I started HireClub in 2011 with just 25 of my friends That’s relatively ancient in internet times. It was just an idea. We didn’t plan to make money nor build a business. Overtime it grew, it helped me find amazing people to hire and helped others find jobs. Fast. To…

Before San Francisco Before your job, before your apartment, before your credit card and your bank account and before college and before relationships and before middle school. Before any of that, you were free. Summer days were endless. You’d get up at whatever time your mom yelled at you to…

I want to shatter this myth that if you somehow are earning money on the side while trying to build your startup you are not committed. There’s a set of people who come from a very privileged place that can raise money for their startups at the drop of a…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kspj3OO0s The singer from the Cranberries died today. I remember that song Linger really well. I was 16 and somehow met this girl named Melissa who was 17. She lived in Rockville, Maryland and liked Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. A theater girl. We had our first date in Georgetown, she wanted…

Today HireClub hit 20,000 members. That’s 20,000 people that will encourage and support you in your job search. That’s 20,000 people that can help you in your career. That’s 20,000 friends helping each other find jobs. Now while this number might represent a quantity, HireClub as a community is…

1987 You lived and died by your Walkman. Even now years later I still remember the order of songs, ACDC She Shook Me All Night Long into Welcome to the Jungle into Kickstart my heart. We lived in a white trash apartment complex in Richmond, Virginia. It was the shape…

Finding Work I want to talk about something a little different. I know many of you are out there, hustling to find a job. And it gets brutal on your psyche when the job you want doesn’t work out or it takes longer than you would like to even get…

I had a simple idea this morning. Whoever wins the Democratic nomination should offer the position of running mate to the loser. If Bernie Sanders wins, he would find no better Vice President candidate then Hilary Clinton. …

I grew up in Virginia in the 80s. I didn’t realize my skin color was different until I was 10 years old at the swimming pool and some old white lady complimented me on my tan. American schools are brutal even if you are white. Turban head, camel jockey, sand…