This is a story of two students. Both are graduating college this weekend. As freshman, each had an idea of the career they wanted to pursue and chose their majors accordingly. Each directed their on-campus activities to align with their careers and rose to leadership positions within the organizations. And both had summer internships in […]
Riding a bike. Spiking the ball. Eating all of the pellets on the game board. All require skills you learned, and then mastered. A job search is no different. There are specific skills to conducting a job search that once learned, can help make search more productive. #1: Get into the right mindset It is […]
The end of summer brings an end to most internship programs. You’ve worked hard all summer to make a positive and lasting impression on your supervisor and work colleagues. You wrapped up your internship appropriately leaving no loose ends on projects, sending thank you notes and connecting with people on LinkedIn. Before heading back to […]
Recently I’ve received a number of inquiries from young and experienced professionals about career transitions. Their reasons for wanting a change range from it’s been two years since graduation and I now know what I want from a career to I’ve been doing this too long it’s time for a change. Those who have read […]
Conduct informational interviews. When you are undecided about what you want to do, initiate conversations with professionals in areas of interest to you. Get them to share their experience, ideas, information and advice that can be helpful to you. I’ve spent a good bit of time in airports and on planes recently. I’m a cocoon […]
Your resumé is the key to opening doors in your job search. Resumes, whether you choose paper, web-based or video format are a brief account of your personal, professional and educational experience intended for an employer’s human resources professional, recruiter and/or hiring-manager to help them discern if you are a qualified candidate for the open […]
The wait is over. You got a call from your soon-to-be manager or human resources and you got the job. Did you? No, you did not. It is not an offer until you receive letter, which serves as the legal basis of employment. A verbal offer is great—worthy of celebration, but the employer is not […]
Your first few years on the job will set the tone of your early career and can jump-start the next few decades of growth and achievement in the workplace. Here’s what it takes to make the most of your first job. Be a sponge. Take the time to learn everything you can about the company, […]
I’m not a planner. As much as I like to know what my day and week looks like, and I’m typically the one tapped to plan vacations with friends and family, I like “playing things by ear” and seeing how I feel in the moment. I like the surprise. I like sometimes not knowing what […]
Over the weekend this post, An Open Letter to My CEO went viral. The now former employee of Yelp/Eat24 Talia Jane wrote the letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman. In her letter she tells her story—a story that includes hunger pains and taking a handout from a CVS employee that overheard her conversation about not […]