We will post at least 2 new job listings later today; perhaps more. For now, I want to share a few thoughts about signing up students going forward.
Monday and Tuesday were awesome days for sign ups, surprisingly so. This means Dayaway will now shift almost all of its time to finding the jobs and internships. We can do that because we now look credible.
Our credibility is defined by the quantity, quality and diversity of our student job/internship seekers. When you click "search job seeker" you see approximately 50 students from excellent schools across the country, graduate and undergraduate candidates, STEM/business/econ majors, men and women and all with solid grades. There are another "low profile" students who have registered but not created a profile.
While it would be tempting to expand the list even more (and now it would not be hard), we equally want to feature each student and reward each for investing in Dayaway. And we don't want to oversell. The reality is that 2010 will be a very difficult job market, and clean energy will not be an exception. Experts predict that clean energy job growth will outpace general economic growth significantly over the next 5-10 years, but right now job flow will be slow.
So, thank you to those of you who are signed up (visibily and just following). As for NYU, Vandy and Nova, we will send out a reduced number of invitations later today, and then we are done looking for students. Naturally we will accept those who come to us and I expect they collectively will increase membership by 20-40% by end of semester. This leaves us with a proportionality between seekers and expected job/internship listings.
Sorry for the long post, but if Dayaway truly is to be built for and by students then our gameplan needs to be transparent. And this also means your ideas are critical. So speak up--please. We need your views.
Got or need a clean energy job/internship? Join or follow Dayaway.
michaelbrownell@dayawaycareers.com. Thanks. Mike b.
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