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Job Search Tips: Post-Grad Guide

March 14th, 2012
Five Important Job Hunting Tips

You have your diploma in hand, your things are boxed up and crammed into a U-Haul, and you’re ready to go out into the world. Only one problem – you don’t have a job yet.

While it would be ideal to graduate from college with an offer already lined up, the fact is that most people have a period of uncertainty and unemployment after they graduate. The important thing is not to fall into panicking or moping about it. Instead, pick yourself up, write a great resume, and then start your job hunt. Need help starting out? Check out this list of the top five pieces of advice for new graduates on the process of searching for a job.

Time to hang up that cap and get working!

1.      Utilize your college’s career center. If possible, check this one out while you’re still on campus, but keep it in mind » Read more: Job Search Tips: Post-Grad Guide

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Job Search Tips: Managing Job Search Pressure

March 1st, 2012

By Eugene Calvini

So you’re out on a job search, you have nothing lined up and you’ve no idea when unemployment is going to end. It’;s very easy in this situation to go to a very dark place and spiral into a vicious cycle of losing motivation to find a job where motivation is a key area potential employers look for when hiring. Let’s go over things to help cope with your career or job search.

Feeling Down is Natural

Realizing situational depression is normal and indeed expected will help you cope with it when it happens. Unless you have a history of clinical depression, then psychologists explain that it’s an expected space to be in when the job search endeavor is taking place with no projected sure outcome; don’t be surprised by your own depression, harness it » Read more: Job Search Tips: Managing Job Search Pressure

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Networking: Post-Grad Guide

February 28th, 2012

By Caitlin Sahm

Networking. Did reading that word strike fear into your heart? You’re not alone. Whether because of shyness, uncertainty, or a feeling that making contacts to advance a career is somehow “fake,” many recent graduates are afraid to use networking as job hunting tool.

Even if networking feels about as natural as breathing underwater, with many jobs advertised by word of mouth and positions filled before they’re ever posted, you can’t afford to cut it out of your job search. Fortunately, there are ways to make networking less awkward for even the most inexperienced of social strategists.

Networking should be supportive, not scary!

Change the way you think about networking. A lot of new graduates picture networking as a slick, corporate affair where you tolerate people you have no interest in because you’re hoping that they’ll be able to help you down the line. That’s not what » Read more: Networking: Post-Grad Guide

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