A Three-Hour Cure for Your Quarter-Life Crisis: My Life Coaching Experience
Categories: Lifestyle
Charlotte Glasser grudgingly agrees to experiment with a life coach. The results are surprising as this hard-as-nails pessimist asks for real help.
DIY: How to Create A Resume that Stands Out
Categories: Business, DIY Week
Regardless of your sparkling personality, great interview skills, or fascinating work history, your resume is a large part of whether or not you get hired.
Top of the Class: Doing well in college gets you more than a degree
Categories: Business
Doing well in college while you’re there can have drastic affects on your success in the job market after graduation.
Networking for N00bs
Categories: Business
Networking isn’t just cocktail hours and pre-sanctioned registrations where eager wanna bes try to shmooze with middle-aged, balding execs.
How To Stand Up for Yourself at Work
Categories: Business
As young professionals, we need to reach for challenges and take risks while developing the confidence to demand fair compensation.
Law School + Unemployment = Cupcakes?
Categories: Business
The economic downturn left Lev Ekster, who graduated from New York Law School Cum Laude in May 2009, unexpectedly jobless. But that joblessness, combined with an entrepreneurial mindset and a penchant for sweets, led to CupcakeStop, New York City’s first gourmet mobile cupcake shop.
Dos and Don’ts for Your Office Holiday Party
Categories: Lifestyle
For those new to the workforce, a word of advice: “party” has a different meaning in the work world than the college parties of yore. Here’s a list of company holiday party dos and don’ts that guarantee you’ll still you’re your job in 2011.
5 Ways to Prepare for Career Life in College
Categories: Business
Good grades will not land you the job you want, but brainstorming what you are passionate about and figuring out how to pursue it will. Beyond writing thank-you notes and buying interview clothes, I’ve discovered a few things that will help you find a career, not just a job. This is what I wish someone had told me to do when I was in school.
Don’t Lament, Just be Prepared for a Reality Check
Categories: Lifestyle
By Julia Drewniak As of May 23, I will officially be a college graduate. While I am glad to be finished with classes, I do have the huge hurdle of finding a job ahead of me. While I’m nervous about this task, I don’t view it as pessimistically as Mr. Queenan, as he describes in [...]
Get Experience, Paid or Unpaid
Categories: Education Week
Grand, sweeping statement coming up: an internship is the best, most important thing you can do while in school. No, seriously, it’s true. Everyone takes classes and studies hard. Everyone joins clubs. But internships are what set you apart. Above all, they are vital because they give you a sense, before you’re flung into the [...]
