Main Feature: College Major Reality Quiz: Do You Know Fact from Myth? A Quintessential Careers Quiz
Special Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Gaining Valuable Experience in College
Bonus Feature: Seven Characteristics of Sought-After Interns
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...
What should you be thinking about if you're starting or returning to college this fall? This issue offers three
aspects of college life that should be on your mind about now:
You don't need to choose a major immediately upon starting college, but you should be thinking
about what you'd like to major in. Before that, though, you'll want to separate college-major myths from realities
with Dr. Randall Hansen's quiz on that subject.
You'll want to think about gaining work experience because employers will value that experience highly when you
graduate. Dr. Hansen's 15 Quick Tips for Gaining Valuable Experience in College will steer you in the
right direction.
An important subset of gaining experience is partaking in internships. Steven Rothberg
offers his take on characteristics of successful interns.
As you prioritize making the most of your college years, we wish you much happiness and success.
--Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., Master Resume Writer, Credentialed Career Master,
Certified Electronic Career Coach, and editor at
kathy(at)quintcareers.com
Feature Article: College Major Misconceptions
College Major Reality Quiz: Do You Know Fact from Myth?
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
High-school students, college-bound students, and adults often have misconceptions about
the importance and role of a major (and double majors, minors) in college.
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No soon-to-graduate college student should have an excuse for a weak resume. Employers hiring
recent college grads are demanding that college grads have work experience, and luckily for you,
a plethora of ways are available to gain experience while in college. While work experience in your chosen
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workplace after you graduate.
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Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
In "How to Translate Your College Experience into a Job," Heather Huhman lists these career-boosting advantages to the college experience:
Soft skills.
Leadership experience.
Accomplishment stories for your resume and cover letter, and interviews.
Understanding of interests and skills.
Huhman also offers a slideshow, "How an On-Campus Job Can Get You Hired Post-Grad," in which she discusses
the benefits of an on-campus job, lists several possible jobs, and tells how to leverage this on-campus experience.
The Web-based app, College Packing List,
includes categories for classroom and computer needs. The app enables students to
create custom shopping lists and provides shopping-guide links.
The annual student survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)
revealed that more than 61 percent of students who did a paid internship in the for-profit sector had a job offer
at the time of graduation. In comparison, approximately 38 percent of students performing an unpaid internship
in the for-profit sector had a job offer, and just a third of students who did not have any type of internship experience
had a job offer.
More than half of the internships undertaken by the college Class of 2011 were paid, the study showed.
The study indicated that 62 percent of students in internships were interested in working full-time for their internship
employer, regardless of whether they were paid as interns.
The 10 worst states for earning a living:
Among respondents to the survey, paid interns spent more time on professional tasks while unpaid interns
were more likely to perform clerical work, suggesting that paid internships may offer employers more of the
type of experience they’re seeking in their new hires.
Also on the subject of internships: Though written from the employer's perspective, Todd Raphael's
"What Top Internship Programs Look Like" offers insight into the factors that make an exceptional internship.
See the article.
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
* More Cover-Letter Components
* Crafting Transferable Skills Stories
* Empty Nest Job-seekers
* How to Stay Motivated at Work
* 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...
