All posts tagged internships

What Would You Do With A Paid One-Year Vacation?

When I finished high school, I didn’t take a break. I dove right in full time, taking two classes in the summer and five each spring and fall semester. I finished my A.A. in General Education in a year and a half and rolled right into my Bachelor’s in Information Technology the following semester. By […]

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Who’s More Career-Minded: College Students or High Schoolers?

When building up to your career there are things that you must do to work your way up, such as community involvement, acquiring internships, and creating a network of people to help support you in your career pursuits. Things that many college students don’t actively do, instead only focusing their efforts on studying and making […]

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If Nothing Else, Just Keep Pushing Forward

For many students nowadays, it takes longer to graduate. Whether it’s a change of schools or a change of major, such decisions add on to the number extra courses you must take to graduate, as well as the expenses you accrue over the years. It may be better to just drop out, but if you’re […]

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What Should You Do Over the Break?

Fall semester is over and it’s nearing the next one. You’ve spent time with family and had some time to relax, but now you need to get back to work. “But next semester isn’t for a couple more weeks!” you say. That’s perfect. That should leave you with plenty of time. As competitive as the […]

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Using College as a Bridge to Your Career

The chasm between college and the workforce is a mighty big one. It’s something that our education system has failed to correct and many students arrive at this gap totally unaware. A bridge must be built to get to the other side, which may surprise many since no one had been told through grade school […]

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Next Step After College: Move Back in With Your Parents

This is how it normally ends. You get your four-year degree, you start searching around for a full-time job with a debt hanging over your head that reaches up into the tens of thousands, and you turn up with nothing. Now you must move in with your parents and get a minimum wage, part-time job […]

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Why Internships Are Vital to Your Career

So you’re looking through the course list for your major and you get down to the bottom and see “Internship” on the list. You glance across from it and see that it’s only worth one credit and you ask yourself, “why would I waste my entire semester on that?” Little do you know that that […]

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The Importance of Networking

It’s kinda hard getting started in your career when all you do every day is wait tables and do school work. Before you can land yourself in the job you want, you must put yourself out on the market- the job market, that it. The way to do that is to make contacts. Twenty people […]

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Should You Rely on Your Campus’ Career Services?

Many colleges provide career service resources to help students with obtaining internships, getting into a co-op agreement (basically paid internship), or even nabbing their first job. Unfortunately, some colleges or universities do a better job at helping students out with this than others. For instance, my experience with career services involved me wandering around campus […]

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