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 […]
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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
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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
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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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Keeping up with your social life was simple in college. There were plenty of free university-sponsored events and concerts, student discounts at the movies, restaurant happy hours for students and house parties galore. Maintaining a post-college social life becomes a little more complicated and not to mention, pricey. Here are a few tips to help
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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
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According to the Harvard Business Review, there are six elements to winning corporate cultures: vision, values, practices, people, narrative and place. Each of these are great, but they don’t all need to be present to make a company’s culture amazing. In fact, great corporate culture is subjective and depends on what the employee prefers. Corporate
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You’ve worked hard through college. You’ve grown to love the community, the teachers and the setting. Now that you are moving toward a professional career, you can’t help but wonder what steps you can take to help give back to your school. As a college graduate, it’s important to realize there are plenty of small
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When we imagine our ideal life partner, most of us envision someone who wants to share our life journey, believes in us and supports our goals. People who thrive in life are able to be their best in a relationship, giving their partner the same support in return. But two people don’t always want the
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