Below are the alarming statistics that InternMatch got from surveying 10,000 seniors: 82.0% of upcoming graduates have not secured a job for after graduation 81.9% of those who secured jobs completed at least 1 internship 54.9% of seniors have looked/been looking for a job for 3 months or more 43.9% of upcoming graduates are planning […]
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The ensuing months after the euphoria of college graduation can be quite sobering, especially for graduates on the lookout for a job that matches with their interests. When we’re in school, we’re led to believe that there are competitive industries out there that could use our newfound expertise, no matter what discipline we studied. It
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Though the situations seem a lot alike, having a roommate in a college dorm and living with someone in the real world can be two completely different situations. When you don’t have class all day, eat in a dining hall and have everything at your fingertips, apartment life can get a bit, well, annoying. I
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As I was walking the line at my high school graduation, I was ready to just keep on walking all the way to freshman year of college. I wanted nothing to do with my high school, my hometown, or even many of my high school acquaintances—I was done. Give me my diploma and get me
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Graduation is an exciting time for a college student. All the hard work you’ve put in over these last four years is finally going to pay off, and you’re finally going to start working that dream job. Everything you have planned for your future is about to come to fruition. Right? While graduation may be
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What do you do when you can’t find a job after college? Very few students graduate from college with a crystal clear vision of what their future will hold. The world is all before them, as Milton would have said, and as if the weight of choosing from an infinite number of career and life
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There are several things that you can do to make each interview as successful as it can possibly be. Each of these steps has an impact on helping you to get the kind of job you really want: Always be punctual. Allow yourself enough time to get there, taking the address and the traffic into
Bryan Cohen here, guest poster and author, promoting my new book The Post-College Guide to Happiness for The Happiness Blog Tour. “If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.” –
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Graduating from college, for me, and I suspect, for most students, is bittersweet. After four years knee-deep in academia, I was tired of the once exciting dorm parties, I was disillusioned by studying subjects that did not necessarily have any real-world application, and I felt anxious about setting out into the real world. Then, graduation
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Of course, there are many lessons in life that are learned outside of the classroom (in fact, some may argue that most are). However, there is no environment that teaches us more in a shorter amount of time than college life. Sure, our collegiate years teach us things like how to seduce the guy down
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