The first few years as a professional are confusing, fast-paced and certainly a time for self-discovery. It’s a chapter in your life when you’re figuring out how your strengths and passions align while questioning if there is an opportunity to monetize them. Visualizing how it will all play out can be difficult when you aren’t … Continue reading “First Jobs are for Learning: 3 Things to Keep in Mind at the Beginning of Your Career”
First Jobs are for Learning: 3 Things to Keep in Mind at the Beginning of Your Career
Categories: New Grads
5 New Skills New Grads Need to Kickstart Their Career
Congratulations! You’ve made it through college, and you have a degree to prove it. Now, all you need to do is apply for your dream job and wait for an offer, right? Sadly, no. It is more involved than that. Undoubtedly, college life was demanding and taught you a great deal. Despite this, there is … Continue reading “5 New Skills New Grads Need to Kickstart Their Career”
Categories: New Grads
7 Skills to Put On Your Resume When Looking for Your First Job
Creating a resume for your first job can be a daunting task. With minimal or no exposure to the corporate world, it could be challenging to create a resume that checks all the right boxes and stands out of the crowd. While most of the resume has the usual suspects – candidates details, education qualifications, … Continue reading “7 Skills to Put On Your Resume When Looking for Your First Job”
Categories: New Grads, Resume Tips
Turning Your ‘Wrong’ Academic Background Into the Career That’s Right for You
Graduation was fast looming. Although I was thrilled to put my academic life behind and finally enter the real world, I became anxious when I looked at my batch mates and realised the strong technical qualifications engineering, accounting, and IT students had. As a liberal arts major with a dual degree in Anthropology and Philosophy, … Continue reading “Turning Your ‘Wrong’ Academic Background Into the Career That’s Right for You”
Categories: New Grads
The College Grads’ Guide to Working with their 1st Manager
Making the leap from student to professional can be one of the biggest leaps you will make as a young professional and in your early-adult life. The differences between student life and professional life are substantial -the expectations are different, the schedule is different and the way you work is different because you’re being paid … Continue reading “The College Grads’ Guide to Working with their 1st Manager”
Categories: CAREER ADVICE, New Grads
5 Job Interview Questions and Answers for New Graduates
After graduation, when you get your diploma and become an adult who needs to support himself, it’s known that you have to prepare for the job hunt. Only the thought of going to your first job interview turns into the scariest nightmare. No one said that entering adulthood would be easy. Having a full-time job, … Continue reading “5 Job Interview Questions and Answers for New Graduates”
Categories: Job Interviews, New Grads
How to Get Yourself Ready for Graduation?
It’s been a long haul, but you can see the end of this phase of your academic journey; the light at the end of the tunnel is beginning to come into focus. It’s essential that you not wait until you are bathing in the celebration lights to prepare for your post graduation challenges. By then … Continue reading “How to Get Yourself Ready for Graduation?”
Categories: New Grads
How to Start a Career: The Most Crucial Tips for Recent Graduates
When you were at college, you had great dreams about your future. It was going to be special. You were going to do great things. You were just waiting for that degree, and you were working hard to reach that goal. Now what? If you’re like most college graduates, you’ll feel the harsh hit of … Continue reading “How to Start a Career: The Most Crucial Tips for Recent Graduates”