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WORK TITLE: 50 Ways to Get a Job
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Lives and works in New York and Toronto.
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Born c. 1984.
EDUCATION:University of Western Ontario, B.A., 2006.
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CAREER
Writer, entrepreneur, and public speaker. DreamNow, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, founder; Catalog, Brooklyn, NY, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, CEO. Also director of talent at Juxtapose, New York, NY; sometimes runs the Sorted Library, New York, NY.
WRITINGS
Blogs for websites, including the INC magazine and Fast Company.
SIDELIGHTS
Dev Aujla is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Catalog, a strategic advisory and recruiting services company operating in the United States and Canada. The service works with companies that not only focus on making money but also want to do good. Clients have included BMW, Pepsi, GOOD/Corps, and Change.org. Aujla also founded and ran for ten years the charitable organization Dream Now, which focuses on helping young people develop community projects. DreamNow has raised million of dollars for sustainability and youth organizing projects. In addition, he serves as the director of talent at Juxtapose, a fund that builds next-generation companies. Aujla, who earned a degree in English literature, is also a public speaker and the coauthor of two books on finding jobs, making money, and doing good.
Making Good
Aujla is coauthor with Billy Parish of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World. The book, published in 2012 as the United States and the world recovered from the Great Recession of 2008, focuses on helping people find opportunities to not only make money but also to effect change. At one point, unemployment among recent college graduates in the United States was estimated to be as high as fifty-four percent, with the unemployment rate at 8.5 percent. Aujla and Parish present the case that young people do not have to resign themselves to getting jobs to merely pay the bills. Rather, they show how to find jobs that also enable them to do something good in the world.
“People don’t [hear] the stories of entrepreneurs [who] are making money and doing good or living in a way where they have enough,” Aujla noted in an interview for Entrepreneur Online, adding: “They [job seekers] can actually live a really good life and get all the things they want.” For their book, Aujla and Parish spent three years interviewing hundreds of millennials. From these interviews and other research, the authors developed advice for millennials on how to make money while doing good.
Aujla and Parish interviewed people in a wide range of fields to provide real-world advice on how to build thriving, meaningful careers. They also draw on their own experiences working in the field of community organizing. “The authors’ own successes provide sufficient credibility for older audiences to take them seriously,” wrote E.G. Ferris in Choice.
Aujla and Parish emphasize that it is important for a person to find and acknowledge their passion. The next step is track down the innovators in the appropriate industry who are developing smarter and more sustainable approaches. The final step is to find or create the type of job desired. The steps are detailed in the second half of the book and listed as reflect, adapt, connect, design, launch, and organize. The book includes exercises designed to help job seekers move forward in a modern economy. Making Good is an “incredibly timely, illuminating, and useful book,” wrote Demos website contributor Jared Duval. Jane Scott, writing in Library Journal, called the book “an uplifting primer filled with practical insights.”
50 Ways to Get a Job
Aujla is also coauthor with Karim Jandev Aujla of 50 Ways to Get a Job: Customize Your Quest to Find Work You Love, also published as 50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms. The book is an outgrowth of the 50 Ways to Get a Job website, which Aujla created to provide tangible steps for people to get a job that also allows them to do good. Overall, 50 Ways to Get a Job is based on information garnered from the more than 400,000 people who have used Aujla’s methods for job seekers, no matter what stage of their career they are in.
The authors begin by pointing out that in the twenty-first century looking for a job is not a straightforward process that rests primarily on job applications and résumés. Instead, they point out that it is necessary to be able to communicate your true potential to employers. To do that, they show readers how to discover their true, unique paths. This includes making lists of milestones, relationships, jobs, and various experiences and then developing a cohesive connection among them chronologically. In the process, the authors help readers learn how to ask the right questions. They also recommend that job seekers skip using job sites in favor of more important job hunting work.
The book includes a wide range of professionals providing anecdotes and advice. Also featured are exercises designed to help the reader avoid pitfalls. The job-seeking exercises include steps to identify career and work paths and how to successfully network, including engaging friends in the process. Specific exercises also focus on the process of applying for a job and going through the interview process. “Aujla has parlayed his experience into an excellent job hunter’s 101 for the young and ambitious,” wrote a Publishers Weekly contributor, noting that the book is also valuable to those who are unemployed. Arthur Meyers, writing in Booklist, called 50 Ways to Get a Job “as much a book on how to live as how to find work.”
