Internships are a must these days. Internships are becoming the best way to strengthen your job prospects. With statistics showing high rates ofunemployment and underemployment (in other words, you have a degree and you’re working in a job that doesn’t require one) for recent college grads, a key way to distinguish yourself in the job market, beyond pursuing an in-demand field is to get relevant experience. Interning is a great way to do this. 3 Steps to an Internship Game Plan I highly recommend the book, All Work, No Pay, to help you get an internship game plan, but here are
Informational interviews and job shadowing are great ways to be briefly exposed to a career field you are interested in by interacting with someone in the role. In the student career coaching we do, our package offers arrangement of at least one job shadowing opportunity. This is how valuable we feel this component to career exploration really is. The difference between the two is that an informational interview is just a conversation with the person in the job. It allows you to ask the person questions about how they got where they are, what the like (and don’t like) about
“Your daughter really stepped up to be a leader with all the kids today,” says one mother. “Really?” asks the other, “She wasn’t being bossy was she?” Why do we think as parents, and especially with girls, when our child steps up to take charge of a situation that they are being bossy? I heard a similar dialogue with a dear friend of mine, who is one of the best, if not the best mother I know. Her oldest daughter, who is a smart, caring and leaderful girl, stepped up to engage kids of all ages, who all really didn’t
Are you a leader that inadvertently tells people to talk all the time? Last week, we focused on how saying too much is like saying nothing at all when people talk too much and monopolize a meeting or conversation. As a leader, you may not be talking too much, but are you telling your people to talk too much because you give them all the attention? There is nothing inherently wrong with being extraverted and feeling comfortable vocalizing thoughts and opinions or being introverted and having less to say. However, it does become a problem when leaders neglect to give
Often students are afraid to ask, but when I talk to them about careers that match their talents, passions and values, I know they are wondering, well what on earth would I be doing in this job you’re describing to me? We miss the mark in exploring careers, oftentimes, because we assume that people know what they don’t know. Now what? Once you’ve made job matches and considered them through their demand in the marketplace, you have to actually learn about what you would do on a day-to-day basis in the jobs that seem like a fit for you. Your matches should lead