Category Archives: Work Experience
If you’re serious about your career from the start, you have to launch from a position of strength. Getting serious work experience before you graduate is vital to your success equation. And not simply during summers.
So, You’ve Already Selected a Career, Huh?
And it doesn't require a college education?
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Periodically, students tell me, “Mark, I already know what I want to do for my career. I’m bored in college. All the English, history, math, and art appreciation courses aren’t of interest to me. I’d rather go to a school that teaches only what I want to learn.” I get it probably better than most. […]
Getting Paid for Your Internships
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Not long before I sold my agency and moved south, I paid a visit to the office of a Wall Street client. It was always fun meeting with him because he told fantastic personal stories—sometimes they were funny, sometimes jolting. They weren’t jolting like the “party stories” college students are famous for, but jolting in terms […]
What’s something interesting about your hometown? Are you immersed in a hobby? What makes you uniquely you? Most hiring managers want a factoid or two about your background and interests. Those make you an interesting candidate.
An Edge on Your Career
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Wouldn’t it be cool if it “just so happened” that hiring managers were your own close personal acquaintances? Acquaintances like that could be your shortcut to great mentoring, industry insight, interviews, and maybe even your first professional job. Well, hiring managers can be close personal acquaintances. But as with any personal relationship, they can’t be […]