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Booklist, April 1, 2018, Arthur Meyers, review of 50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms, p. 37.
Choice, November, 2012, E.G. Ferris, review of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World, p. 533.
Library Journal, February 15, 2012, Jane Scott, review of Making Good, p. 112.
Publishers Weekly, February 12, 2018, review of 50 Ways to Get a Job, p. 70.
ONLINE
Catalog Website, http://www.opencatalog.co/ (July 7, 2018).
Demos, http://www.demos.org/ (March 24, 2012 ), Jared Duval, “To Make Good or Make Bank? A Review of Billy Parish and Dev Aujla’s New Book.”
Dev Aujla Website, http://www.devaujla.com (July 7, 2018).
Entrepreneur Online, https://www.entrepreneur.com/ (December 16, 2012), Neil Parmar, “Change-Maker Dev Aujla on Doing Well and Doing Good.”
Fast Company, https://www.fastcompany.com/ (July 7, 2018), brief author profile.
50 Way to Get a Job Website, https://50waystogetajob.com/ (July 7, 2018).
Marie Claire Online, https://www.marieclaire.com/ (May 20, 2014), review of 50 Ways to Get a Job.
Omega, https://www.eomega.org/ (July 7, 2018), brief author profile.
Outspoken Agency Website, http://www.outspokenagency.com/ (July 7, 2018), “Best-Selling Author & Millennial Workforce Expert.”
School for Poetic Computation Website, http://sfpc.io/ (July 7, 2018), brief author profile.
Speakers Boutique, http://speakersboutique.com/ (July 7, 2018), author profile.
Speakers’ Spotlight, https://www.speakers.ca/ (September 26, 2013), “Spotlight On: Dev Aujla, Social Entrepreneur and Coauthor of Making Good.
Thrive Global, https://www.thriveglobal.com/ (July 7, 2018), brief author profile.
Verge, https://www.vergemagazine.com/ (February 28, 2012 ), Jessica Lockhart, review of Making Good.
Western University, Department of Alumni Relations & Development Website, http://www.alumni.westernu.ca/ (July 7, 2018), author profile.
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Dev Aujla is the CEO of Catalog, a recruiting firm that has provided talent and strategy to some of the world’s most innovative companies including BMW, GOOD Magazine, Change.org, and Planned Parenthood. His writing and work have been featured in dozens of media outlets including the New York Times, Glamour, MSNBC, CBC and The Globe and Mail.
Dev Aujla
CEO of Catalog, Co-Author of Making Good
Dev is the founder and Executive Director of DreamNow, a charitable
organization that produces ideas that do good for the world. As a
producer, DreamNow brings together people, raises money and plans for
the growth of ideas. The ideas which Dev has played a role in
producing reach over fifty thousand people annually and have
collectively raised over 3 million dollars.
Dev is currently working on a book which will build on DreamNow’s
successful research into how a new generation is finding ways to make
money and change the world. Apart from this research, DreamNow is best
known for launching Continuum, a social enterprise that provides
follow up for conferences and programs around the world.
Dev’s work has been featured in numerous media outlets including
Time Magazine, The Globe and Mail and MTV. Dev has been selected as
one of the world's top 100 Young Social Entrepreneurs by the
Global Knowledge Partnership, as one of the top 25 young Canadians
changing the world by the CBC and as the recipient of the
Queen’s Jubilee Medal for Community Service.
He currently sits as an advisor to the Laidlaw Foundation and is a
director of the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition. Dev holds an English Literature degree from the University of Western Ontario and currently splits his time between New York and
Toronto.
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devaujla.com
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BEST-SELLING AUTHOR & MILLENNIAL WORKFORCE EXPERT
Dev Aujla runs Catalog, an agency which provides strategic advisory and recruiting services to companies that make money and do good. For the last ten years, Dev has been at the center of a progressive new generation that is rebuilding, redesigning and rethinking the ways that we do good and make money.
He is the creator of 50waystogetajob.com, a website and April 2018 Amazon best-selling book by the same name, that is the result of a multi-year research project focused on the future of what it means to work and build a career today. His research has enabled him and his team to talk to thousands of job seekers, employers, career counselors and experts in the field, mapping the shift to non-linear, learning-based careers. Dev is also the Director of Talent at the early stage venture fund Juxtapose, which helps build and scale category defining technology companies.
