Tag: after college
Tips for hiring the best college graduates
Today’s job market is constantly evolving to accommodate new technology, new industries and new workers.
Two Important Job Searching Tips Before Applying
If you’ve recently graduated from college and are preparing to search for your first entry-level position, then you likely know the importance of producing a strong cover letter, resume, educational transcript, professional and character references and portfolio pieces. However, you might not be aware of lesser-known but important preparations you should make before even [...]
Experience Datapulse: Statistics for Entry Level Job Seekers
With December fast approaching our system shows at least 31,000 students from our network will be graduating from their college or university. Congratulations to all of our 2011 graduates! We have a wealth of data on entry level jobs in our network that we would like to share with you. The numbers should help you [...]
Resend resume? No! Follow up with an Email!!
In today’s digital and interconnected world, the old job hunting tips and techniques of decades past no longer seem to apply. Recent college graduates like you must make use of internet searches, emails, resumes and cover letters among other electronic avenues when searching for an ideal entry level position. While the digital job search is [...]
Tips to help turn your interview into an offer
Your business suit has been cleaned and pressed. The resume on which you worked diligently sits in your briefcase. The big interview is tomorrow, and you know you can nail it. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you’re cool as a cucumber or currently battling a bad case of the butterflies – anyone searching for [...]
Are You Dating Your Boss?
Are you dating your boss? No, not actually dating your boss- silly, but are you searching for the right company, the right employer, the right boss? Searching for a new job, a new company, and a new boss to establish a long-term relationship can be emotionally draining. It is like trying to find that perfect [...]
A Question for the Readers
As members of Generation Y, we’re subject to all sorts of assumptions about our priorities, work styles, and habits. We’re entitled, we’re creative, we’re lazy, we’re innovative. It can be hard to prove ourselves during a job interview or even on the job when we don’t know if the reputation of our generation has preceded [...]
Improve Your Job Search by Improving Your Health
Frustrated with your job search? Unhappy with your current career? Bored with college and can’t wait to get out into the real world? These are all pretty common problems among Gen Y right now, and there are solutions to all of them, some simple and some far less than simple, depending on your particular situation [...]
You Have to Go to School to be a Librarian? Or, Graduate Programs You May Not Have Considered
When I first started telling people that I was in Master’s Degree program in Library Science, I almost always got one of two reactions: 1. Yeah, I can see that. 2. Wait. You have to go to school to be a librarian? Yes, yes you do. To be a librarian, not a library clerk or [...]
How to Use Rejection to Improve Your Talents
The day I graduated from college in 2004, the first thing I did was visit a friend of mine who is an artist in her early fifties and asked her 2 questions: 1) How will I know when I am doing the right thing in life? 2) What if I choose this path as a [...]
Cover Letter Advice: Personalize It!
In terms of tasks to complete before you begin your job search, the cover letter is right up there with the resume, reference letter, and snappy outfit for the interview. The cover letter introduces you to a potential employer, and explains why you, of all people, should be considered for a job. In one page [...]
Get in the Know: How to Get an Edge in Your Career
When I joined the workforce in the Content Distribution in the Partner Marketing department, I had never heard of such a department, nor did I really know what it was about. I learned about it as I began working but I also began to learn more from trade magazines and newsletters. College and formal education [...]
How I Got My First (Full-Time) Job
It finally feels like spring, a time when flowers bloom, allergies ripen, and college seniors everywhere begin to panic, just a little, about what comes next. While some may already plan to go to graduate school, and some may have been working all throughout the school years (kudos to you guys, by the way. Work [...]
It’s What You Do, Not What You Want
Towards the end of my graduate school career, I spent a lot of time reading career advice books and websites, trying to find just the right information that would help me figure out exactly what kind of job I wanted, and of course, how to get it. There was a lot of information, and a [...]
