Career Advice

  • NYC Summer Housing for Students and Interns

    NYC Summer Housing for Students and Interns

    Some of the colleges in the heart of New York City cannot guarantee housing for every admitted student, which causes tremendous stress to students and their families. If you are in this position, know someone looking for some sort of off-campus living, or need somewhere to stay over the summer while interning in NYC, keep… Read More

  • 8 Things Your College Career Center Can Do for You

    8 Things Your College Career Center Can Do for You

    If you go to college in the United States, then your school must have a Career Center staffed by professionals who are trained to help college students with career-related concerns. Most college students have had second thoughts about their chosen career path, or at some point been completely clueless about what they want to pursue… Read More

  • 6 Internship Tips for International Students

    6 Internship Tips for International Students

    As an international student, you may face a few obstacles when applying for internships. The U.S. government has special rules for international students who want to work here, and schools have their own rules as well. The application process is tedious, but the benefits you get from an internship definitely overweigh any obstacles you have… Read More

  • Real World Résumé Boosters: Skills That College Students Can Teach Themselves

    Real World Résumé Boosters: Skills That College Students Can Teach Themselves

    We all know that colleges don’t teach you everything about life. Many of the important, real-world skills that come with being an adult, such as buying a house or balancing a checkbook, aren’t taught in any sort of academic institution. There are many who believe that such skills as these can only be truly learned… Read More

  • 8 Internship and Volunteer Abroad Programs for Nursing Students

    8 Internship and Volunteer Abroad Programs for Nursing Students

    Nursing is a profession that best suits the most caring individuals, so it’s not a surprise that nursing students are actively volunteering their time and medical expertise abroad to those who need it the most. There are millions of people in underprivileged areas who receive their sole medical care through organizations with volunteer programs. If… Read More

  • Preparing Yourself for the Workforce

    Preparing Yourself for the Workforce

    Do you feel prepared for the workforce after graduation?  If your response is “Yes!”, you may be surprised to find out that the majority of employers have the opposite view. Just take a look at a 2016 survey by PayScale: 25% of recent grads consider themselves “extremely prepared” for a job, but only 8% of… Read More

  • Where to Look: The Best Websites for Finding the Perfect Internships

    Where to Look: The Best Websites for Finding the Perfect Internships

    The more our college years progress, the more we face the pressure of having to find a job after graduating. For many students nationwide, the first logical step is to find an internship in one of their fields of interest. Unfortunately, this isn’t always easy. Modern technology has made it so that applying for internships… Read More

  • The Millennial Rolodex: Networking Through LinkedIn

    The Millennial Rolodex: Networking Through LinkedIn

    Physical Rolodexes may have outlived their physical usefulness, but the concept behind them will never be obsolete. We millennials just have a slightly different tool for the exact same purpose. And it is LinkedIn. I speak from my own experience. LinkedIn was first described to me as “Facebook for people with jobs.” The comment was… Read More

  • The Interview: What to Say and What to Leave Out

    The Interview: What to Say and What to Leave Out

    Congratulations! You’ve been offered an interview. Whether it’s for a job in your field after graduation or an internship for the summer before your junior year, it’s a considerable step in the right direction. Being offered the interview feels great until the anxiety sets in. While there’s no reason to feel nervous, it’s important to… Read More

  • How to Make Job Offers Come Your Way

    How to Make Job Offers Come Your Way

    Sometimes the best way to find a job is by letting it come to you. The main idea is this: Do visible things that people in the community you want to enter will value, and involve them in that process. Done effectively, you do things you enjoy and employers who see you enjoying building value… Read More

  • Before Joining College Extracurriculars, Consider This

    Before Joining College Extracurriculars, Consider This

    The 21st century has, thus far, shown us a promisingly impactful decade and a half. We’ve completed the Human Genome project, successfully implanted an artificial heart, ditched Internet Explorer in favor of better alternatives (looking at you, Chrome), programmed cars to drive themselves, and miraculously boiled down the entirety of dating science to a left… Read More

  • How to Land Your Dream Internship (from the Other Side of the Career Center)

    How to Land Your Dream Internship (from the Other Side of the Career Center)

      Everyone has dreams, but not everyone has their dream internship. Is yours at a startup? The environment is relaxed. The dress code isn’t binding. Almost everyone is twenty-something– making them that much more relatable—and you work closely with your team to foster a tightly-bound network. Or, perhaps, your dream internship entails a Fortune 500 company.… Read More

  • 35 Phrases That Will Improve Your Resume

    35 Phrases That Will Improve Your Resume

    These phrases are sure to make you stand out from the rest! ➪ Make sure you include some of these phrases in your resume: COMMUNICATION ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS INTERPERSONAL SKILLS MANAGEMENT SKILLS RESEARCH AND PLANNING For more resume tips, check TUN’s interview with Katie Seitz, a career coach at Stony Brook University’s Career Center here, or… Read More

  • How to Thrive (Not Only Survive) at Work

    How to Thrive (Not Only Survive) at Work

    Whether you are interning for a semester or working part-time (or full-time), work can be… quite dreary (and mundane, for many). However, like with all things, it’s what you make of it. Change your attitude, and everything else will change!  Here are 7 things you need to do to thrive– not only survive– at your… Read More

  • 3 Things to Seriously Consider Before Accepting a Job Offer

    3 Things to Seriously Consider Before Accepting a Job Offer

    You are desperate for a job. You’ve applied to countless positions -— from internships to part times to full times that you aren’t actually interested in — but much to your disappointment, embarrassment, and frustration, you haven’t been hearing back. You begin to think that if there’s nothing wrong with your resume, then there’s something wrong… Read More

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