He is the founder of DreamNow, a charitable organization which has helped young people organize and start community projects. Over the last ten years, DreamNow has reached over fifty thousand people and raised million of dollars for sustainability and youth organizing. Dev has worked with large corporations such as BMW and Pepsi and with upstarts like GOOD/Corps and Change.org helping them to do good, build partnerships and launch programs across the United States and Canada.
Dev speaks regularly and has blogged for outlets that include Inc magazine and Fast Company. His writing and work have been featured in dozens of media outlets that include the New York Times, Glamour, MSNBC, CBC and The Globe and Mail.
Dev holds an English Literature degree from the University of Western Ontario and currently lives and works in New York and Toronto. He is also the co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World.
Dev Aujla
Dev Aujla is the Founder of DreamNow, a charitable organization that works with young people to develop, fund and implement their social change projects. Dev works as a Director of Partnerships for Change.org and has worked for other leading companies that do good and pay well like GOOD Corps. His work and writing have been featured in numerous media outlets including the Globe and Mail, CBC Newsworld and the Huffington Post. Aujla divides his time between Toronto and New York.
Dev Aujla
Dev Aujla is a writer and the CEO of Catalog, an advisory firm that provides talent and high level strategy to companies that range from BMW to GOOD Magazine. Previously, Dev founded the non-profit design studio DreamNow based in Canada which he ran for 13 years. Dev is an avid book collector and is the co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World.
Dev Aujla, BA'6
Dev Aujla is currently the Director of Talent at Juxapose, a fund that builds next-generation companies and continues to manage Catalog — an agency he founded in 2012 that provides strategic advisory and recruiting services for companies ranging from BMW to Planned Parenthood in New York.
In 2003, he founded DreamNow, a charitable organization that works with young people to develop, fund, and implement their social change projects.
Dev has also worked for leading companies that do good and pay well like GOOD/Corps and Change.org. His work and writing have been featured in numerous media outlets, including the Globe and Mail, CBC Newsworld, and the Huffington Post. Aujla divides his time between Toronto and New York. Dev was the keynote speaker for Alumni Western's 2010 Last Lecture.
In February 2012, Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a changing World, co-authored by Dev Aujla and Bill Parish was published. With unemployment among new college grads estimated to be as high as 54%, and some 8.5% of people out of work in the US, so many young people are resigning themselves to jobs that simply pay the bills. Yet there is still a deep desire to do something good for our world.
Making Good is the What Color Is Your Parachute? for the Facebook generation.
For three years, Dev and Bill interviewed hundreds of millennials and distilled their experiences to give readers real advice on how to build thriving, meaningful careers while making money at the same time. They conducted the interviews across a wide range of fields to show that jobs can be found doing good in every profession.
The authors also draw heavily on their own experience working in the areas of green energy and community organizing to illustrate their points. Their prescription boils down to acknowledging your passion, figuring out who is rebuilding your industry to make it smarter and more sustainable, and finding or creating the job that you really want. Making money and doing good are no longer separate spheres. They are coming together. The solution to our jobs crisis is the same solution to our ecological and social crises -- creating jobs that do good.
Making Good provides numerous exercises, designed to help others devise a personal pathway out of the jobless wilderness. Parish and Aujla urge their peers to follow their dreams, with the added benefit of reducing unemployment and hopefully spurring wider societal progress. There isn’t one right way to get a job, of course, so the authors provide general rules, exercises and thought experiments to help individuals realize their true potential and value in the changing workforce.
From alternative energy to food to education, Making Good outlines how to find opportunities to affect change and make money. These opportunities are not just for entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies: Making Good shows how any person can achieve financial autonomy, capitalize on global changes to infrastructure, and learn from everyday success stories—providing the skills and insights this generation needs to succeed.
Dev is currently writing his second book, called 50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms, which is set to come out April 2018.
Dev Aujla
Author of 50 WAYS TO GET A JOB (TarcherPerigee, 2018)
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Dev Aujla is the CEO of Catalog, a recruiting and insight firm that has provided talent and high level strategy to some of the worlds most innovative companies including from BMW, GOOD Magazine, Change.org, and Planned Parenthood. He speaks regularly and blogs for outlets that include INC Magazine and Fast Company. His writing and work have been featured in dozens of media outlets including the New York Times, Glamour Magazine, MSNBC, CBC and The Globe and Mail.
