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Finding a Job 101: How to Identify Opportunities and Position Yourself Competitively in Your Search
Sep 16, 2024

You go to college hoping that by the time you graduate, you’ll know exactly what you want to do and your dream job will be waiting for you. Unfortunately, that’s not always how it works out. Maybe you’ve spent your college career acquiring specific skills and you know exactly what you want to do, but you’re having trouble getting responses from employers. Maybe you’re unsure exactly what you want to do after graduation, so your job search is stalled.

12 Strong Rotational Programs to Kickstart Your Career
Sep 06, 2024

Just because you’re nearing the end of your college career and the time has come for you to search for your first full-time job, it doesn’t mean you have to box yourself into one role for the next few years. In fact, there are paid programs out there that are designed to expose bright, young talent to different departments within a company and help them determine where they might thrive — otherwise known as rotational programs

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How Being a Woman in Gaming Shaped My Interest in a Tech Career
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Amber, 21, is a computer science major at Wellesley College and a summer 2018 intern at Qualtrics. She’s had an interest in technology since she was young, largely driven by her interest in gaming. Here, she explains how gaming drove her to start her career in tech, and what she’s learned along the way.
How I Balanced a Rewarding Biotech Internship and My Senior Year of College
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When I first started working at Roivant as a Development intern at the beginning of my last semester of college, I had no idea what to expect. I was told I’d be helping “cross-functionally” wherever people needed me. Between taking full-time classes, handling all my extracurricular activities, and trying to make the most out of my last semester at Duke University, I was worried I’d be overwhelmed by work or that I’d be given only small projects that would be of little value to the company. Fortunately, neither of these things happened, and I’ve learned so much from my few months here. My project leaders were flexible enough to accommodate my schedule as well as thoughtful enough to carefully pick my projects so that I’d get the most out of the 10-20 hours I could come into the office every week.
Why You Should Work For a Startup After College
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If you got a job offer from Google or Goldman, chances are that your career path and bank account are on a great trajectory. But maybe you're willing to bypass that six figure offer sitting in your inbox for a role where you realize your impact through tangible business results. Maybe you want to dive in headfirst at a smaller company in a role with bigger responsibilities. Or maybe you didn't end up getting the dream job from the large company you were hoping for in the first place. Either way, don't worry -- there are plenty of other ways to jumpstart your career.
5 Reasons Why Your First Job Should Be In Sales
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1) Everybody sells
Follow These Steps to Ace Your Behavioral Interview
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How to Research a Company Before Your Interview
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Before any interview, you should always do your homework on the company and the position you’re interviewing for. Even if it’s just a phone screen, recruiters will expect that you have done your basic homework. Here are the top 5 things you should do before going into your next interview.
Five books that Should Accompany your Diploma
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Maybe the library at 2am is just starting to feel like home, and maybe you finally feel comfortable and accomplished in your academic pursuits; but as the bitterly-named “best four years of your life” threaten to coat themselves with the impenetrable sheen of nostalgia, you are forced to consider, “what’s next?” Imminent graduation and those months of limbo that follow it bring new challenges of friendship, love, and existential dread that define the end of adolescence, but these authors weave philosophy and masterful storytelling to show us that even the best minds don’t have to have all the answers and that the anxious struggle against the unknown future is not degrading, it is literary.
The Secret to Acing a Job Application
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Although the years of college applications are long gone, you may still come across occasions where a job, a contest, or a fellowship opportunity sits you down in front of a blank document, with five or seven hundred words to put yourself on paper, and try to get yourself what you want.
The Secret Answers for Getting into Private Equity
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