• Mark Levit's Career Advice •Uncategorized Archives - • Mark Levit's Career Advice • https://www.professorlevit.com/category/uncategorized/ The course you weren't offered in college: how to get a job and advance your career Sat, 31 Aug 2024 17:54:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 58076289 Pity the Emerging Generation? https://www.marklevit.com/pity-the-emerging-generation/ https://www.marklevit.com/pity-the-emerging-generation/#respond Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:00:00 +0000 Mark Levit https://www.professorlevit.com/?p=1117 I often hear people around me talking about the doom young people face today. How can their formative years be meaningful with screens and devices replacing human interaction? Busy after extracurricular schedules? Missing two years of classroom experience due to Covid? Massive college debt? Unsuitable or no jobs available after graduation? Every generation experiences coming […]

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]]> https://www.marklevit.com/questions-are-often-the-answer/feed/ 0 983 What non-sales careers are best for college graduates? https://www.marklevit.com/what-non-sales-careers-are-best-suited-for-recent-college-graduates/ https://www.marklevit.com/what-non-sales-careers-are-best-suited-for-recent-college-graduates/#respond Thu, 06 Aug 2015 16:19:26 +0000 Mark Levit https://www.professorlevit.com/?p=78 Why look for a non-sales marketing/advertising job? If you’re studying marketing, you already know sales is integral to the marketing disciplines. In the event you’re not, you need a full and comprehensive understanding of sales is one of the most important skills anyone can have in business—and life! Nearly everything we do to achieve success at work, […]

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]]> https://www.marklevit.com/what-non-sales-careers-are-best-suited-for-recent-college-graduates/feed/ 0 78 Resume or LinkedIn? https://www.marklevit.com/resume-or-linkedin/ https://www.marklevit.com/resume-or-linkedin/#respond Thu, 30 Jul 2015 03:48:46 +0000 Mark Levit https://www.professorlevit.com/?p=66 Your resume and LinkedIn are both important—each for different reasons. It’s vital to remember, though, they must be consistent with each other. And that’s more difficult than it seems. Use LinkedIn for “inbound marketing.” That is, for hiring managers who are looking someplace else than the resumes an HR manager might have collected for her/him […]

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