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Diversity Career Resources: African American

This week I’m introducing you to a couple websites that focus on African Americans and careers. The first one, The Black Collegian, provides information on career resources for black college students. Job search strategies, graduate school opportunities, career and industry reports are abundantly explored. This site is the cyberspace partner of The Black Collegian magazine, [...]

Career Development 101: How to Figure Out What to do With Your Life

This post is for anyone struggling to find a job or figure out what to do with their lives, but mostly for any of our high school readers or soon to be college students. By understanding how career development works now, it will be much easier for you to take advantages of opportunities in college [...]

Using the Internet to Find the Perfect Job

In my last piece I discussed online job applications but I’d like to take a step back for a bit. I am always amazed when I ask people where they found or came across a particular job posting.    Hopefully, by now you have some sense of the type of career you’d like to pursue and [...]

Finish the Back to School LinkedIn Challenge

If you started four weeks ago with the first phase of the Back-to-School LinkedIn Challenge, you should now have a rather stellar LinkedIn profile. Now it is time to start getting more out of LinkedIn. (1) Research companies. In addition to an overview of the company, LinkedIn provides “Key Statistics” about companies such as headquarters, [...]

Social Media: Will it help you sink or swim in your job search?

I know that many, if not all of us, use or have used social media for fun. It’s a part of our daily routine – sitting in front of the computer, checking Facebook status updates and friend requests, keeping track of new followers on Twitter.  As it turns out, though, social media is now being [...]

Diversity Career Resources: Part 1

How do you identify yourself? Personal Branding is all about showcasing yourself and marketing your unique characteristics, interests, and skills. The way you identify yourself (woman/man, African American, LGBTQ, etc.) is protected information and employers cannot refuse to hire based upon these personal identities. There has also been research that states a person’s acceptance of [...]

Be Creative: Using a Visual Resume

You may have spent hours editing your paper resume, trying to polish the short job summaries, thinking about which action verb best describes your accomplishments and the skills you acquired. Your resume may be very good and representative of what you could bring to a company. It may even be outstanding. Yet chances are that [...]

Don’t be Steven Slater: Quit Your Job Professionally

If you’ve been watching the news lately, then you know who Steven Slater is. He’s the Jet Blue flight attendant who quit his job in a very unorthodox manner and is now facing felony charges. CLICK HERE for a video with CNN reporters interviewing one of the passengers on the plane who witnessed the occurrence. [...]

Maximize your Internship Opportunity: The Last Chapter

The Last Chapter: What will be your lasting impression? Excited to go back to school in a few weeks? Although you might have dorm decorations and buying books on your mind, don’t forget these last few items that you won’t find on your back-to-school packing list. Your internship might be coming to a close, but [...]

What Everybody Ought to Know About Online Applications

It’s crazy to think that when I started working for Hyatt, back in 2000, candidates visited the hotel property’s HR office and completed paper applications. Wow how things have changed in such a relatively short amount of time! Now, almost all companies, including Hyatt, only accept applications online. To some, filling out online applications and [...]

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