Career and life planning resources for college students, recent grads, and career-changers.
When you step into your college dorm room for the first time, there’s no saying what kind of roommate you’ll get. Hopefully, you’ll get lucky and find an immediate connection and, before you know it, become instant friends. More often, though, that isn’t the case. It can be hard to live with a complete stranger,…
You spent five years equipping yourself with the math skills, the anatomy and physiology experience, the familiarity with machines and other critical knowledge and abilities necessary to become an engineer. Even before that, you prepared for your undergraduate studies by toiling in math and science classes in high school. Now that you are finally qualified…
As an introvert, you may feel that your personality will hold you back from career success. However, there are aspects to an introvert’s personality that can be advantageous. In addition, coping mechanisms can help motivated introverts level the playing field in an extrovert dominated world.. Katie Rasoul, author of Hidden Brilliance: A High-Achieving Introvert’s Guide to…
It has recently been revealed that Amazon previously used a recruiting tool that had a bias against women. Amazon, who abandoned this tool in 2015, stated that its models were made to favor men over women after ten years of analyzing the resumes of the male-dominated tech industry. So why were these tools favoring women?…
When students are in high school and thinking about everything they will learn in college, they don’t even imagine the amount of stress they will be under. There’s only a small group of students who are without stress, or at least seem to be. The rest of the college students are dealing with stress every…