'job' tagged blog posts in Advice for the New Careerist

I gained a reputation for being a tough interviewer at the bank where I worked. It was a slow evolution. I remember always being considered so nice. Oh, maybe that was high school.

My interviewing days stretched back to working as a financial analyst just out of college. After being at the firm for six months, I started...

My hair stylist is one of the smartest people I know. Carla Pressley works in a salon in the DC metropolitan area, where I was lucky enough to find her after calling the salon for an appointment four years ago.  Since then, Carla has begun to split her time between the salon and...

Considering the pressure put on students to obtain the perfect job after college, it’s surprising that the majority of them leave their work within the first two years. Today’s Generation Y professionals are not constrained by the job loyalty that their predecessors felt. Perhaps that’s why a recent

Last Friday, an enterprising 2008 Smith College alumna, Regina Chien, organized a group of 28 college students to visit  a few technology companies in New York City, including Google’s NYC headquarters, and her office at Silicon Valley Bank. Regina hoped to give these students a peak at different career options as well as to educate them on creating strategies now to...

You probably realized soon after you arrived at college that by the time you are a senior you better have a resume that grabs recruiters’ attention. The easiest way to do that is to win an Olympic medal in alpine skiing. Or…get a good summer internship.

Even if you need to earn money over the summer, try to squeeze...

In a recent YEC/Buzz Marketing study of young professionals, 79% of respondents were interested in entrepreneurship. Anyone, Generation Y or not, who read about Facebook’s suggested IPO market capitalization of up to $100 billion, garnering $28 billion of value for founder Mark Zuckerberg alone, could understandably...

The woman I interviewed had a gap in her resume. I couldn’t figure out what she did during that period.

“So how about this time frame?” I asked.

“Well…” she began, hesitatingly, “I did have a job at a pharmaceutical lab.”

Really? Why isn’t it on your resume?

Oh, I hate to talk about it....