Career Advice

If you want to optimize your chances of getting a great job or internship, it’s time to invest some time in your LinkedIn profile. Filling out the basic information on your profile is just the start – to stand out to employers and recruiters, you need to go the extra mile. Current university recruiter Daniel Shoch shares the best practices of filling out the different sections on LinkedIn to get your profile noticed by both recruiters and hiring managers.

If you’ve never taken an Econ or business class, would you ever think you could one day successfully run a business? For many liberal arts and STEM majors the answer is, unfortunately, no. Careers in management, leadership, or operations are often thought to require specific training, but in reality, students from all majors and backgrounds can grow into successful managers and executives.

When researching a job opening, your focus is often on the responsibilities of the job, the location, and how much it pays. While the what and where of a job is important, it’s also important to discover what makes up the company’s culture as you move through the interview process.

Considering a career in software engineering? Whether you’ve already declared a major in Computer Science or just started learning how to code on your own, there are some key things to know before pursuing a career in software engineering. To help you through the journey, we’ve compiled a guide to the most frequently asked questions about starting your career as a software engineer, covering everything from degree requirements to top skills to salary expectations.

A typical recruiter will spend an average of six seconds looking at your resume before deciding to move you to the next stage of a job application or send your resume to the reject pile. Sometimes it’s not even a recruiter that’s looking at your resume – applicant tracking system (ATS) screen resumes based on keywords or phrases. It can be tough to make your resume stand out to a recruiter or an ATS, but there are specific things you can do to make sure your resume has the best chance to move through the screening process. Here are eight best practices that will give your resume a competitive edge in the recruitment process.

There’s a lot of confusion surrounding early-career sales roles. Are you constantly cold-calling customers using the same script? Do you contact as many people as possible to sell your product, regardless of whether they’re the right customer profile? While entry-level and early-career sales roles do involve constant outreach, sales is much more challenging and rewarding than portrayals in pop culture make it out to be. So what does starting your career in sales really look like?

To succeed in sales, you need to be articulate, competitive, ambitious, empathetic, possess a strong work ethic and have strong writing skills. Most of those skills and attributes will be evaluated during an interview, so acing your sales interview is a make-or-break point in your hiring process. Aside from the usual things you should do before and during an interview (like reading the job description and researching the role beforehand) there are some specific things you can do to increase your chances of your interview resulting in an offer.

You’ve made it through the countless resume edits, cover letter rewrites, and multiple interviews. Now you have the ultimate reward for your efforts: a job offer. First off, congrats! But of course, it’s not over yet. Along with a verbal offer, you also will receive an official offer letter, and like any sort of contract you’ll want to read it over carefully… and then read it over a few more times. Signing this document means you’re agreeing to important terms of your employment (think salary, benefits, etc.) and you’ll want to know exactly what they’re proposing. The problem is, these letters can be filled with a lot of job offer jargon that might throw you off, so here’s a definitive rundown of common terms you could encounter.

Construction has long been an extremely male-dominated field – in the U.S., women make up about 9 percent of the construction industry. For college women majoring in engineering, architecture, or development, the lack of gender equality in this industry can be disheartening. However, the industry is changing to be more welcoming to women, and major players in the construction industry are working to level the playing field and improve the gender balance.