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Advice from the Other Side: Maintaining Schoolwork-Life Balance
If you know anybody with a full-time job, chances are you’ve heard them talk about trying to achieve work-life balance. This is something that everybody struggles to attain and maintain in their professional and personal lives, and balancing work and play is vital in helping people maintain their sanity. Guess what? It’s just as important ...
Advice from the Other Side: Powering Through After Spring Break
Sarah Farkas shares tips for spring semester success.
Advice from the Other Side: How Internships Prepare You for a Career
Boston University provides students with a comprehensive, well-rounded education that prepares you for meaningful careers in all sorts of exciting industries. There’s no doubt that your time spent as a Terrier will strengthen your knowledge and skill set, but you want to be sure that you are not relying solely on your coursework to get ...
Advice from the Other Side: Setting Goals in the Workplace
The first few months of a new job are all about getting your bearings and learning the essential functions of your role. After you’ve got the basics down, it’s important to continue to grow your skill set and continue to develop professionally. Setting goals (whether short-term or long-term) is vital to achieving success both in ...
Advice from the Other Side: Owning Your Career Path
With the spring semester coming to an end and summer quickly approaching, Terriers are securing all kinds of exciting summer internships, fellowships, research opportunities, full-time jobs, and graduate school acceptances. You’re happy that your friends are succeeding in their career development, but what happens if you don’t get the position you wanted, or the salary ...
Advice from the Other Side: Applying School Lessons to Work
Yes, your academic coursework will really help you in your life after BU, no matter where your career path takes you.
Advice from the Other Side: Stay Flexible
Have you ever wondered why there are distribution requirements at BU? If you come to BU knowing in your heart of hearts that you want to be a mechanical engineer, why are you forced to sit through a humanities requirement? If you know that you want to be an English professor, why must you suffer ...
Advice from the Other Side: Navigating Office Culture
The lessons you learn in the classroom prepare you for a successful career, no doubt about it. However, the classroom environment doesn’t always mirror the office environment. Navigating office culture and politics can be a bit intimidating when you’re first starting out in the professional world. I, for example, worked in food service and interned ...
Advice from the Other Side: Use Your Age to Your Advantage
As you leave your undergraduate studies behind and enter into your first post-college job, it’s very likely that you’ll be the “baby” of the office. Being one of the youngest and least experienced of your colleagues can be really intimidating (as the youngest staff member in the CCD, I know how it feels). However, there ...
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, ...
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