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The College Admissions Scandal: Inequality in Higher Ed Goes Beyond Admissions
Our current culture often sends the message that only a few select schools lead to success. This idea that your worth as a person is tied to the college that you attend is running rampant. The rich and the not so rich, often go to extremes to gain any possible advantage in college admissions.
4 Things to Do Three Months Before College Graduation
It's February. Three months before the members of the graduating class triumphantly enter the ranks of the "real-world." Across the U.S. college seniors are experiencing mixed emotions ranging from excitement to anxiety, from stress to fear. Job, new apartment,...
Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s Entrepreneurship Competition
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s (TMCF) Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Program has teamed up with Ally Financial and the Sean Anderson Foundation to find the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds among publicly-supported Historically Black Colleges...
Discover Paid Diversity Internship Programs
Paid diversity internship recruitment programs are out there ready to help you reach your internship and career goals.
Don’t Be Overwhelmed, Simplfy Your Internship Search
In the midst of midterms, clubs and organizations, projects, sports, upcoming breaks and oh yeah--class, even the thought of looking for an internship can be overwhelming. I'm going to help you simplify your internship search. I definately understand that you have a...
Missing the Career Fair Could Mean Missed Opportunity
I’ve been on both sides of the table as a student and company representative at hundreds of college, internship and career fairs. I want to let you know, missing the career fair could mean a missed opportunity for making connections, networking and information...
Let’s Get it Started: Your Fall Internship Search
Every internship doesn’t have to be done for course credit, but if you can get credit, it is an absolute win-win. If you can get an internship, academic credit and get paid, that it is a win-win-win.
End Your Summer Internship With a Bang
Don't just show up for the last day cake and cookies, end your summer internship with a bang. No matter if you are going out to join the working world, or back to school, ending your internship strongly can help you land more internships or a job when you graduate....
National Intern Day
Happy National Intern Day! What is National Intern Day? National Intern Day is the first celebration of its kind, a day designed to highlight the awesome things that interns like you do every day. “Internships are a critical step on the path to landing a job after...
Jump Into Your Internship and Make the Right Impression
Making the right impression at an internship is super important. The wrong impression could seal your fate and future hopes of a job offer from that company. Even if you don't think you want to work there after you graduate, you want to impress the right people so you...
Why Recent College Grads Should Consider Post Grad Internships
There are a number of reasons why recent college grads should consider post grad internships. In a perfect world, you bang out your final exams, graduate, maybe move to a new city, set up your new apartment and start your career at a well-paying job the week after graduation. Well, that idea has been thrown out the window – thanks COVID!
I Can’t Find a Qualified Intern
You've posted your add and now you are anxiously waiting for the resumes to roll in. Problem is, you can't seem to find a qualifed intern. The resumes you have receieved don't line up with the position description or, you aren't getting any resumes at all. What's the...
March Madness Internship Style
March Madness is here. The University of Maryland Baltimore County and University at Buffalo have busted everyone's brackets, but I'm not talking about the frenzy, excitement and chase for the NCAA Championship. I'm talking about the frenzied, worried and anxious...
Phone Interview Success in Five Steps
Phone interviews. You can have phone interview success in five simple steps. I've been interviewed via phone and I've done probably 1,000+ phone interviews of candidates for internships and jobs. For many candidates, the road to employment starts with a phone...
3 Things That Internship Hiring Managers Love
Happy Valentine's Day! In celebration of the day of love, I am going to share 3 things that internship hiring managers love. If you are looking for an internship, here are a few things that might just make a prospective employer fall in love with you. Whenever a...
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