Main Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Landing a Job at Graduation
Special Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Career and Job-Fair Success
Quintessential Site: Featured Career Web Site of this Issue
Latest Additions: What's New on Quintessential Careers
Q TIPS: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
Editor's Note: About this Issue...
It's just about college-graduation time, and this year's grads can look forward to the best entry-level job market since 2007.
This issue features two entries from our 15th anniversary 15 Quick Tips series
-- one is on landing a job by graduation time; the other is about career and job fairs, which often target students
but can be aimed at other job-seekers as well.
--Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., Master Resume Writer, Credentialed Career Master,
Certified Electronic Career Coach, and editor at
kathy(at)quintcareers.com
Feature Article: Landing Job at Graduation Tips
15 Quick Tips for Landing a Job at Graduation
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
As part of the celebration of Quintessential Careers's 15 anniversary, we're presenting lists of 15 tips on some
of the most essential topics in college, job search, and career.
Yes, college is stressful. And yes, you should also be able to enjoy your last year in college. But wouldn't landing
a job by the time you graduate validate all your hard work? As you'll see with our 15 tips, the keys to success involve
knowing who you are and what you want -- and starting early enough to achieve your goal.
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Career Maze is designed to help every job seeker, at every level, make smarter
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Once completing the assessmemt, your 2-part report includes:
A specific, career-relevant discussion of your workplace personality
A list of job types compatible with your personality
Career Maze encourages you to think about tapping your full potential to find your future.
iHipo is an international graduate careers Website that enables users (students and graduates) to find internships,
jobs, and graduate programs abroad.
The iHipo CV tips section offers advice on CV writing, resume writing, cover-letter writing, as well as interview
questions to prepare you for your job interview.
The Internship Resources section has advice on finding summer internships, internship programs,
internships abroad, as well as samples of what an internship report (the report students are often
required to submit to their professors upon completion of an internship) can look like.
Find a Job, Post Your Resume -- on our Job Portal!
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FIND MBA -- if you're considering a MBA,
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The site publishes regular MBA-related news, articles, and interviews, and hosts an active community discussion boards on MBAs.
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MarketingJobs.com -- a job board
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job listings (by keyword, location), post your resume, register for email job alerts,
and find relevant career articles. No cost to job-seekers.
TopSchoolJobs -- from Education Week,
a job board for K-12 educators and administrators, where job-seekers can search job listings
(by keyword, job type, location), post your resume, register for job alerts, and find key
education-related articles and job-seeker resources. No cost to job-seekers.
Find even more career and job site additions to Quintessential Careers by visiting our
Latest Additions section.
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Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
"Thanks to improved job opportunities," reports The Christian Science Monitor's Stacy Teicher Khadaroo,
"this year's crop of college graduates won't have to hit the pavement quite as hard as their counterparts did in the
past few years. Their spring job outlook is the best it's been since 2007, with employers planning to hire 10 to 20 percent
more new graduates this year than they did last year, according to two recent surveys." Some "hot"
majors include e-commerce, entrepreneurism, math, and public relations. Khadaroo's
slide-show-style article offers a breakdown of hiring and salary prospects for
various industries, college majors, and skill sets.
On Monster Thinking, a Monster.com blog, Charles Purdy offers 10 tips for new grads to stand out from the crowd:
AfterCollege offers The Employer Popularity Index -- the most popular companies on college campuses,
according to 50,795 respondents. The companies are graphically represented, and the
bigger the company's font size, the more popular it is. You can click on any company name to
learn its exact numerical rank and more about it. You can also filter the list by the type of student
you are (e.g., business, tech) or the type of company (e.g., financial, healthcare) that
Interests you.
We are honoring our 15 favorite career gurus with the title of Quintessential Careers Career Mastermind.
In turn, they are honoring our readers in a number of ways throughout the rest of the year ... with articles,
tips, and a special feature in our 15th anniversary issue of QuintZine in November.
Quintessential Careers Press Announces Our Latest Book: The Quintessential Guide to
Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media.
The
Quintessential Guide to Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media,
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., and Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., provides six chapters to guide you
through the next revolution in online job search. Since job boards, vestiges of the first
revolution in online job search, should still be part of the job-seeker's toolkit, this
book helps you navigate those while also considering the future of job boards. The book
looks at building your personal brand, teaches you to make the most of social-media venues
in the job search, guides you in creating a digital presence, suggests you consider blogging,
and discusses ways to integrate multimedia elements into your job search.
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QuintZine: Topics in Upcoming Issues
WATCH FOR feature articles on these topics in upcoming issues of QuintZine:
* Warning Signs You Won't Like Your Next Employer
* New Grads: Roadmap to Work and Play
* Working Night Shifts/Odd Shifts
* De-Stressing Before an Interview
* 15 Quick Tips for Acing the Job Interview
* Cover Letter "Rules" 2.0: Reframing Cover-Letter Guidelines for Today's Job Search
* 15 Quick Tips for a Winning Resume
* More Cover-Letter Components
* Crafting Transferable Skills Stories
* 15 Quick Tips for Fighting Age Discrimination and the Overqualified Label
* Older Workers Struggling at Job-Search: Is It Age Discrimination?
* Empty Nest Job-seekers
* How to Stay Motivated at Work
* 15 Quick Tips for Gaining Valuable Experience in College
* Major Stress: Quiz for Choosing a Major/Career
* 15 Quick Tips for Excelling at Work
* 15 Quick Tips for Obtaining Your Next Promotion
* 15 Quick Tips for Getting Accepted into College
* Another Option After High School: Vocational/Trade Schools
* Fourth Annual Job Action Day
* 15 Quick Tips for Career Branding Success
* Career Branding Checklist
* Special Quint Careers 15th Anniversary Issue
* 15 Career Gurus
* 15 Indispensable Career Books
* 15 tips, samples, tools, and more.
* 15 Quick Tips Strengthening Your Career Network
* 15 Quick Tips for Working with Headhunters
* Quintessential Career Profiles of YOU, our readers
* Q&As with well-known career experts
* Book reviews
. . . and much, much more...