Dev Aujla is the CEO of Catalog, a recruiting and insight firm that has provided talent and high-level strategy to some of the world's most innovative companies, from BMW to GOOD Magazine. He is author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World.
For ten years he ran DreamNow, a nonprofit design studio that builds products and programs that change the world. DreamNow has reached over 500k+ people and raised millions of dollars for the projects it has produced. Aujla has worked with large corporations such as Pepsi and with upstarts like Change.org, helping them to do good, build partnerships, and launch programs across the United States and Canada.
Aujla speaks regularly and blogs for INC Magazine and Fast Company. His writing and work have been featured in dozens of media outlets, including the New York Times, Glamour, MSNBC, CBC and The Globe and Mail.
eptember 26, 2013 by Speakers' Spotlight
Spotlight On: Dev Aujla, Social Entrepreneur and co-author of Making Good
Dev Aujla has helped hundreds of thousands of people build careers that can change the world. The founder of DreamNow, a charitable organization that produces ideas that do good for people and the planet, and the co-author (with Billy Parish) of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World, Aujla shows, step-by-step, how anyone can rethink, reimagine, and rebuild the world around us.
What inspired you to want to be a speaker?
I wanted to find a way to tell as many people as possible about the world that I am privileged to see everyday–a world where whole industries are being rebuilt in ways that do good, and that it is actually possible to make money and do good.
Any advice for aspiring speakers?
Tell a story, don’t share facts.
What do you like to leave audiences with?
I like to leave audiences with two things: the feeling that they have enough to start pursing a career of meaning, and some tangible exercises they can use that will help them gain the momentum they need to make the changes they want.
How do you prepare before a talk? Any special rituals? A good luck talisman?
I have had a small Disney figurine that has been a good luck charm of sorts since I was ten years old. It is still always fairly close by.
Is there a charitable cause that you feel passionate about? Why?
I am about to go on a two week trip to Cambodia to visit the work that Somaly Mam is doing there. They have a remarkable story and an amazing program that helps women get out of sex trafficking. The stories and the resilience that these women have is unbelievable.
Do you have an especially memorable event you can tell us about?
The time I spoke to an audience that was separated by a divider with men on one side and women on the other. I was positioned in the center and could see at what points the men in the audience reacted and the women remained normal and vice-versa. It was a unique speech. Half the audience loved it at any given point.
If you had to choose a new career, what would it be?
I would be the person with a clipboard, and headset coordinating a major awards show. I would be making snap decisions and delegating responsibility to the whole team working to make sure everything goes off flawlessly.
Dev Aujla
Speaking Topics
Business
Change
Diversity
Education
Employment
Generational Issues
Innovation
Inspiration
Leadership
Social Media
Youth
Audience
Campus
Corporate
Educational
Employment
Government
Non-Profit
Small Business
Youth
Dev Aujla runs Catalog an agency which provides strategic advisory and recruiting services to companies that make money and do good. For the last ten years, Dev has been at the center of a progressive new generation that is rebuilding, redesigning and rethinking the ways that we do good and make money.
He is the founder of DreamNow, a charitable organization which has helped young people organize and start community projects. Over the last ten years, DreamNow has reached over fifty thousand people and raised million of dollars for sustainability and youth organizing. Dev has worked with large corporations such as BMW and Pepsi and with upstarts like GOOD/Corps and Change.org helping them to do good, build partnerships and launch programs across the United States and Canada.
Dev speaks regularly and has blogged for outlets that include INC Magazine and Fast Company. His writing and work have been featured in dozens of media outlets that include the New York Times, Glamour Magazine, MSNBC, CBC and The Globe and Mail.
Dev holds an English Literature degree from the University of Western Ontario and currently lives and works in New York and Toronto. He is the co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World
Book Dev
50 Ways to Get a Job
Thousands of young people graduate each year wanting jobs that make money and do good. They are tired of the ‘follow your passion’ rhetoric and are craving the actual path forward. Dev launched 50waystogetajob.com in 2014, and has since reached over 5 million people of all ages with the simple tangible steps they need to take to get a job that makes money and does good.
