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Advice from the Other Side: Career Fair Reflections and Academic Skills
I hope you all had a wonderful experience at the BU Career Fair on Wednesday. Selling yourself to recruiters can be daunting, and I think there can be a general tendency to put great emphasis on how your major has prepared you for a specific job or profession. As you reflect on your Career Fair experience, ...
Internship Series: Central Michigan University
Anna Barcala CAS ’20 | Marine Science Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Researcher CCD: Tell us about your internship experience. What were your responsibilities? Anna: I helped to come up with and plan the project that our team worked on for ten weeks, sampled nutrients daily, filtered all the nutrient samples, and analyzed and presented the findings ...
Advice from the Other Side: Your First Week on the Job
The post-graduation job search can seem endless at times, but with a little perseverance, you’ll soon land your very first “grown-up” job. Taking that first step into your career is so exciting, but it’s also a little nerve-wracking if you don’t know what to expect. After all, you’ve spent the majority of your life in school, and ...
Art of the Interview: Any Questions?
At the end of an interview, you’ll be asked, “Do you have any questions for us?” If you’ve read up on interviewing, you’ll know you should have some questions prepared. And if you’ve looked for advice about what to ask, you’ll get some common suggestions: What does it take to be successful in this job? What’s ...
Advice from the Other Side: Networking with Professors
Hopefully you’ve heard of networking as concept—as you journey towards your career, you’ll talk with a number of people working in your desired profession. That’s the simple, traditional notion of networking. You don’t just need to network with future colleagues and connections, you need to network with faculty and staff! Here a few reasons why ...
Internship Series: Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
Kristin John Questrom/CAS ’20 | Business Administration & Economics Consulting Intern CCD: Tell us about your internship experience. What were your responsibilities? Kristin: I consulted for a fashion brand of a nonprofit based in Ahmedabad, India. The fashion brand created a livelihood for poor, rural women by incorporating their traditional embroidery skills into a profitable business. ...
Advice from the Other Side: Essential Job Search Tips
If you’re anything like I was during my senior year of college, the prospect of finishing up your undergraduate education and having to start your career in the “real world” is, well, pretty scary. Some students are able to secure jobs before they graduate, and that’s great! However, that wasn’t my experience, and it’s perfectly ...
Internship Series: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – Malawi
Rachel Edwards CAS '20 | Sociology and Environmental Analysis & Policy Overseas Summer Intern CCD: Tell us about your internship experience. What were your responsibilities? RE: I worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist to analyze, review, and present data from the 2015-16 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey. I also traveled to conduct Data Quality ...
Get Ready for the Summer Experience Showcase
Ah, summer. Those sweet, sweet months of sunshine, sandy toes, and not a care in the world. As Bostonians, we try our hardest to take advantage of the precious warm weather before we’re forced to bundle up in our heavy coats and boots to survive another long winter. But as Boston University students, it’s important ...
Advice from the Other Side: Applying Summer Lessons
Happy Friday, Terriers! Hopefully you’re adjusting well to the new semester and applying some of the advice that I gave you about your first couple of weeks. I’m going to ask you to take a trip down memory lane today, all the way back to this summer (yay!). What nuggets of wisdom did you learn ...
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