College is Obsolete. Why I Jumped Into Something Better
The following is a guest post by Praxis participant Nate Baker. When I moved off to college, I was 18 years old and ready to begin the next chapter of my life. I was looking forward to exploring big ideas, meeting ambitious people, and navigating the beginning of a fulfilling career. I was hungry, curious, and […]
How does the Praxis education experience differ from a college education experience?
The Praxis education experience is unique in that it does not disconnect regular content consumption from regular content creation. Rather than, for example, studying for an entire semester to be able to pass a midterm and a final, Praxis participants tie each act of learning to a deliverable act of creation at least once every […]
Get Out of Your Preparation Mindset
I spoke with a college student the other day over lunch about her career goals. She told me she’s studying journalism. She plans to be a political journalist. “What have you written?” I asked? “Do you have a personal website?” “Umm,” she said nervously, “well I have this one essay I wrote in my English […]
Can I do Praxis as a gap year?
You don’t have to skip college to do Praxis. Some of our participants choose to do Praxis as a gap year after high school, during a four-year college stint, or right after graduation. Why should I do a Praxis gap year? If you like school but don’t know what you want to do with your life, […]
Ditch Your Resume – Build A Pitch Deck
I have never seen a resume that I remember, and I have seen plenty of resumes from great and qualified candidates. This sentiment is echoed by businesses with whom I speak and the people who do the hiring. The reality is, a resume is much like a business card — it won’t ever get you […]
4 Outdated Job Search Steps and What to Do Instead
As a young professional at a growing startup that helps people begin their careers, I’ve seen people learn the hard way that much of what they’re taught in school about getting a job simply doesn’t work. I’ve seen people apply to dozens of jobs and get no answer back even though they did “everything right.” […]
What do Praxis participants do after they complete the program?
96% of Praxis graduates receive a full time job offer, from their business partner or other businesses in our network, immediately upon completion of the program. Most graduates take that job offer, and our graduates make an average of $50,000 per year. But that’s just the beginning. As we’ve written elsewhere, the program is designed to help […]
Four Lessons I Learned from Dropping Out of College
I sat at my desk reading the same page for the third time in a row. It was a Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution. No matter how hard I tried to be interested, I just couldn’t care. I had been a Dean’s list student my freshman year but by the second semester of my […]
Where does Praxis take place?
Praxis takes place wherever the best opportunities are found across the United States and Canada. We believe in taking advantage of the connected world we live in, freeing people from the constraints of geography, harnessing powerful entrepreneurial hubs, and challenging participants to gain the skills that can only come from moving to a new city…all […]
What are the requirements for joining Praxis?
There are no hard requirements to do Praxis. We aren’t looking to make people jump through hoops to put a little check mark in a box. Praxis is radically different than most options that are available to young people today and by necessity, we’re looking for people who aren’t just following all the rules so […]
Do I have to skip college to join Praxis?
Definitely not. Praxis is for anyone who is tired of waiting to create value and wants to start their career now rather than postpone it. From homeschoolers to law school dropouts, Praxis participants are bound together by a desire to accelerate their professional growth. Some participants drop out, others skip college entirely, but many do […]
Why do Praxis when you can just go get a job?
“If your participants are so good, why don’t they just go get jobs on their own?” I get this question occasionally when pitching new Praxis business partners. They hear how Praxis participants can create value for their businesses on day one, how they are courageous, ambitious go-getters, and how they are people excited about working […]
What is it like to move for the Praxis program?
Short answer: it’s pretty awesome. Many of our business partners are located in major startup hubs like Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Austin, or San Francisco. That means participants often choose to pick up and move to take advantage of their best Praxis opportunities. Some of our participants are moving for the first time, so naturally they (and […]
I’m a college grad looking for a career change. Can Praxis help me?
Yes! At Praxis we don’t focus on your formal educational status. Whether you have no degree, an undergraduate degree or two, or graduate degree, if you want to dive in to an intense professional development program and startup career, we can help. We have participants and alumni with and without degrees. We don’t have a […]
How can I be sure Praxis will pay off for me?
One of the #1 questions we get about Praxis comes in some form of “How can I be sure this is going to pay off for me?” While we always remind people that in life there are no guarantees and that the value of a particular program depends on the goals of the individual, here are some […]