Happy Monday!

Welcome to your daily dose of curated early-career opportunities! Your job search shouldn’t feel confusing, late, or based on luck.

Here's what nobody tells you about the job search: it's not about applying to more jobs. It's about being first.

The same role LinkedIn shows you 3-5 days from now is already sitting in a pile of 500 applications. Runway pulls jobs straight from company career sites the moment they post, so you see them first, when there are 15 applicants, not 500. 

Who sees the role and applies first is the whole game.

Below are today's freshest early-career roles. See all your matches here:

Here are today's fresh opportunities for Monday, August 3rd:

Quick note before we dive in on how to use Linkedin to get a job…

LinkedIn is a good place to find jobs, no doubt, but it's not where jobs start. Roles hit company career sites first and show up on LinkedIn days later, already buried under hundreds of applicants.

That's the whole reason we built Runway to pull listings straight from 175,000+ company career sites the moment they post, so you're applying first instead of last.

So use Runway to find the freshest roles. Then use LinkedIn the right way to work them. Here's how:

Get found: fix your keywords

Recruiters search LinkedIn like a database, using keywords. If your profile doesn't contain the words they're searching for, you're invisible no matter how qualified you are.

Put the terms from your target roles into your headline, your About section, and your experience. If you want data analyst roles, "data analyst," "SQL," and "Excel" should appear naturally throughout. This alone gets you into searches you were missing.

Turn on the recruiter signals

Two free settings do real work: "Open to Work" (set to recruiters-only if you want discretion) tells recruiters you're available. And a complete, keyword-rich profile ranks higher in their searches.

These are passive, they work while you sleep. Set them once and recruiters start finding you.

Use it to find the humans behind jobs

This is where LinkedIn actually shines. When you find a job (on Runway, ideally, while it's still fresh), come to LinkedIn to find a real person, the recruiter, or someone on the team you'd join.

Now you can follow up directly instead of shouting into the application void. A short, specific message to a human beats a resume lost in a pile of 500 every time.

The alumni search is your cheat code

LinkedIn lets you filter people by your school. Alumni respond to students from their school at dramatically higher rates than strangers.

Search "[your school] + [company or field]," find a grad, and send a short note asking how they got started. Shared school is an instant reason for them to help you.

Post and engage (even a little)

You don't have to become an influencer. But commenting thoughtfully on posts in your field, or sharing something you're working on, keeps you visible and makes you a familiar name.

When you later message someone, "oh, I've seen your comments" is a warm start instead of a cold one. Small presence, real payoff.

Send connection requests with a note

Don't send blank requests. Add one line: "Hi [Name], I'm a [year] at [school] interested in [field], would love to connect and follow your work."

A personal note dramatically raises acceptance rates and starts the relationship on the right foot. Connections are only useful if they actually remember who you are.

Do this today: Find a fresh role on Runway, then hop to LinkedIn and find the recruiter or an alum at that company. Apply early and reach a human. That combination is how you actually get interviews.

You got this!
-Ford from Runway

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