How Long Do Your College Honors Matter?

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Author Byline: Jessica has a true passion for the job seeker, evidenced by her desire to share everything she can with everyone she can about resume writing and interviewing. Author Website: http://www.greatresumesfast.com Entry-level professionals often have a hard time trying [...] [...]

5 Great College Career Sites for Summer Interns

“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 interview [...] [...]

I Wish I May, I Wish I Might, Wish Upon a Job Tonight

“It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possible only in one way.” – Aristotle Every once and awhile I get an email from a college student who is attending (or recently graduated) from the college I attended. They are usually looking for career advice or a potential inside track to a [...] [...]

Spring Semester – College Job Search

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” – Robert H. Schuller Spring Semester? It’s January! Yeah, I know how the college semester [...] [...]

Check Your Job Search Attitude

“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln Author Byline: William Frierson is a staff writer for CollegeRecruiter.com. Author Website: http://www.collegerecruiter.com/ “I can’t find a job. I won’t find a job.” Have you ever said these phrases or heard other job [...] [...]

College Grad Job Search – Home for the Holidays – Vol 3

“Grandma got run over by a reindeer walking home from our house Christmas Eve. You can say there’s no such thing as Santa, but as for me and Grandpa, we believe.” – Cledus T. Judd The turkey leftovers are almost gone and you can hear those jingle bells in the background. Graduation is but a memory [...] [...]

College Grad Job Search – Are We There Yet? – Vol 2

“One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.” – Baltasar Gracian When I was growing up, my family did not go on any vacations that required an airplane. Typically, the four of us (Mom, Dad, Sister and me) would go on a vacation that meant we were getting into [...] [...]

Job Search – In Over Your Head?

” When I was a kid, we lived near a pond that had frogs. Every summer, I would go with my friends to collect tadpoles. Although we lived in the suburbs, this particular pond was somewhat polluted with various bits of junk floating (or permanently “moored” to the bottom). None of us knew exactly how deep [...] [...]

College Grad Job Search Resources – What You Think

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” – Robert McCloskey It doesn’t always have to be about me, sometimes it can be about you too. I get lots of emails suggesting links that many of you [...] [...]

College Job or Stepping Stone?

“A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can’t see it until after we have tripped over it.” – Cullen Hightower When we discuss the process of looking for your first job out of college, what we usually mean is looking for your first real job out of college. Most college grads have actually been [...] [...]