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Why You Should Conduct an Informational Interview Right Now
I’ve found that most students who actually conduct informational interviews receive the following benefits: They learn about particular industries, companies, and possible job opportunities and leads...
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Book Review – What’s That Job and How the Hell Do I Get It?
I love it when students recommend career books to me that I haven’t yet discovered. This book, What’s That Job and How the Hell Do I Get It?: The Inside Scoop on More Than 50 Cool Jobs from People Who...
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What is Career Planning? – Overview of the Five Basic Steps to Career Planning
The following is a simple and brief overview of purposeful career planning. The steps mainly come from what I learned in graduate school and from practicing what I learned while working as a...
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Keys to Success for Taking Effective Career Planning Steps
I previously gave my take on purposeful career planning, providing a simple outline of five basic career planning steps. In this post, I’ll list some tips to be especially aware of throughout each of...
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My Favorite Informational Interview Questions
If you’re exploring careers and interested in learning more about a particular job or career field, then the following list of questions I believe are the best questions to ask during an informational...
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Career Action Plan
A career action plan is a listing of steps to be taken both in the short-term and long-term in the context of achieving career goals. This type of planning is a great activity to synthesize and...
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Three Basic Questions to Help Decide Yes or No
I was a “yes” person for too many years of my life, be it in school or at work. When something needed to get done I was usually the one who got asked to do it. People knew that I would get it done,...
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Write Your Own Career Action Plan
Writing a career action plan is an excellent strategy in career planning and development. There are many ways to put together a career action plan. The following guidelines provide what I think are...
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Top Decision Making Tips for Figuring Out a College Major and Career Path
Here’s a round up of the responses from a quick activity in a career/life planning class earlier today. The goal was to come up with the top career planning tips for figuring out a college major...
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