Imagine that you just had an interview for your dream job. The position is a perfect fit, you like the work environment, and you feel that you nailed the interview. What is the next step? What can you do to make sure that the interviewers do not forget about you? Conversely, how do you check […]
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Online Job Searching Tools
My friend Dayna (not her real name), was just called in for an interview at a highly desirable company just three weeks after she applied online. Online job applications usually have a low success rates and very slow turnaround times (if any), so what was Dayna’s secret? Dayna had been job searching for months both […]
Boost Your Faculty Job Search
I know that career planning is on many students’ minds, even if graduation is still a few years way. So, I will alternate blogs about careers with blogs about graduate student lifestyle. This way, you can look forward to blogs about jobs every two weeks, and the other weeks I will give you lifestyle tips […]
Mastering LinkedIn for Job Searching and More!
It seems like these days when you ask someone for suggestions on online job-searching tools, they give you a long list, and at the end, they say, “and of course, Linked In.” LinkedIn started out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in the fall of 2002, but just a few years later almost […]