Feature Article: How the Lessons, Skills, and Values You Develop in College (and Maybe Even
High School) Prepare You for the Job Market
Special Feature: College Students: You Simply Must Do an Internship (Better Yet: Multiple Internships)!
Bonus Feature: Addicted to Internships: How One
College Student Just Said No to Service Jobs and Started Building a Career One Internship at a Time
A Quintet of Quick Questions: QuintZine's Q&A with a Career Expert
Quintessential Reading: QuintZine's Review of Career Books
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
Notes from the Publisher:
Announcing New Book, Site Launch
For many years, really since Quintessential Careers was founded, we've focused a portion of our efforts on college
students... providing advice related to choosing majors, obtaining internships, attending grad schools, and finding jobs.
In more recent years, perhaps because this site's founders are also college professors, we also developed an interest
in helping students succeed in college, especially assisting incoming first-year college students bridge the ever-increasing
gap between high school and college.
We're proud to announce that the result of these efforts is our first non-career book, The Complete Idiot's Guide
to Study Skills, as well as a sister site, MyCollegeSuccessStory.com.
The mission of MyCollegeSuccessStory.com is to provide key study skills tools to help students achieve academic success.
The site is designed to help college-bound and current college students enhance the academic skills they have to achieve even
greater success.
The site is full of original sage advice, tips, and tools to help students navigate the waters of a college education. Besides
expert advice, the site also includes stories from real college students and recent graduates -- who gladly share their
stories and tips on how they learned how to excel in college. Finally, links to other key study-skills Websites are also included.
We encourage you to visit the site and see the same level of quality about academic success and study skills that you
can find here about job-hunting and careers. After you visit MyCollegeSuccessStory.com, our other request is that you
encourage others to visit the site and encourage any high school or college to link to the site. Here's a link
to a press release about the site launch.
Both Quintessential Careers and MyCollegeSuccessStory.com
are subsidiaries of EmpoweringSites.com.
--Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., Founder and President,
EmpoweringSites.com, Quintessential Careers
Notes from the Editor: About this Issue...
Since my partner pretty much said it all, I'll be brief. We've had a Back-to-Campus issue every year
of QuintZine's eight-year existence.
This year, our focus is study skills and their relationship to employability skills, in conjunction
with our new book and Web site. We're also featuring two articles on internships.
We haven't left out regular job-seekers, though. We offer a Q&A with a career expert and a review of her book.
--Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., Master Resume Writer, Credentialed Career Master,
Certified Electronic Career Coach, and editor at
kathy@quintcareers.com
Feature Article: Lessons From College
How the Lessons, Skills, and Values You Develop in College (and
Maybe Even High School) Prepare You for the Job Market
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., and Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
In other areas of Quintessential Careers, we discuss some of the key skills and values
employers seek from college graduates, including communications (writing, speaking, and
interpersonal), teamwork, analytical ability, multitasking, organization, leadership,
problem-solving, tenacity, and dependability. [For more information, see our article,
What Do Employers Really
Want? Top Skills and Values Employers Seek from Job-Seekers]. Workers can
develop these skills and values in a variety of different ways, but college is the place
where many inexperienced and green teens transform themselves into highly desirable
college graduates and prospective employees.
QUINTESSENTIAL RESUMES AND COVER LETTERS is now providing solutions
with unmatched quality in the areas of career planning, professional resume writing, and interviewing, having
successfully helped tens of thousands of clients, from executives through individuals beginning a career,
succeed in their career goals..
College Students: You Simply Must Do an Internship (Better Yet: Multiple Internships)!
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
As both an educator and a partner in Quintessential Careers,
I get very frustrated when college students graduate and
then tell me that they can't get a job because employers
disdain their lack of experience.
We try to impress on students how phenomenally important
it is that they complete at least one internship, and preferably several.
But since we still hear from students facing the how-can-I-get-experience-if-I-have-no-experience dilemma,
some students are probably wondering why they should complete internships.
Addicted to Internships: How One College Student Just Said No to Service Jobs
and Started Building a Career One Internship at a Time
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
As a college student struggling to make ends meet, would you have the courage to swear off typical college restaurant
and retail jobs and commit yourself to career-boosting internships -- even unpaid internships? Rising Manhattan College senior
Julie Davis did -- even after relocating from Florida to the far more expensive New York City.
Marketing major Davis, 21, aspires to enter the music business. With four internships under her belt, additional hands-on experience
while in high school, and a budding not-for-profit college radio promotions entrepreneurial venture to her credit, Davis could
be characterized as already being in the music business.
QuintZine's Q&A with Career Expert: Susan Guarneri
Susan Guarneri, the Career Assessment Goddess.
"You will likely change careers/jobs several times in your working lifetime -- that is accepted knowledge
in the workplace," said Susan Guarneri in the Q&A interview she did with Quint Careers. "Whether the
change is voluntary or not, you can re-invent yourself and take advantage of the ever-evolving opportunities
that the world of work presents."
In our full Q&A with her,
read more of Guarneri's take on hopeful trends in job-hunting, as well as how job-seekers can stand out in a crowded job
market, the best ways to identify the career that will give you the greatest happiness, thoughts on whether resumes
are dead, and how to polish content in online profiles.
With Job Search Bloopers, Susan Guarneri and Laura DeCarlo have created the perfect resource for the frustrated job-seeker who wonders
"Why can't I get a job?", "What am I doing wrong?", or "Why am I so miserable in my career?" The book's structure, which offers job-seeker
stories, pinpoints exactly how the job-seeker has stumbled, and clearly outlines a better strategy, could not be more user-friendly. Guarneri and
DeCarlo then motivate the reader by spelling out steps for a more effective job search. It's one thing to read the same old advice from
career experts; it's quite another to learn from the impact of this book's 72 blooper stories.
