It’s finally happened, you finished your degree and graduated college. The first hurdle has been overcome and it’s time to start the next leg of the journey: finding a job. Finding a job in a career that synchronizes with your degree may not be easy even with relevant work experience. Resumes need to hold important work and education experience as well as strong achievements.
Writing a resume gives you the opportunity to have a great place to brag about accomplishments—it is not a place to be humble. Inflating accomplishments can illicit adverse effects too, so it’s important to be honest about your capabilities and the results that have come from those capabilities thus far. Here are some tips to getting a strong resume to send out to future employers
“I only have a month left before I graduate and I have no plans for the next step in my life. No job lined up and no idea how to move forward.”
Sadly this sentiment is felt by many college students about to graduate. Graduation is a scary step into the adult world. Gone are the days of financial aid supplementing income and gone are the days of having a …
Ivan Pavlov famously showed that associating the sound of a bell with the smell of food could cause a dog to become hungry just by hearing the bell. He died in 1936, nearly 40 years before the invention of the cell phone, but had he lived to see its invention, he likely wouldn’t have had to use dogs to test his theories in classical conditioning. For generation Y (born between …
Those tasked with giving motivational speeches almost inevitably include a variation of the phrase: “Love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life.” While this is an oversimplification, new research is beginning to outline how important enjoying what you do, and taking breaks while you do it, actually is.
Unsurprisingly, employees who enjoy their jobs are more productive, in better health, and more loyal than those who …
