Matt & MJW Careers’ 2025 Rewind

🎬 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱: 𝗜 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄, 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗩𝗨, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝘀 💀

Let’s be real — 2025 was weird in the best way.

I mixed trading cards with career coaching (QuadC was born — 73 episodes in season 1 with season 2 starting Friday!), guest-starred on Law & Order: SVU as Detective Nate Smalls, ran a 12 Days of Career Clarity campaign, and got quoted by Yale, Yahoo, and Morning Brew in the same year.

📊 𝗕𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀:
✅ 25,580 LinkedIn followers
✅ 867+ recommendations (still wild to me)
✅ ~20,000 newsletter subscribers
✅ 69 QuadC episodes released

🔥 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁:

🎭 SVU in May — Detective Nate Smalls. Lots of adrenaline. Lots of grateful.

🎴 QuadC — Cards, Cuts, Cash & Careers became my weird hybrid show where I rip trading card packs AND drop career advice. Turns out people dig authenticity.

📰 Media features — Her Campus, BuiltIn, Forage, DollarSprout, Yale content, Emory, Yahoo, Morning Brew, WECT News… the recruiter insights kept traveling.

🎁 12 Days of Career Clarity — Resume audits, LinkedIn keyword scans, interview blueprints. Tactical offers that cut through holiday noise.

🎤 Spoke to the Wilmington Young Mogul Development Group on resumes and entrepreneurship. Teaching the next generation? That hits different.

📈 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱:

My post on what 800 recruiters REALLY look for when hiring exploded (186 comments!): https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7342934886107750400

The SVU announcement — you all showed up: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7328872377822371840

10 steps to close your skill gaps: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7328775455493320704

🧠 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗜’𝗺 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲:

1. Blend your interests with your expertise — people remember distinct, not generic
2. Practical, recruiter-rooted advice wins every time
3. AI is reshaping job search — adapt or get left behind
4. Human stories (family, hobbies, side gigs) build trust faster than credentials alone

💛 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝘀:

To every client who trusted me with their career story — watching you land offers never gets old.

To Gus for joining me on Take Your Kid to Work Day and card shows.

To my dad — 5 years now. Still swinging ’em straight up there, bud.

And to this community — the Jobstickers Nation. You make this work matter.

🚀 Ready to make 2026 the year you stop playing career roulette?

Book a chat with Matt at: https://calendly.com/mjwcareers and get you some Matt Magic in the new year!
Also, grab my free e-book: mjwcareers.com

You got this. 💪 Hope you end with a bang and start with a twang🤘

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