Dev’s keynote and workshop walks people through the tangible steps toward finding work; the behind the scenes stories of people that have found jobs; and shows people the path to find a hidden gold rush of opportunities that exist today making money–and doing good when doing so.
Making Good
Dev Aujla is the CEO of Catalog, a recruiting firm that has provided talent and strategy to some of the world’s most innovative companies including BMW, GOOD Magazine, Change.org, and Planned Parenthood. Dev is also a member of the team at Juxtapose, an early stage venture fund based in NYC. Dev began his career founding DreamNow, a nonprofit design studio that builds products and programs that change the world. DreamNow has reached more than 500,000 people and raised millions of dollars for projects that do good.
Dev speaks regularly and has blogged for outlets that range from INC Magazine to Fast Company. His writing and work have been featured in dozens of media outlets, including the New York Times, NPR, the Globe and Mail, CBC, MSNBC, and CBS News. Dev holds an English literature degree from the University of Western Ontario and currently lives and works in New York and Toronto.
In his spare time, Dev runs the Sorted Library, a small independent reading space in New York. He is the coauthor of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World. His most recent book is called 50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms and was published with Penguin TarcherPerigee in 2018.
Catalog was founded by Dev Aujla who has spent the last 10+ years at the center of a progressive new generation that is rebuilding, redesigning and rethinking the ways that we do good and make money.
The agency is based on the vision and values put forth in the book Making Good released by Penguin and Rodale and co authored by Dev Aujla and Billy Parish. We work with companies that make money and do good. These are start ups building initial teams, rapidly growing mid-level companies and select Fortune 500 companies which have potential to transform from the inside.
Recognizing we are in the early stages of talent development in this new economy, Catalog has a close partnership with Making Good, which as a non profit, is funded to run training programs which help people either build their skills or develop their personal mission making them ideal candidates for the companies we work with.
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Who says being a social entrepreneur demands sacrifice?
“People don’t [hear] the stories of entrepreneurs [who] are making money and doing good or living in a way where they have enough,” says Dev Aujla, co-author of the book, Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World. “They can actually live a really good life and get all the things they want.”
He should know. Among other do-gooder organizations, the 28-year-old has worked with Change.org to help mobilize citizen activists, as well as Good/Corps, an independent agency that's affiliated with the Los Angeles-based media platform, GOOD. There, he helped with a Pepsi media campaign that awarded millions of dollars in grants for social-impact ideas that assisted communities.
Aujla is also founder of DreamNow, a Toronto-based consultancy that helps charities and social enterprises further their social goals. More recently, he's planning to launch a firm that provides job-training and head-hunting services for social-purpose companies.
Here, Aujla discusses how socially-conscious treps can stand out from the pack and break into this competitive landscape:
Q: On college campuses today there's a group for just about every cause and affiliation. How do students know which ones to get involved in to actually create change?
A: The question really needs to start with you. What do you want to rebuild, redesign or rethink? What are you actually interested in tackling? You don’t have to decide this for your life, but just right now -- this second. I wouldn’t even default to going to student groups. There is so much out there that will help you on your career path.
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Q: So where do activists-in-training start their search?
A: Look for people who are rethinking, rebuilding, redesigning it already. I guarantee you, someone is already there. We’re all capable of using Google and figuring out who’s on the cutting edge of, say, tackling the furniture industry and making sustainable furniture, or rethinking the way corporate offices buy furniture. Your goal is to find those people, and, guess what, they want to meet you.
Q: Why do you argue in your book that many college students and grads don't have to work for free to beef up their resumes?
A: Your job is to prove you have a mission and skills, and you'll get hired. You don’t necessarily need to work for free, unless you need to build your mission or your skills.
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Q: How do you build your "mission and skills"?
A: There are lots of ways to get started. If you want to demonstrate your passion for sustainable products, for instance, show it. Start by knowing everything that's happening in your chosen field. You might learn even more if you start walking down the path as if you’re going to start your own company. Exploring that space will help you prove your point when you’re in an interview with somebody.
Q: How do young, relatively inexperienced treps get financial backing to launch a socially-conscious startup?
