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2018 | Career Planning, Career Services, Focusing Job Search, Getting Traction, Interviews, Parents, Post-College Job Search

Holidays or Horrible Days? Don’t Let Talk About Your “Job Search” Sabotage Thanksgiving

If you’re headed home for Thanksgiving, then your post-college plans will be the second most emotionally charged topic over the holidays — after reacting to President Trump’s latest Twitter tantrum. This is especially true if you’re a junior, senior, or an...
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2018 | Focusing Job Search, Getting Traction, Internships, Interviews, Post-College Job Search

Three Tips for Breaking Out of Your Summer Job Search Funk

OK, it’s almost the end of summer. You’ve finished school. It’s hot, and your job search is dead in the water. You’d rather hit the beach or hang out with friends. You can start a serious job search in the fall, right? Not really. Your bank account is shrinking fast,...
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2018 | Focusing Job Search, Internships, Resumes

How to Get a Killer Recommendation From Your Internship

If you’ve had a good internship this summer, or if you have a great one during the school year, rule #1 is don’t leave without a terrific recommendation! You may want your boss to add it to your LinkedIn profile, or take it in another electronic form. But get...
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2018 | Career Planning, Focusing Job Search, Internships, Post-College Job Search

How to Ask Someone to Be Your Mentor

Finding mentors is one of the most important things you can do to get your career off on the right foot. There’s a great post on the Forbes website by Sabina Nawaz called “9 Tips to Land a Great Mentor: How to Ask a Stranger for Career Advice.” The advice in this post...
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2018 | Focusing Job Search, Getting Traction, Interviews, Post-College Job Search

Graduating Without a Job? Start Landing Interviews Now!

Are you graduating from college this month without a job? About 50% of the “successful” recent grads I studied for my recent book Graduate to a Great Job didn’t know what they wanted to do for work when they got their diploma. So stop beating yourself up if you don’t...
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2018 | Career Planning, Career Services, Focusing Job Search, Getting Traction, Internships, Parents, Post-College Job Search

Pop Quiz: Is Your Job Search Plan Too Risky?

If you expect to score a college degree in the next couple of years, or you did so recently, take the quiz below to see if you’re likely to land on your feet in the job market. You may be surprised at the answer. 1. Is your major in demand in the job market? ___ Yes...
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Holidays or Horrible Days? Don’t Let Talk About Your “Job Search” Sabotage Thanksgiving

Three Tips for Breaking Out of Your Summer Job Search Funk

How to Get a Killer Recommendation From Your Internship

How to Ask Someone to Be Your Mentor

Graduating Without a Job? Start Landing Interviews Now!

Pop Quiz: Is Your Job Search Plan Too Risky?

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Three Tips for Breaking Out of Your Summer Job Search Funk

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Graduating Without a Job? Start Landing Interviews Now!

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