MyCollegeSuccessStory.com, is dedicated to helping students achieve academic success.
Original advice, tips, and tools cover such topics as time management procrastination, learning styles, reading
techniques, note-taking methods, research and writing advice, suggestions for working in teams, guidelines for giving
effective presentations, recommendations for test preparation, overall ideas for surviving the college experience -- and much more.
The site also includes stories from real college students and recent graduates -- who gladly share their stories
and tips on how they learned how to excel in college. Finally, links to other key study skills Websites are also included.
College Grazing --
offers 13 interactive self-discovery surveys for college-bound students that provide immediate feedback
to give your college planning focus and insight. Also includes a complete application essay writing guide
and other tools and resources that you will need for a successful college search. No cost to students.
LiveHire -- an
innovative job site in which job-seekers submit your professional profile as part
of your job-search.Employers who are interested then contact you via email and arrange
an online interview via Webcams. Great for long-distance job-search. No cost to job-seekers.
MyChances.net
-- a really interesting college-planning site for college-bound students.
By signing-up for a no-cost account, you can keep track of your college applications
and compare your stats to those of other college applicants. It's also a great resource
for discovering new colleges that match your qualifications that you didn't know about. No
cost to students.
YourOnRamp
-- a fantastic career, networking, personal advice, and job site resource for women in career transition.
Whether OnRamping or OffRamping, the site offers tools to help you succeed. Lots of great
resources, no matter where you are in your career. No cost to visitors.
Find even more career and job site additions to Quintessential Careers by visiting our
Latest Additions section.
Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
As students gear up to go back to school this fall, those already in the workforce may want to consider
continuing their education, a new survey suggests. Ninety-four percent of senior executives interviewed
said their firms offer tuition benefits for their employees. Ninety-five percent of respondents said their companies
also reimburse for other forms of professional development.
The survey was developed by Accountemps, a staffing services firm specializing in accounting and finance. It was conducted by
an independent research firm and is based on telephone interviews with 150 senior executives from the nation's 1,000 largest companies.
Executives were asked, "Does your company offer college or university tuition reimbursement benefits for employees?" Their responses:
Yes: 94 percent
No: 5 percent
Don't know: 1 percent
Executives were also asked, "Does your company reimburse for other forms of professional development or training?" Their responses:
Yes: 95 percent
No: 2 percent
Don't know: 3 percent
CollegeGrad.com lists the Top 200 Intern Employers for 2008,
based on results of its 2008 Top Entry Level Employers survey.
The Top Intern Employers
list details internship hiring plans for 200 employers nationwide. Each employer page also details projections for entry- and
master's-level hiring.
Among the 2008 Top 200 Intern Employers listed by CollegeGrad.com,
53 percent anticipated hiring more interns in 2008 than 2007. Twenty-two
percent planned to hire the same number and 25 percent planned to hire fewer
interns than in 2007. But even though more than half of employer
respondents indicated they would be increasing their total intern hiring,
the total increase intern hiring is only 0.52 percent over 2007 intern hiring.
The NASA Undergraduate Student Research Project offers internship opportunities for undergraduate science and
engineering students at all 10 NASA centers and additional partner facilities. These mentor-guided internships provide hands-on, real-life,
career-related experiences that challenge, inspire, and provide practical application that complements and expands upon students'
academic education. Three internship sessions are offered: a 15-week spring session, a 10-week summer session and a
15-week autumn session. Eligible applicants must be classified as sophomores, juniors or seniors by the start of their internship.
The students must be U.S. citizens with academic majors or course concentration in engineering, mathematics, computer science,
or physical and life sciences. Find out more here.
Quintessential Careers Press Announces Our Latest Book: The Quintessential Guide to
Finding and Maximizing Internships.
The Quintessential Guide to Finding and Maximizing Internships,
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., and Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., provides eight chapters that
will help you decide what you need in your internship experience, tell you how to find one,
give you the tools to secure one, teach you how to make the most of your internship experience,
show you how to turn an internship into a job, and provide internship resources.
QuintCareers Network of Empowering Blogs
What are QuintCareers empowering blogs?
The Career Doctor Blog:
Especially for those who miss our former regular feature, Ask the Career Doctor, this blog each day features a question and answer from The
Career Doctor, Randall S. Hansen, PhD.
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QuintZine: Topics in Upcoming Issues
WATCH FOR feature articles on these topics in upcoming issues of QuintZine:
* Credit Reports and Job-Search
* 10 Critical Interviewing Tips
* Wheel of Wellness
* 3 Generations of Workers: Y, X, Boomers
* Employee Healthy Benefits
* College Financing
* Scholarship Do's and Don'ts
* The Academic Job Search
* Perks of Working in Higher Ed
* Signs Your Job is in Jeopardy
* Blogging Way to New Job or Holiday Job-Hunting
* Office Politics
* Maternity Leave
* Jobs on the Cutting Edge
* Job Search IQ Quiz
* Resume Bullet Points: Before and After
* GLBT Job-search Issues
* The Value of Internships Abroad and Study Abroad
* Top 10 Fears of Job-seekers
* For Job-hunting Success, Develop a Detailed Job-Search Plan
* Keep Your Career Dreams Alive
* MBA Career Portfolios
* Pre-Hire Background/Credit Checks
* Financial Aid/Scholarship Timetable
* Build Confidence and Avoid Insecurity in Job Interviews
* Empty Nest Job-seekers
* Lifelong Networking
* Networking for the Shy
* Working Night Shifts/Odd Hours
* Quintessential Career Profiles of YOU, our readers
* Q&As with well-known career experts
* Book reviews
. . . and much, much more...
