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Zoom Interview Prep: Advice from a Hiring Manager

Expert Advice, Expert Advice: Interview

Zoom Interview Prep: Advice from a Hiring Manager By Erica Devaney February 26, 2021 A job interview can be a scary and stressful experience — but it doesn't have to be. In order to understand how to tilt the scales in your favor, especially as so many interviews move...

Career Development

Internship

Interview

4 New-School Tips for Finding a Career Mentor

Finding a mentor is way easier than we make it out to be. Here are a career expert's unexpected tips. By Maggie Seaver August 25, 2020 Most people owe at least some of their career success to a mentor (or a few mentors). A mentor can be anyone with valuable expertise...

Top 7 Things You Should Look for In an Internship

An internship is an amazing opportunity to gain on-the-job skills and experience while you’re still in college, and may even allow you to transition into a full-time job upon graduation. But with the array of internship opportunities available – some paid and some unpaid – how do you choose the perfect opportunity for you? The […]

Starting a Summer Internship? Here’s Advice You Haven’t Heard Before

By Lindsey Pollak Show up on time. Ask smart questions. Have a can-do attitude. All good internship advice that you’ve likely heard before. There’s no question that summer internships can be the gateway to future employment: a new survey from Looksharp confirms that internships increase your chances of early career success. And, since demand for […]

Zoom Interview Prep: Advice from a Hiring Manager

Zoom Interview Prep: Advice from a Hiring Manager By Erica Devaney February 26, 2021 A job interview can be a scary and stressful experience — but it doesn't have to be. In order to understand how to tilt the scales in your favor, especially as so many interviews move...

7 habits that will kill your next job interview

By Dana Manciagli So many of my clients and readers say, “I aced the interview, but I don’t know why I didn’t get a call for the next round.” Well, I guess you didn’t ace the interview, did you? Sometimes you do well but they go with another candidate for a variety of other reasons. […]

Networking

Resume

Pro Tips for Networking Remotely Right Now

Don't let the pandemic stop you from making meaningful connections. By Maggie Seaver September 02, 2020 Here’s something you may not have realized: Right now is actually a good time to network. If the idea of forging genuine professional connections in the middle of a...

How to Make a Resume: A Recruiter Explains

Kat Everett, a corporate recruiter, guides us through how to make a resume stand out for good reasons in her recent article for The Best Schools “How to Make a Resume: A Recruiter Explains”. Recruiters often do not have 20+ minutes to spend reviewing each resume, so...

Four Things That Can Send Your Resume into the Trash

You may be the perfect fit for a job -- but a hiring manager is never going to find that out if he trashes your resume after a mere glance that reveals some common resume mistakes. Even in this age of online professional networking, a great resume is still the...

Belmont University – Jack C. Massey College of Business

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