How smart grads are landing jobs quickly + hot industry news 📈🎓

New Grad Tips for 2025 🎓

LinkedIn recently released their New Grad Guide where they cover fastest growing job titles, industries and cities for new graduates.

While hiring is slower overall, these industries and job titles give you a better shot at landing a job. Let’s dive into the data.

Fastest growing job titles 💼

These roles are seeing major growth and are more likely to have entry points for fresh grads, increasing your odds of landing a job:

1. Artificial Intelligence Engineer

2. Law Clerk

3. Datacenter Technician

4. System Engineer

5. Financial planning and analysis specialist

Industries that are on the rise 📈

Not always the flashiest, but these industries are hiring and are often overlooked:

1. Construction

2. Utilities

3. Oil, Gas and Mining

4. Financial Services

5. Wholesale

Best cities for new grads (US) 🌄

Smaller cities = lower cost of living + growing opportunities. Worth a second look.

1. Tucson, Arizona

2. Savannah, Georgia

3. Tallahassee, Florida

4. Chattanooga, Tennessee

5. Dallas, texas

Future proof your PM career from AI 🧠 

Worried about AI writing PRDs or auto-generating MVPs?

You’re not alone.

But PMs who embrace AI as a tool and not a threat will stay ahead. This blog breaks down 5 practical ways product managers can use AI to boost and not replace their work.

👉 Check out the blog here

Want to work on the world’s most pressing problems? 🌍

If you’re looking for more than “just a job,” check out 80,000 Hours’ list of the world’s most pressing problems from AI risk to climate change.

Their research helps you find meaningful, high-impact career paths that go beyond buzzwords.

Who knows you might help solve a problem that affects the entire planet.

💡 How This Engineer Landed Offers from Google, Meta & Amazon

Maulik Suchak used his experience building a resume platform to land interviews at top tech companies and eventually a role at a Magnificent 7 firm.

He shares:

• Proven resume tips

• How to tell a compelling story

• What actually gets recruiters’ attention

👉 Read his story

⚡ Tech Scoop: OpenAI Agrees to Buy Windsurf for $3B + free cursor pro for one year!

OpenAI has reportedly finalized its deal to buy Windsurf the AI code editor for $3Bn. OpenAI’s entry is bound to heat up the competitive AI IDE market. Windsurf was last valued at $1.25Bn following a $150 million funding round.

Also maybe unrelated - Cursor just announced a year free for all students. Grab it here.

Job Search Resources📝:

• themomproject — designed for working parents

• theidealist — non-profit & social-impact driven work

• ilovecreatives — niche platform for creative professionals

• Built In Job Board

• Welcome to the Jungle Job Board

• hiring.cafe 

• Use Google to find postings quickly

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