by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Note: In April 2004, Dr. Hansen celebrated his fifth anniversary of writing The Career Doctor column.
In that time he has written more than 125 columns, helping more than 500 job-seekers with their
college, career, and job-search problems by offering his free professional advice.
This article, the third in a series, addresses answers to common college, career, and job questions.
I have now been writing my career advice column,
Ask the Career Doctor, for
five years, and in that time I have received thousands of emails from all types of students, job-seekers,
and career counselors -- from teens struggling with part-time work or choosing a college to
older workers fighting age discrimination -- and everything and everyone in between! From
all of these email questions seeking advice, I offer you my annual list of 10 of the most
common career, college, and job-hunting ailments I get asked about -- and my cures and remedies.
I hope you’ll find the answer to your problem or question in these 10 career ailments,
but if not, please feel free to send me an email to the
Career Doctor and
then continue reading my column while you await a response. You might also look
at some of the other 20 questions I have addressed in
Part I
and Part II
in this series.
Finally, as you read these questions and answers, please remember that while I offer the
best advice to your questions, you should always seek multiple opinions to your job-hunting
and career problems… so take my free advice to heart, take two aspirins, and begin
your job-search anew in the morning!
10 Common College, Career, Job Questions
- What kinds of jobs are
there out there for teens -- and how can I find one?
- How do I go
about choosing a college major?
- How should I deal
with an employer’s request for a salary history or salary requirements?
- How do I go
about getting the best salary... the best job offer?
- What are the
key elements and rules of resumes today?
- Do I really
need to write thank-you letters to employers?
- How
important is follow-up in my job-search?
- Should I
moonlight -- get a second job -- and how do I go about doing it?
- I've heard
of something called informational interviews. What are they and why should I do them?
- Why is the
concept of corporate culture important to job-seekers -- and how do I go about understanding it?
See a list of
all
the most common college, career, and job questions -- and Dr. Hansen's solutions.
Who is the Career Doctor? Learn more, read his current career column, or browse the column
archives when you visit the Career Doctor's homepage.
Dr. Randall S. Hansen is a nationally recognized career and job-search expert.
He is Founder and Webmaster of Quintessential Careers, as
well as publisher of its electronic newsletter, QuintZine.
He writes a biweekly career advice column under the name,
The Career Doctor. He is also a tenured, professor
of marketing in the School of Business Administration at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.
He can be reached at randall@quintcareers.com.
Read more about Dr. Hansen.
