $40,000. After a few offers, reality sets in.”

Clem says users are getting jobs through Gradspring. The highest subscription level of $125 comes with a job guarantee. Clem says of his thousand paying customers, he’s given four refunds so far.

Gradspring Founder Finds Jobs Aplenty for College Grads

We sat down with Dan Ryan and talked about entry level jobs. Dan's experience in career placement helps us understand what entry level job candidates can do to stand out when they lack experience in their desired field. 

Standing out to hiring managers without on the job experience | Gradspring Podcast

Gradspring is a career resource for college seniors and recent graduates, and we feature only entry-level professional opportunities.

•Gradspring is a job board. We feature only entry-level positions for recent and soon-to-be college graduates.
•Gradspring is a free employment resource to Human Resources Professionals. We provide a marketplace full of appropriate candidates for entry-level positions.
•Gradspring is an educational resource for job seekers. Gradspring is content-rich, featuring advice, tutorials, resume services, and a blog.

Gradspring provides subscribers with a filtered, quality technology platform that allows recent graduates to save time and money while making the transition from university student to working professional. Our goal is not simply to find you a job -- we want to help make you a better candidate, so that you can exceed even your own expectations.

Standing out to hiring managers without on the job experience | Gradspring Podcast

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