Heading into the final year of your college career can be both exciting and frightening at the same time. On one hand, receiving your diploma means no more classes, research ...
Being a college grad in the middle of a recession is one of the toughest times to try to find a job. Unfortunately, there are thousands of students who have recently graduated – ...
Prove and Persist to Get Hired
To get hired for any good job you must do two things: prove to employers that you can do the work, and persist past the point where others give ...
Email plays an increasingly important role in our lives both in and out of the office. In fact, the most popular web mail service, Yahoo! Mail turned 10 years old in October, ...
Congratulations! You’ve graduated from college, successfully completed the resume shuffle and interview dance, and now are knee deep into your first job in the “real world.” ...
You’ve been asked a million times: “What do you want to do?” I’ve spent the last three years of my life getting answers to that question, and here’s what I’ve learned.
1. Your ...
You need experience to get a job, but you need a job to get experience. New college grads often find themselves caught in the middle of this classic Catch 22, and may spend ...
A recurring question we are asked as we enter the working world is, “What do you want to do?” Having a confident answer is easier said than done.
When I was close to finishing ...
The first thing that comes to your mind after getting your degree is to find a lucrative job in your chosen field. The job market is highly competitive and it is important to ...
College graduates had been on a good run during 2006, when they hit the streets for their first jobs. However, a February report from the Labor Department may mean that the brakes ...
Are you a college student or a recent graduate? Chances are you're saddled with a hefty amount of student loans as well as consumer debt, like car payments and credit card ...
Having graduated with a degree in journalism just a few months ago, it feels like there are so few options, but so many opportunities.
Who wants to hire someone with less than ...
Even though senior year is just beginning, it may be the best time to spend a few hours here and there preparing for the road ahead. The rude awakening brought on by the real ...
Being new in the working world, I am sure you are eager to show off your newfound skills and knowledge. However, out there in the working world some basic work effective habits ...
On-campus interviewing has been on a long, slow decline for the past fifteen years at college campuses nationwide. The past five years have seen one of the worst slumps for ...
The one aspect of job search preparation that can truly set you apart is employer research. Employer research is what brings you together and keeps you together with those who ...
Job hunting is serious business. To be successful, you'll need to organize your job search like a business. While a manila file folder labeled "Jobs" will serve you well as a ...
The company site interview. Very few college students will make it this far with our company. Only 10-20%. Most students are weeded out during on-campus interviews. They receive ...
I have some confessions to make. I'm a Hiring Manager. I can hire you. But I can also decide not to hire you. And for every person I hire, as many as twenty hopeful contenders are ...
