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“It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.” – Aristotle You get a call from the HR department and learn you’ve finally landed the big interview. You’re well prepared. You’ve done online reputation repair and scrubbed YouTube of any embarrassing videos there might be of you. You’ve put together [...] If you are a college freshman, time is on your side. How, you may ask. Well for one, hopefully the job market will be better in four years. And for another, you have 4 years to do all of the things you really need to do to set yourself apart from your classmates and the [...] “It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” – Adlai Stevenson A former coworker called me a few months ago (having tracked me down after 20+ years) and wanted to meet for lunch to catchup. Her career over the last 20 years had started out quite good, [...] “One goes through school, college, medical school and one’s internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.” – Ashley Montagu I love internships. I’ve been an intern 5 times and now mentor a wonderful intern staff at my company, Come Recommended. Internships are extremely helpful for students and inexperienced professionals [...] Third Law of Applied Terror – “80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn’t read.” We started interviewing our college interns a few months ago at my company and this Summer’s “class” will join in a few short weeks. Having graduated in what [...] “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain Summer Interns in March? Yes, the summer intern [...] “Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he’ll have to touch it to be sure.” – Murphy’s Law Why is it that we always need to learn things the hard way? No matter how much advice we [...] “A good rule of thumb is if you’ve made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you’ve made a serious vocational error.” – Dennis Miller I started interviewing college students for my company’s summer intern program this past week. It’s interesting to compare their resumes, what they’ve done [...] |
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