Doostang is more than your average career networking site. Many of the Premium Job postings on Doostang are not available on any other website or through any other resource. Our commitment to target only the most highly qualified candidates enables us to forge strong relationships with employers like Summit Partner, Google, Time Warner, and Goldman Sachs, who in turn grant us the exclusive ability to allow applicants to apply directly to the hiring manager and bypass the "black hole" of online applications.After graduating in 2009 from Dartmouth with a double major in Economics and Government, Mike discovered the Doostang Advantage:
"After graduation, I followed many of my peers to the management consulting industry. I initially found a job at a small consulting firm in Washington, DC, but after four months I realized that I wanted a greater challenge. Unfortunately, I had only my four months of work experience plus the few things I learned in college to offer - in the middle of an increasingly widespread recession.
To my pleasant surprise, Doostang was able to connect me with a startup economic consulting company in Boston called Advanced Analytical Consulting Group.Advanced Analytical was only three months old at the time, and its job listings were exclusively on Doostang.
Thanks to Doostang, I was able - in the middle of a recession! - to get a more interesting, more challenging, and better-paying job."
This success story comes from a 2008 graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Aftering finishing graduate school in Fall 2008, I spent about 6-7 months searching for a job. As everyone knows, the job market was not kind to recent graduates, and I was trying anything and everything to land a job - from attending conferences to cold calling people. I was convinced that the traditional method of sending a resume and cover letter through a job search engine was not going to cut it in this environment. However, Doostang was the remarkable exception to this rule. I was beginning to find myself receiving more interviews through positions I applied for on Doostang than via any other means.
"...the epic long search ended with me finding an amazing position, in the exact field I wanted through simply clicking 'Send' on Doostang!"
So of course, I shouldn't have been surprised when the epic long search ended with me finding an amazing position, in the exact field I wanted, through simply clicking 'Send' on Doostang! I think the true value in this site is that you can be pretty confident that someone is reading your application - and you are always given a real person to follow-up with. In true social networking fashion, you are connected to recruiters and employers in a reliable way. When people ask me how I found my job, I always love to tell the story of how I was trying everything in the book - and in the end it was Doostang that faciliated the opportunity that I was looking for!
