Career Center to Welcome World's Most Ambitious Job Seeker

The Career Center will host Daniel Seddiqui, best-selling author and motivational speaker, at 7 p.m. April 7 in the Student Union Building Activities Room.

Seddiqui is known as the World’s Most Ambitious Job Seeker, yet has been named by USA Today as the Most Rejected Person in the World. With failing more than 40-plus consecutive job interviews, sending out 18,000 emails and making nearly 5,000 phone calls, he achieved his mission of working 50 jobs in 50 states. Leaving his economics degree from the University of Southern California behind, he's been everything from a weatherman in Ohio and a border patrol agent in Arizona, to a coal miner in West Virginia and a rodeo announcer in South Dakota.

He is best known for creating Living the Map, which raises awareness of the varying cultures, careers and environments across the country through outreach, educational endeavors and community building. He has been featured on many national and international media outlets, such as CNN, Fox News, NPR, Today Show, AP, MSN, Yahoo!, C-SPAN, World News Tonight, WSJ and MSNBC.

Seddiqui will cover overcoming failure, entrepreneurship, persistence and adaptability, as well as college-to-career lessons. For more information, contact the Career Center.