You and I know internships are great. They give you experience, teach you new things, expose you to valuable contacts and often count for course credit. Overall, internships are something you want.
So I wasn’t terribly surprised to see this article posted on The New York Times site the other day about companies having plenty of [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Interns are in high demand
Posted in Internships, Job Search, Jobs for College Students, tagged Internships on July 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Can your internship become a job? Yep!
Posted in First Job, Internships, Job Search on July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Part of the appeal of an internship is the opportunity to parlay it into something bigger and better. For some students, an internship is a necessity for a class, earning an advanced degree or finding a job in the industry. For other students, it’s a way to network and get your foot in the door [...]
Unique ways people have made some extra cash
Posted in Fun Stuff, Salary & Pay, survey on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I would be lying if I said I’ve never had money woes. The college years were especially tough. It wasn’t unusual for my friends and I to pool our money to split a pizza…or something from the dollar menu of a burger joint.
This–shall we say less than appealing–economy is making plenty of people feel a [...]
Those pesky student loans
Posted in Job Search, tagged student loans on July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Aaaaah, college. The place that teaches you just how much pizza one person can consume in a single week. The place where you learned that one red shirt can, in fact, ruin an entire load of laundry. The period of your life when you find out just what your limit is on having an obnoxious [...]
Employers intend to maintain staff levels
Posted in Job Search, survey on July 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The bad news: We’re still in a recession. A bad one.
The good news: Most employers don’t plan to decrease staffs.
In the upcoming months (Q3), most surveyed employers expect their staff levels to remain the same as recruiting patterns hold steady and job losses trend downward, according to a new survey by CareerBuilder and USA TODAY’s.
The [...]
