How to Create a Resume Ultimate Guide: From College to Career

Whether you’re looking for an internship, your first post-college job, or even a part-time summer position, you need a resume. This indispensable document isn’t just an accounting of your skills and abilities. It also helps a recruiter or hiring manager …

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Here’s How You Can Source College Talent While Carefully Avoiding Alumni Bias

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Unconscious bias can creep in on hiring processes no matter how self-aware and educated your hiring team is. Unfortunately, one bias feels more like a ‘resource’ for many employers – looking at their college for …

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15 Jobs of the Future (and the Skills You Need to Land Them Now)

Some people have known what they wanted to be when they grew up since they were nine years old. Other people get to their junior year of college and are still considering options. While there’s no one “right way” to …

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From Kids to Career: Jumping Back Into the Workforce after a Parental Break

From giggles and snuggles to messes and tantrums—being a stay-at-home parent is a non-stop job. Indeed, the job description would intimidate even the most impressive candidates: organizing schedules, coordinating appointments, planning activities and parties, cooking, cleaning, caring for sick kids, …

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The Best Career Advice Could Come From Your Parents

Whether fresh out of college or a longtime veteran of the workforce, career advice is always readily accepted. From Ted Talks to countless blogs, there is no lack of career advice to be found on the internet. The surprising thing, …

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Teaching College Students about the Internship Resume

When students come to the Career Center asking for help with an internship resume, you know you’re doing something right. Your reach should expand beyond just identifying the right major or starting the job search process. All those steps in …

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What is it like to work for the U.S. federal government as a student or recent grad?

The United States federal government is the world’s second-largest employer with 2.1 million civilian employees. For payroll and other human resource purposes, most fall under the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Working for the U.S. federal government, especially early in …

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Alternative Paths For Your Journalism Degree

In 1995, I sat in my Intro to Journalism class at Baruch College when my professor Bridgett Davis imparted some words of wisdom on us all. She informed us that there was little money to be made in journalism and …

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A Day in the Life : Assistant Wind Developer for an Independent Power Company (Energy)

8:00 AM: After waking up in the Holiday Inn in a remote part of Iowa, you get in your rented SUV and drive into town to have a breakfast meeting at the local diner with the mayor. Your development team …

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4 Simple Money Management Tips for Students

With inflation on the rise, the cost of basic necessities—from food and clothing to gas and electricity—is going up. This means that, in addition to pandemic stress, students now have to deal with an elevated cost of living. So, to …

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