Today is day twenty-one of HP and Microsoft’s ‘Back to School and Better Together’ Giveaway, which means that One Day One Job will begin theirs. Up for grabs is a computer combo containing an HP dv6, an HP Mini 110 and Syncables software – which allows you to keep the larger laptop at home but carry the smaller netbook (synced and carrying all of your data!) when on the go. The Winner will also get a customized One Day One Job Timbuk2 bag to carry their loot!

From the Post on One Day One Job:

There are two ways to enter.

1. Leave a comment on this post detailing how your college’s Career Services office (make sure that you name your school) is using social media to engage students. We want links to their blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning site, and anything else they’re using. If it’s students only, then tell us all about it without the links.

This is a great way to practice your online research skills, which are essential to the job hunt.

2. Introduce yourself to someone in your college’s Career Services office, and comment here with your name, theirs, and the name of your college. You can do this in-person, over the phone, or online.

Be sure to tell him or her about One Day, One Job, One Day, One Internship, and Found Your Career. And don’t forget to encourage him or her to spread the word about us to other students and add a link to us from the Career Services website.

If you’re selected as the winner, we’ll verify with the Career Services staff member that you actually introduced yourself and told them about us.

This is a fantastic way to practice networking, which is one of the most important skills in the job search.

Either way, your comment on this post is your official entry. You can only enter once, and be sure to use a real e-mail address so that we can notify you if you win. We’ll randomly select the winner from all of the entries.

Enter at One Day One Job.


You have 25 separate chances to win a similar prize package; this is the complete schedule of all upcoming contests:

Good luck! And as always, if you win on any of the sites because you learned about the contest here on Gear Diary, we’d love to hear about it!