Tips From a Recruiter: How to Manage Your Time and Meet Deadlines
Jun 28, 2024
Whether you are a student, intern, or even well into your first (or second) job, managing your time and meeting deadlines can be very challenging. At the same time, it's a skill you’ll need to master to achieve your professional goals and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
6 Things To Consider When Comparing Compensation Packages
Jun 28, 2024
You've nailed your interviews and accompanying assessments, and now have an offer letter from a great company in hand (or a few!). Congrats! From assessing a company’s available career growth opportunities to learning more about their company culture, there’s a lot that goes into choosing where you want to start your career as an entry-level employee. One of the biggest points of comparison is salary – but it’s not as simple as choosing the offer with the highest number. There are many non-base salary things that go into a compensation package that would actually make the value of one offer higher than the other. Before making a decision on your offer, consider some of these other factors when comparing the true value of the different offers you’re assessing.
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3 Questions to Ask in an Interview to Learn about a Company’s Culture
No matter where you start your career, your experience at a company will be influenced by that organization’s culture. Culture touches everything from a company’s values to its benefits to its broader sense of community, which means it’s essential to get to know the cornerstones of a company’s culture while in the interview process.
10 Career Ideas for Psychology Majors
If you have declared a major in psychology, you’re in good company. Every year, more than 100,000 students in the U.S. earn a bachelor’s degree in this field. While many psychology majors enroll in a master’s, doctoral, or medical program in order to become licensed social workers, psychologists, or psychiatrists, there are plenty of jobs in a variety of fields that would also be an excellent fit for a new graduate. Here are 10 of our favorite suggestions.
Tips to Ace Your Interview For an Entry-Level Sales Role
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.
Looking Ahead: How City Year Can Propel Your Career — Wherever You Hope to Go
It can be daunting to watch your graduation date inch closer and still be unsure about where you want to kick-start your career — especially if you haven’t yet nailed down an industry or role that you’re passionate about. But there are some opportunities that will allow you to build new skills and challenge yourself regardless of what you studied in school, and gain a meaningful experience along the way.
Why You Should Consider Relocating For Your First Job
Work location is a major factor for anyone undergoing a job search. New remote work policies may enable employees at some companies to live and work wherever they want, while on-site and hybrid work schedules at other employers offer valuable team-building and skill-building opportunities to take advantage of at a specific office location. Whether you are searching for a job that takes place remotely, on-site, or some combination of the two, there’s one thing all of these have in common—you will still need to decide where to live when you start working.
13 Companies With Unique Hybrid Internship Opportunities
There are benefits of working in the office and benefits of working at home. In an office setting, you can build relationships with coworkers over shared meals and breaks, have an easier time troubleshooting issues or asking questions to your supervisor without having to schedule a meeting or explain yourself over an email or messaging app, and can learn from others about professional behaviors in the workplace. At the same time, working from home gives you more control over your work schedule, allows you to cut down on commute time to and from the office, and enables you to work in clothing and a setting you feel most comfortable in.
15 Companies With Standout Diversity and Inclusion Efforts
Now more than ever, corporate leaders are taking a proactive stand in recognizing the importance of promoting diversity in the workplace and creating an inclusive work environment. Meanwhile, an increasing number of companies are putting in a lot of effort into being true champions of DE&I.
6 Things You Should Know About a Company Before Your Job Interview
Congrats – your application and cover letter stood out enough to get you the interview. On top of preparing the answers to these common interview questions and figuring out an outfit, it’s important to do your due diligence on the company you’re hoping gives you an offer. While you can’t predict every question that will come your way, there are some key things you should know about a company before interviewing with them. Not only will this inform your answers and help you ask more intelligent questions, it can reduce the chance that you’ll be blindsided if the interviewer asks you about their mission statement.
