LCB Career Services

Take advantage of our drop-in hours this Thursday from 9a to 4p. It’s totally informal, so just drop by and feel free to talk to anyone about jobs, internships, resumes, cover letters, interviews…whatever!
What’s the treat? Excellent career advice and guidance, of course! Okay, there’s candy also.

Whatever is on your mind, whatever your career hunt looks like, whatever state your resume is in, come in to Career Services on Friday from 10a to 2pm to chat with your rock star advisor team.
We know you have a lot to think about with only 9 months to go until **gasp** the real world, [...]

by Bill Sherman, Assistant Director for Employer Relations

You’ve graduated and want a job. Great. Get in line, you’re told, with all the other unemployed. If the average entry-level professional position receives hundreds (sometimes thousands) of resumes, what hope does a recent grad have of standing out, getting noticed, being seen? [...]

If you’re like most of us, you weren’t born into a well-connected family; you didn’t go to summer camp with Phil Knight’s kids and your mom wasn’t Bill Gates’ accountant.  But that doesn’t mean you can’t develop those connections that will help you advance in your career.
Whether you’re working in an internship, the job of [...]

Almost everyone has a Facebook page or some type of other social networking web page. Even though it’s just for fun, you need to remember to always keep your public profile professional. Employers are lurking everywhere and can use your online presence as evidence of your decision making and reputation. Make sure you have [...]

Now that you’ve graduated, does the dream job you’ve been working toward seem out of reach? Are you working in a job that doesn’t even seem close to that dream job? Don’t be too distraught–big dreams don’t come true overnight. The work you’re doing today can still give you valuable experience that builds your qualifications [...]

In the beginning there was the internet. The internet grew and expanded, and information overload ensued. There are now more choices for the job seeker on the web than ever before: Monster, Career Builder, Yahoo! Hot Jobs, JobDango, America’s Job Bank, not to mention online classifieds, blogs, and professional organizations. So [...]

It’s the classic catch-22… you need experience to get a job, but how can you get experience without having a job? With student loans, rent, and increasing food and gas prices, it’s a problem you wish you had the answer to.
One way you can get some great business experience, see several companies from the [...]

LinkedIn can be a very useful tool to help you manage your professional contacts.  A new account takes about 2 minutes to set up and can help reveal those hidden networks you didn’t even know you had access to.  Link now with your professors and classmates to get started, and you can link to [...]

This is an interview question that can trip up even the most veteran of job seekers.  The Wall Street Journal printed an article this week addressing the pit falls and ways to avoid them.  Remember that LCB Career Services can help you with this and other interview questions and skills through advising and mock interviews.  [...]