A: The No. 1 factor is to have a real business model. You’re not just running a business, of course. Your key advantage is your passion for what you’re doing, and, hopefully, you'll have a whole community of people willing to help. At the end of the day, you have to build relationships and put together a really good case for why your social business should receive funding. This is the same thing as any business.
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Q: Do you include yourself in that category of people who are "making good" and earning enough to have everything they want?
A: It’s a constant practice. It’s something you do daily -- especially as an entrepreneur. There are times when you don’t have a lot of money, or you’re pressed for time and hustling, hustling, hustling and trying to get customers. That thirst for more or even just 'enough' is very real and, once you obtain it, can make a tangible difference in an entrepreneur's life.
-This interview was edited for clarity and brevity.
50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms
Arthur Meyers
Booklist. 114.15 (Apr. 1, 2018): p37+.
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50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms. By Dev Aujla. Apr. 2018. 256p. TarcherPerigee, paper, $15 (9780143131533). 650.14.
This brief paperback draws from Aujla's (Making Good, 2012) extensive experience as the CEO of a recruiting firm that provides talent and strategy to innovative companies like BMW and Change.org. Reminiscent of the fresh thinking in What Color Is Your Parachute? (2018), the long-standing, annually updated, benchmark for an effective career guide, the focus here is on the job seeker as an individual exploring a wide range of occupations. It is as much a book on how to live as how to find work. It begins with the truism that job seeking today often does not follow a straight line. Instead, the author helps the reader to discover his or her unique path by making a list of different milestones, relationships, people, jobs, or experiences in life and connecting them chronologically. He then guides the reader with fun and practical exercises into the mechanics of job seeking, such as identifying likely work paths, networking, engaging your friends, applying, and interviewing. Patrons in job transition in public and academic libraries as well as new job seekers will find this quick read useful. --Arthur Meyers
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Meyers, Arthur. "50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms." Booklist, 1 Apr. 2018, p. 37+. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A534956808/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=49f8c883. Accessed 23 May 2018.
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50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Own Terms
Publishers Weekly. 265.7 (Feb. 12, 2018): p70.
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50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Own Terms
Dev Aujla. TarcherPerigee, $15 trade paper
(256p) ISBN 978-0-14-313153-3
Aujla, CEO of the recruiting firm Catalog, which works with nonprofits and startups, presents a practical guide for young people looking for their first--or their first paid--job. The book aims to teach job seekers how to understand their own skills and needs, and thereby improve their chances of finding suitable employment. Good jobs, Aujla advises optimistically, will feel natural and rejuvenating; bad jobs will turn a hapless employee into a stressed-out clock-puncher. So how to find the right one? Chock-full of exercises, this well-laid-out collection of concrete advice will help young readers feel better equipped to define their dream jobs, research potential employers, prep for big interviews, network effectively, and overcome obstacles when they inevitably get mired down. Clearly talking to millennials, Aujla urges a high-confidence approach which may feel foreign to the anxious parents dispensing this book as a graduation gift to their college seniors, but which will be endlessly helpful to the graduates themselves. Aujla has parlayed his experience into an excellent job hunter's 101 for the young and ambitious--or just unemployed. (Apr.)
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"50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Own Terms." Publishers Weekly, 12 Feb. 2018, p. 70. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A528615533/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=de5ae32e. Accessed 23 May 2018.
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Parish, Billy & Dev Aujla. Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World
Jane Scott
Library Journal. 137.3 (Feb. 15, 2012): p112+.
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Parish, Billy & Dev Aujla. Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World. Rodale. Mar. 2012. c.256p. ISBN 9781605290782. pap. $15.99. CAREERS
The realities of the recent recession, high unemployment rates, and ever-increasing student loan balances can justifiably dampen the bright moral imaginations of the generation now entering the workforce. Coauthors Parish (founder, Energy Action Coalition) and Aujla (founder, DreamNow) outline the skills, resources, and insights necessary to create socially responsible change while navigating a nonlinear career path. The authors use their more than ten years of personal experience as well as lessons from fellow pathfinders to put together this insider's guidebook to social entrepreneurship. They cover foundational concepts, preparatory exercises, daily practices, and resources helpful in creating careers that combine meaning, money, and community while "making good." VERDICT Highly recommended. An uplifting primer filled with practical insights for students who want to effect global change without sacrificing personal financial security or stability. The business acumen, leadership skills, as well as real-life examples illustrated here draw a compelling picture of careers that combine purpose and sustainable security.--Jane Scott, George Fox Univ. Lib., Newberg, OR
Scott, Jane
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Scott, Jane. "Parish, Billy & Dev Aujla. Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World." Library Journal, 15 Feb. 2012, p. 112+. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A335522652/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=aa8a7be6. Accessed 23 May 2018.
