Category: Job Searching
Can We Survive Being A Generation of Interns?
We aspired to be great people but wound up sweeping floors and serving coffee. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. From birth, we were told how our lives were supposed to play out. We would go to elementary school and learn to read, write and do arithmetic. We would then go to middle school [...]
4 Tips to Transition from College to Career
If you’re a senior in college or a recent graduate, you’re likely trying to figure out how to make a smooth transition from the world of textbooks and exams to the working world. It’s a challenging time, and it can be intimidating to be on your own and supporting yourself. However, this is also an [...]
The “Retailification” of Post-Grad Life
Most students get jobs to pay bills or to have beer money. Many choose to work in retail—an unforgiving field but one where jobs are easy get. Students, like any other group that’s unfortunate enough to work in retail, abhor the industry. Retail is awful. I worked in retail at times in my life. In [...]
Four Similarities Between Job Hunting And Looking For Love
This decade has the tendency to feel like you’re teetering in limbo, and part of this uncertainty is the job hunt (ugh) and the search for your other half (bigger ugh.) Objective: Find that one person who you actually want to be around everyday and a job that you don’t dread going to every morning [...]
The Post-Grad Burn Book: 10. Job Searching
For 20-something years our lives were structured around this little thing called school. We spent our weekdays in class surrounded by peers, our weeknights doing homework and going to practice (and drinking when we got older), and our weekends socializing. During Summer, holidays, and breaks, we had time off, but we always knew that in [...]