In this Fast Company article, Kristi A. Dosh shares her best tips for how to leverage social media tools to tap into career or industry-related Twitter discussions, use YouTube to turn a hobby into a job skill, and find clients and business leads on […]
By Allison McWilliams (’95), Assistant Vice President for Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University Inevitably, it happens: you stop being challenged by your job, you realize that the culture isn’t a great fit, you’re being treated poorly and you’re sick of […]
By Andrea Ellis (MA ’04), Assistant Vice President of Innovation at Wake Forest University Research continues to inform us that jobs and careers abound with the average worker expected to hold ten different jobs before 40. If you are just beginning your career, that number […]
By Allison McWilliams (’95), Assistant VP, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University There is so much attention placed on the path to and through college – get the best GPA that you can, build your resume through extra-curricular activities and internships, […]
By Lauren Beam (’07), Associate Director, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, at Wake Forest University Whether you are searching for your first job out of college, or have been in the same career field for many years and are now looking for a […]
By Laura Harrell (’92), Director of Engagement Programs in the Office of Alumni Engagement at Wake Forest University In September of 2012, I returned to campus with my family to celebrate my 20th reunion during Homecoming weekend at Wake Forest. I never would have imagined […]
Are you trying to figure out your “career path,” or, “how do I get there from here?” As Scott Anthony Barlow tells us in The Daily Muse, the key is not trying to find a straight line to follow from point A to point […]
By Jessica Long (’05), Assistant Director of Career Education and Coaching in the Office of Personal & Career Development at Wake Forest University We all get to that point in life where we find ourselves wanting something different. Maybe you’ve been in your current job […]
Gen Y: Questions to Ask Yourself When Considering a Job Change, written by Lauren Beam for the Huffington Post, February 7, 2017 Members of Generation Y, the Millennial Generation, can expect to have as many as ten or more job changes by the time […]
Resume writing can be challenging. You know you need to include your “soft skills,” but how do you that effectively (without just listing off a bunch of keywords)? Check out the advice in this piece by Anish Majumdar, CEO of ResumeOrbit.com, originally posted […]