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Kickstarter jobs7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() The system is a problem, but the system is resistant to change so it’s futile to try to change it as a small group or individual. When university grad employment rates go up, the university gets ranked higher in Businessweek rankings, etc. When company quotas get filled, graduate employment rates for the university in question go up. When grads follow the rules, company hiring quotas get filled. The system as it exists teaches college grads to follow the rules. The system appears to work well for college grads, but what it does instead is something quite different. To change the system would be to upset the balance that works so well for career centers, recruiters, and college grads. If you try to change any of the above, people will fight tooth and nail to resist you.This leads to Fortune 500s and major firms having a major advantage over small and medium sized companies in college recruiting. Because of their lack of resources, they can generally only spend time partnering with companies who will hire large numbers of grads at a time. They sell spots at career fairs and on job boards to companies. University career centers are profit centers for universities.(Their performance metrics and bonuses are based on that, after all.) ![]() Recruiters have quotas to hit for hiring, and they’re occasionally willing to stretch the truth to make those quotas happen. Recruiters love that we’re ushered down certain paths because it makes their job easier.Accounting majors go to accounting firms. We’re taught to follow an existing path based on our college major.What I found was not surprising, but it was disappointing: Seeing so many people experience the same thing made me wonder: what’s the problem? Why is this happening? They left school excited to enter the “real world,” got past the honeymoon period at work, and then realized how little they had learned about the business world, jobs, and what it means to show up to work everyday. The more I told the story of my first year of work, the more peers I found who experienced the same thing. What I found on the job was distinctly different from that which I was pitched during recruiting season. Nine months later I turned in my letter of resignation and prepared to leave my highly coveted consulting job. I was ready to learn and excited to be there. The recruiters pitched me on the travel, breadth of industry experience, and valuable skillset I would build. Spots in the performance improvement practice at Ernst & Young were highly coveted amongst my peers and I thought I hit the jackpot as jobs go. I had just completed my 4.5 year college career and a lengthy career search, resulting in offers from multiple professional services firms and Fortune 500 companies. Since its inception, Kickstarter has been named one of the Best Inventions of 2010 by Time magazine and “the people’s NEA” by The New York Times.In January 2011, I walked into the Atlanta Ernst & Young office wide-eyed and bushy tailed. Over 21 million people across the globe have helped fund Kickstarter projects. The organization’s goal is to make it easy for creators to have full control of their work without having to contend with long grant applications, last-minute edits from investors, or other onerous obstacles. Kickstarter’s clients range from well-known organizations like the Smithsonian Institution and TLC to small-scale clients working toward providing meditation vinyl records. Kickstarter’s mission is to “help bring creative projects to life.” The company prides itself on being a place where creators share their ideas and visions with communities that fund them. Kickstarter donates 5% of its annual profit after taxes to organizations that promote arts education and fight systemic racism, and all full-time employees can nominate organizations and join the committee that ultimately determines where the company’s money goes. All full-time team members can work 100% remotely and live anywhere the company is registered as an employer. Eligible roles may receive benefits, including health insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, and education and wellness stipends. As an employer, Kickstarter has offered full-time, part-time, and 100% remote work opportunities in the past. Founded in 2009, Kickstarter has since received over $6 billion in pledges to fund over 200,000 creative projects in the areas of technology, dance, music, film, journalism, video games, and more. Kickstarter is a Brooklyn, New York-based crowdfunding platform that seeks to revolutionize how creative projects are supported around the world. Researched & Written by Alexis Reale on the FlexJobs Team ![]()
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