“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill With finals week almost over, warmer weather settling in and summer plans almost commencing we want to wish everyone good luck and farewell! We wanted to thank the Career Advisors who are graduating this May and early next …
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Plan Ahead…. Take advantage of amazing resources
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” — Andrew Carnegie My number one strength is Adaptability. The world is constantly shifting, plans change, circumstances change and life happens; being very flexible and living in the here and now is what works and makes most sense to …
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We are hiring
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. -Steve Jobs January is almost over and we hope that you have found a good rhythm for the rest of the semester. Hiring season is here! We are super excited to …
Greek Life and the Real World
“It takes community to maintain a human.” –Earon Davis There are a lot of negative connotations that can be associated with members of Greek life. A lot of people assume that being part of a sorority or fraternity means that all you do is party, have …
Keep It Clean: How to Maintain Professional Social Media
Our generation is the first to be considered “digital natives”. We’ve grown up with the internet, so now as young adults, we are fully capable of traversing it because of this close familiarity. I believe that being digital natives means we should be more careful with our posts. During our time staring at screens, we’ve seen …
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Alumni Experience: Sam Stevens
“ Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” – Jalaluddin Rumi Samantha “Sam” Stevens graduated in 2017 with a major in Psychology and a minor in Engineering. After graduating Sam moved to Austria where she currently lives working as an au pair. She …
Winning Justice and Transforming Communities: Careers in Social Justice
“THE THINGS YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT ARE NOT RANDOM, THEY ARE YOUR CALLING.” ― FABIENNE FREDRICKSON There are people who are passionate about helping individuals who experience injustice in their everyday lives. There are people who want to incorporate their faith and their work. These are people with passion, with a heart to …
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The Power of Waking Up Early
College is all about staying up late and procrastination, right? At least to some, spending your days running from classes to extracurricular activities leaves only the late night hours to get work done. What if there was a better way to handle this? Over the years, several respectable organizations including Entrepreneur and Forbes have conducted research …
Welcome!
“A smile is the universal welcome.” Max Eastman The Career Development Center would like to say hello and welcome! We hope that the first two weeks has been good to everyone, and that everyone has found a good rhythm for the rest of the semester. The Career Development Center (CDC) has a lot of great …
How to conquer email- Email vs Text messages
This part of the email series will talk about some differences on communicating through text and emal. With the instantaneous nature of email, it is easy to treat it like texting, but this is a mistake that should not be made. Email is more formal by nature than a text message. As easy as it …
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