Starting Your First Job? Make an Impact in the First 30 Days
-Congratulations on your recent graduation and landing your first full time job! Goodbye college, hello professional world and performance reviews. New jobs can be overwhelming, and your first job may be the toughest because it’s all new territory. Surprisingly, a new survey found that 77% of businesses expect recent graduate hires to stay…
Attention Student Job Seekers: 6 Steps to Target Your Dream Company
-It’s that time of year. Graduations, caps & gowns, prominent speakers with words of wisdom to inspire newly minted grads as they enter the real world, such as “Go for your dream job!” What does a dream job look like to a recent college or MBA grad? How can a job seeker connect…
Pay It Forward to Job Seekers? Absolutely!
-Pay it forward. Random acts of kindness. Helping someone without the expectation of quid pro quo. What does this mean in the context of a job search? What should you do the next time a student from your alma mater or your friend’s brother’s college roommate emails you about a job opening at…
Tales From Two Entrepreneurs – Tips for Starting a Business
-We’ve both had many jobs over the years. Babysitter, lifeguard, aerobics teacher, investment banker, executive coach, career advisor —but none fully prepared us for the number of hats we needed to wear as tech entrepreneurs. Since starting Jobtreks, a digital platform for job search, we’ve worn so many hats that our next business…
6 Tough and Wacky Interview Questions (and How to Answer Them)
-So you’ve gotten past the application phase and have been invited for an interview. Give yourself a pat on the back! But it’s not time to relax quite yet — you’ve got to prep for your big meeting. If you’ve been through the interview process before, you probably have an idea of what…