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Making good: finding meaning, money, and community in a changing world
E.G. Ferris
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 50.3 (Nov. 2012): p533.
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Making good: finding meaning, money, and community in a changing world, by Billy Parish and Dev Aujla. Rodale, 2012. 292p index ISBN 9781605290782 pbk, $15.99
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This book is for career choosers and changers of all ages. Coauthors Parish and Aujla (young activists and nonprofit organization founders) have helped young people create careers that make positive social impacts, and the authors' own successes provide sufficient credibility for older audiences to take them seriously. The authors take turns sharing their perspectives and stories throughout the book, which personalizes some of the general suggestions and adds to their significance. The steps offered at the beginning of the book sound almost too easy: see yourself, see others, and recognize your choices. By the end of the book, however, the exercises are more challenging and lead to useful insights. For example, instead of just asking for answers to questions, the authors advise readers to ask about people who have asked similar questions. Readers who follow the steps provided in the book may find themselves in jobs that enable them to do good by making good. For advice on creating meaningful work and making a positive impact on society, see also Social Entrepreneurship, by David Bornstein and Susan Davis (CH, Oct'10, 48-0968), and The Social Entrepreneur's Handbook, by Rupert Scofield (CH, Aug'12, 49-6984). Summing Up: Recommended. ** All collections.--E. G. Ferris, Goodwin College
Ferris, E.G.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Ferris, E.G. "Making good: finding meaning, money, and community in a changing world." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Nov. 2012, p. 533. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A307526364/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=fd8f891a. Accessed 23 May 2018.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A307526364
Whether you are a recent college grad or trying to make a major career move, looking for a new job can be dizzying. There is no "right way" to find your next gig or land yourself on the career path of your dreams, but a little guidance can put you on track.
50 Ways to Get a Job is helping job hunters do just that by swapping traditional career advice for a color-coded, endlessly clickable interactive website full of exercises meant to inspire, organize, and ignite your job search.
Created by Dev Aujla and Billy Parish, co-authors of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World, 50 Ways to Get a Job helps people around the world discover their true calling.
The site is divided into eight stages, ranging from "Finding My Purpose" to "Stuck." Each category features small (and very doable) missions like creating a job search spreadsheet or taking time to sit quietly.
Some steps like "Discover How Long Your Money Will Last" are rather sobering, but when paired with fun tasks like "Go on a Solo Trip," the careening path of advice is bound to both entertain and prepare even the most overwhelmed future employee.
The site aims to connect people with non-profit jobs or roles in the "social good sphere," but the practical exercises can be applied to any sector. Though the 50 steps are numbered, following them out of order is encouraged. As the site states, "There is no one linear path to figuring out how to live well."
To Make Good or Make Bank? A Review of Billy Parish and Dev Aujla's New Book
Posted by Jared Duval on March 24, 2012
Today, many young people wanting to do good face a confounding puzzle.
While we belong to “the most progressive generation in American history” and exhibit record levels of commitment to positive social change, our generation is currently experiencing the highest unemployment rate in the country. Even among those who do have jobs, many of us are making less than did those who were our age thirty years ago (25-34 year old men today make 10% less today than did those of that age group in 1980).
Furthermore, to pursue our dreams, we have had to take on obscene levels of debt - especially of the educational and predatory credit card varieties. And even if we do get that job, it’s no secret that the work that advances social good occurs in sectors - non-profit, public, or social-enterprise - less stable and lower-paying than many pursuits in the private sector.
Given all of this, many of us wonder: how can we pursue and achieve our deeply held pro-social goals while still attaining some semblance of personal economic security?
Making this puzzle seem solvable is what motivated Billy Parish and Dev Aujla to co-author their incredibly timely, illuminating, and useful book, Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World (February 28th 2012, Rodale). Certainly, the title seems counterintuitive. How many people create real, positive change in the world from the starting point of wanting to make money? And in an economy like this? If you read the title and fear that buying it will leave you with little but well-worn platitudes and that the only ones “making good” will be its authors, I understand your skepticism. But how thankfully wrong you would be.
