The Senior Series

20 Resume Tips from a Hiring Manager

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I’m a hiring manager. During the last seven years I’ve reviewed an estimated five thousand to ten thousand resumes while hiring or promoting fifty people for three different companies. I’ve hired sales people, tech experts, managers, marketing people and editors. While my experience may not be as extensive as some long time HR professionals, odds [...]

March 29, 2010 22 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

The Senior Series: Wrestling With Discouragement

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There are a lot of articles floating around arguing that Gen-Y is emotionally resilient. Despite the worst job market of our lifetimes, we are optimistic and upbeat about our economic futures. Some college seniors are looking forward to “funemployment” this summer. Others have found the perfect excuse to extend their college experience for a few [...]

March 25, 2010 1 comment CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

3 Job Search Mistakes Most People are Making

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I’ve received lots of great emails from college seniors and recent grads this week.  These emails make me even more excited about the Job Search Boot Camp Guide coming out next month!  Many of you are making 3 serious job search mistakes.  We need to clear these up if you want to get a job. [...]

March 24, 2010 24 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Annoucing Ms. Career Girl’s Job Search Boot Camp!

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You may have noticed that I have something exciting cooking. I’m writing a pretty cool job search guide for college seniors and recent graduates.  It all started because of your emails and tweets. Many of you share the same fears.  Many of you make the same mistakes when it comes to executing your job search.  These [...]

March 9, 2010 5 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

The Senior Series: Should Seniors Skip Spring Break this Year?

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At the end of my summer internship two years ago, my boss offered a single piece of advice for the remainder of my college career: take an awesome senior-year spring break. Why? He said that once I graduated into the “career world” it would become nearly impossible to ever find one week during which all [...]

March 4, 2010 7 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

The Senior Series: Ready, Aim, Fire.

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The college seniors I’ve talked to lately all have one common question/concern that goes something like this: This ridiculously Type A person I know at school said she has already applied to 37 jobs!  Am I behind because I haven’t done that yet? She has everything organized into a spreadsheet and is STILL applying…should I [...]

February 25, 2010 8 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Maximizing Crunch Time: Five Tips for those about to Graduate

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The following is a guest post by Matt Cheuvront. Matt is an Internet Marketing Developer/Designer and master of ceremonies over at Life Without Pants. Follow him on Twitter to keep in touch! You’re about to enter into the “real world”. Pretty scary stuff, I know. So far you’ve had it all planned out for you [...]

February 23, 2010 22 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

The Senior Series: Interviews. Out of Town and Out of Pocket.

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Today’s Senior Series post was written Rob Pitingolo, one of the 5 amazing college seniors picked to be mentored and prepped by me for their first job and life after college. Around this time last year, my peers often reminded me how lucky I was not to be graduating into a harsh employment environment with [...]

February 18, 2010 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

What and When is #JobHuntChat?

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What #JobHuntChat is Twitter’s best (and possibly only) chat dedicated to answering job seekers’ real questions. The chat questions are submitted by YOU, not made up.  Your questions will be answered during #JobHuntChat by other job seekers, bloggers, resume writers, career experts, HR professionals, recruiters, and maybe even (according to Rich) @ShitMyDadSays.  We will be tweeting out the questions, and RT’ing the responses that [...]

February 12, 2010 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

The Senior Series: Do I Need a Blog?

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Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with my sister, Ashley, who is a college senior graduating in May.  My sister is part of Mizzou’s top-tier journalism school in a convergence program that combines several types of journalism and new media.  One of her classes this semester requires her to have a blog.  She wasn’t thrilled [...]

February 11, 2010 16 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →