Straight answers for your job search
Guides for every stage, from your first internship to a change of career, and monthly data from Carir's job board with the method printed beside every number.
Early careers
How to find internships that are still open
Search by the title words, narrow by date, and confirm on the employer's own page: a short method for finding internships that are still taking applications, and spotting the ones that aren't real.
Entry level, junior, associate, new grad: how to read a posting's level
What the level words in a job title mean, which ones mislead, and what to do when the title says entry level but the requirements ask for years of experience.
Job market data
Internship postings by field: what Carir's board shows this month
How many internship postings Carir's job board held in the last 30 days for fourteen fields, from marketing and sales to electrical engineering, and how to read the counts.
Remote, hybrid or on-site: how postings split by role
How postings on Carir's job board split between remote, hybrid and on-site work for eight common roles in the last 30 days, and why the board leans remote.
Where the early-career postings are this month
How many early-career postings Carir's job board held in the last 30 days for nine kinds of role, from sales and engineering to project coordination, and the early roles that never say so in the title.
Job search
Changing careers without inventing experience
How to present a career change truthfully: translate the work you have done into the new field's words, map every requirement to real evidence, and close the gaps with work instead of wording.
Why the newest postings deserve your first hour
Why a posting's first days are the best time to apply, why the dates on job sites mislead, and a one-hour daily routine built around new roles.
Who to contact about a job, and how to find them honestly
Who to write to about a role, in order; where to find them on public pages; why a published address beats a guessed one; and a four-sentence note that gets read.
How Carir works
What a job match score tells you, and what it doesn't
What goes into a resume-to-job match score, how to use the evidence behind it, and why it is not a prediction of an interview.
AI in your job search: what to hand off and what to keep
Which parts of a job search AI does well, which ones you should keep, and the questions to ask any tool before it sends anything in your name.