Making Good: Finding meaning, money, and community in a changing world
Written by Jessica Lockhart February 28, 2012
It seems like everyone has a story of how they first heard of Dev Aujla.
It seems like everyone has a story of how they first heard of Dev Aujla. Making Good co-author, environmental activist Billy Parish, is no exception. “He was kind of a mystical figure in the youth-organizing world of Canada,” Parish writes in the book’s first pages.
Well-known in the non-profit, social entrepreneurship and youth engagement sector, Aujla is also no stranger to Verge. In 2010, he was the keynote speaker at the Go Global Expo, where his address focused on how to make money and change the world.
That’s why it came as no surprise when we learned that Aujla, along with Parish, was releasing a book focused on how to find meaning, make money and build communities in a changing world. The book, Making Good, provides career advice for “Rebuilders,” or people who are interested in making good and making money.
Rather than acting as a definitive how-to guide for social entrepreneurs, the book serves as an inspiration point. By outlining opportunities in a range of industries, relating anecdotes from the authors’ own careers and providing daily exercises, Making Good serves as reassurance that it's possible to make a career out of social change.
This past weekend, Aujla and I spoke about the role that travel plays in making good—and making money.
The message in Making Good that really resonated for me was the idea that easily definable and linear career paths are dying. I also appreciated the emphasis on the importance of establishing work-life balance. As an individual who splits your time between New York and Toronto, do you ever find it difficult to maintain that balance?
One of the disciplines in the book is about the power to choose. It’s the ability to remember that you always have choice over what you’re going to do right now. It enables you to choose everything from a better place and get more done.Taking the time to reflect can actually make things move a lot faster.
You write about the importance of reflection and open-mindedness, as well as the clarity of perception that comes from travelling. Why is it important to carry that mindset into your everyday life?
Sometimes when you come back after a trip, you fall into a routine. You forget to find that astonishment or new way of looking at things within your city or within your routine.
It’s triggered automatically when we’re in that travel mode, but what I find fascinating is that each of us can find that newness in our everyday lives. It’s one of those things that spurs creativity or can bring on new ideas. You need to go away or into that space where you’re actually alone to make sense of it all.
When was a time that travel allowed you to find that clarity and sense of purpose?
One of my favorite trips is when I went to Malaysia and biked down the East Coast. I flew into the far North, found a little bike shop and bought a bike. I stopped along the way and talked to people about the disappearance of turtles—I was really into turtles at the time.
[On the trip] I found myself going along a little side road towards the water and [found] this beach resort that had been abandoned years ago. There was absolutely nobody around. Zero people. You could just disappear.
It was one of those moments where being that alone brings on so much. It was an amazing experience—it let me bring together all the stuff I’d been thinking about.
One of the suggested exercises in Making Good is to build a “course pack,” or a book of articles and newspaper clippings that provide motivation. In your course pack, were there any travelers that you looked to for inspiration?
One of the people I had in my course pack was David Mayer de Rothschild. He founded an organization called Adventure for Ecology, which is based on adventure travel with a social mission. He retraced the path of the Kon-Tiki expedition by making a boat, called the Plastiki, out of plastic bottles. It raised awareness about plastic bottles and how they end up in the ocean. He’s a fascinating guy.
As funding changes occur for international development, non-profit and volunteer-sending organizations, what role do you think Rebuilders will play?
There’s a need for people to learn about the rest of the world and that need is going to get fulfilled no matter what. It’s a real opportunity for people to rethink how travel abroad happens.
We’ve been relying on [government and foundation funding]. But what does it look like when we have to take it upon ourselves? We can do it with others—we don’t have to do it alone. But we can’t rely on some of the institutions that we’ve been relying on.
There’s a role for groups who are trying to do travel abroad in a way that’s holistic, based on community needs and not just voluntourism. That’s what the book is premised on—for-profits can be just as mission-focused as the non-profits.
What is your organization, DreamNow, up to at the moment?
We’re launching a job-training program that’s based on the information in the book. Making Good is about showing people that it’s possible to make money and change the world. The job-training program is to get people the actual skills and actualize some of the stuff that we talk about. You can find out more about it on makinggood.org.