It’s a question that many people find themselves dealing with, and the answer all depends on when you realized it. If you were lucky enough to figure it out in the first year of university, you’ll have a different path than someone who doesn’t figure it out until their second year on the job. No …
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Graduation from high school or college is a joyous time of culmination and celebration for most students and their families. Nervous energy permeates campuses across the country as young men and women rush to complete their senior projects and pull all-nighters in order to ace their final exams. Emotions run high as nervous seniors count …
Classes are over, and you and your friends are preparing to decide what to do next. Like many graduates, you have probably started job hunting and are torn between pursuing jobs in new cities, staying put in your college town, or even moving back home with Mom and Dad. With a freshly minted résumé, several …
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You just graduated from university, and now you are looking for your first job. How do you show a recruiter that you have the skills it takes to do the job if you have virtually no work experience? Of course, you can use your education section to demonstrate your skills and knowledge, but what about …
In some ways, graduating from college can feel like starting your life over again. New places, new people, new things to worry about… so how do you keep everything on track? We all have grandiose ideals of what we want our futures to look like, but graduation is a great time to set some realistic …
Life after college can be a strange, confusing and traumatic wilderness for a lot of graduates to adapt to; when do you have to wake up? Is 4 AM still a good bedtime? Do you have to be an adult and do boring adult things? All of these questions and more are enough to make …
It is a common commencement joke to congratulate graduates on their transition from student to unemployed. Education is something greater than trumped up vocational training. It teaches you how to do things and lets you explore your passions. These are the things that you are bringing to the job front. Keeping your talent, tenacity and …
You just got your degree, so you’re ready to face the real world. Instead of facing the competition on the market as a recent graduate who’s hunting for their first job, you decide to do things differently: start your own business and face an even greater competition. If your first attempt to start a business …
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In many interviews, just when everything seems to be going well, we are suddenly asked where we see ourselves in five years. While many of us imagine that we might be CEO and driving luxury cars, that is not what the interviewer wants to hear. Neither is an interviewer interested in knowing about our personal …
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Recent graduates are facing steep competition in the job market, many of whom are resorting to lower paying jobs while drowning in student loan debt and falling into the skills gap. Welcome to world of underemployment, where highly skilled individuals are working low paying jobs that require lower skills. Unfortunately, this trend is on the …
