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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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What Defines Youth

RippleMatch

Mar 28, 2017

Everyone keeps telling us that we are so young. When they say that, I think about the First World War. At twenty-three, I would have been a well-seasoned soldier. Or, of course, a well-seasoned nurse, stenographer, fiancée. War crosses my mind in these moments not out of morbidity but in some attempt to contextualize that word: young. At twenty-three, I leave a plastic packet of rice boiling for too long while talking to a friend on the phone. The packet is charred and smoking. In some other slice of time and space, I could be a mother. There is no 10-minute, boil-in-bag option for trench warfare, or babies.

It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

RippleMatch

Mar 28, 2017

There comes a point in life when you realize: the government isn’t real. It’s a collective delusion. We have all agreed to respect it. Its enforcement may be real; it is not.

Looking for the Wreck

RippleMatch

Mar 15, 2017

I met Mona on the same day the plane crashed in Findlay, Ohio. Early Sunday morning, my editor called me to say that a small plane carrying two passengers had gone down, nobody had any details yet, and that I’d be going with Mona, a photographer, to find the wreck and cover the story.

College Relationships: A Romance That’s Extra Zesty

RippleMatch

Mar 09, 2017

First published on October 29, 2015 on Modern Love

The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture

RippleMatch

Mar 01, 2017

First published on February 26, 2015 on qz.com

Who You Lose on the Path to “Success”

RippleMatch

Mar 01, 2017

The summer before my junior year of high school, I flew across the Pacific Ocean and touched down on North American soil after a shaky landing at the Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier International Airport. I was fifteen years old, alone, and without a return ticket. The border control officer glanced at the birthdate on my passport and, brows furrowed, scrutinized me through the glass panel.

Turning Television off in Adulthood

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Mar 01, 2017

I have TV amnesia. I can’t tell you if Don Draper got married a third time or if Walter White walks among mortals. A few months upon viewing, I’ll have forgotten the most important broad strokes of a television plot. My friends marvel at this forgetfulness: but you’ve seen these shows! I have; this is true. But in many ways, I might as well have not.

The Value of Starting Again from Zero

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Mar 01, 2017

Gene taught himself computer science in his twenties, which, for some time, worked out splendidly. He spent three years in Sweden as a network administrator at a local university, making ends meet while enjoying life as a young expat. When he returned to Colorado, his home state, job offers abounded for anyone who dabbled in IT. This was the tail end of the dot-com boom in the late nineties: as Gene recalls, “say the letters HTML and you were hired.”

The Girl on the Boat, Or, Post-Graduation Travel Reflections

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Mar 01, 2017

The girl on the slow boat to Luang Prabang was trapped in the developing body of a young teen, her frizzy brown hair tied back in a messy ponytail. Her prepubescent breasts protruded from her thin t-shirt, braless, a sight parents in more puritanical countries would have kept well hidden. She was a moon-faced child, plump and jolly, squawking in French and staring back unabashed, exploding into sudden bursts of strident giggles. There is, my boyfriend and I whispered to each other, something off about her. (We had, naturally, started gossiping about the other passengers seconds after they stepped onboard).

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