Archive for category college graduate

What’s Your Resume Objective?

Teena Rose is a columnist, public speaker, and certified/published resume writer with Resume to Referral. She’s authored several books, including “Designing a Cover Letter to ‘Wow’ Hiring Personnel … includes 100+ cover letter examples” and “Cracking the Code to Pharmaceutical Sales.” Many college career offices and some resume books are emphatic that it is vital [...]

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Choosing a Career Path

Teena Rose is a columnist, public speaker, and certified/published resume writer with Resume to Referral. She’s authored several books, including “Designing a Cover Letter to ‘Wow’ Hiring Personnel … includes 100+ cover letter examples” and “Cracking the Code to Pharmaceutical Sales.” From the time children are old enough to talk, grown-ups persist in asking the [...]

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Selling Air: Marketing Your Entry-level Career

Teena Rose is a columnist, public speaker, and certified/published resume writer with Resume to Referral. She’s authored several books, including “Designing a Cover Letter to ‘Wow’ Hiring Personnel … includes 100+ cover letter examples” and “Cracking the Code to Pharmaceutical Sales.” Everything has a market. If you could go back in time thirty years and [...]

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Leverage Your Job-Search for Graduation

Guest article by Career Alley Back to school and focusing on your final semester before graduation? Not only is this the final approach to your college degree, but you should also be putting the final touches on your job search following graduation. Back in December (Recent Grads – Taking Aim for Targeted Job Search) I [...]

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Colleges Offering OpenCourseWare

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Gaining Work Experience When You’re New

In the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, the protagonist had a problem regarding his duties – which consisted of flying dangerous combat missions: “If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.” Anyone who has recently earned a college degree, but [...]

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Take The Job – Or Finish Your Degree?

Internships are not just for med students. For those in many fields, they are part of training and education – a “get your feet wet” period, let’s say. In this sense, they are similar to the old-time apprenticeship. A Bit of History For those who don’t know their history, apprenticeship is how job and career [...]

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