Internship Success Story: Nayan Meshram

The Career Design Lab is thrilled to celebrate the successes of all of our Columbia University School of Professional Studies students and alumni.
This month we highlight current students who are fortunate to gain work experience through internships!
Congratulations to …

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How to Get a Job: Your Ultimate Guide

Finding a job can be nerve-wracking, exciting, frustrating, exhausting, and even anxiety-inducing. Unfortunately, we’re not here to tell you it’s an easy feat to land a job you love. However, there are ways to make the job search easier (and …

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How to Highlight Transferable Skills on Your Resume and LinkedIn Profile When Changing Industries

According to a recent report from the Pew Research Center, around four percent of workers, on average, changed industries every month from 2019 to 2021. What’s more, in 2021, around five percent of employees found new occupations. Though these percentages …

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15 of the Highest Paying Software Engineering Jobs

The highest-paying software engineering jobs usually involve more experience or specialized skills. Niche skill sets in emerging sectors, like cloud computing and artificial intelligence, often earn bigger paychecks than more generalized roles. Additionally, with more experience, you gain leverage within …

By McKayla Girardin - Forage
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Internship Success Story: Paula Diaz

The Career Design Lab is thrilled to celebrate the successes of all of our Columbia University School of Professional Studies students and alumni.
This month we highlight current students who are fortunate to gain work experience through internships!
Congratulations to …

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Equal Pay Day | The Race and Gender Wage Gap

On March 14 of this year, people across the U.S. will mark Equal Pay Day, the symbolic day each calendar year when a woman’s earnings “catch up” to a man’s earnings from the previous year. Because white women on average

By Deborah Swerdlow - Idealist Careers
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What Is Upskilling?

Before you land a job, you might spend hours learning a particular set of skills to thrive in that industry and role. Once you start your first day, however, your learning should be far from over. Upskilling is when you …

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International Internships | Make Your Dream a Reality

Do you dream about traveling to far off lands? Do you want to be immersed in another culture? And do you want to build up your resume and network while doing it? Then an international internship might be for you.

By Samantha Fredrickson - Idealist Careers
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Success Story of the Week: Arielle Wu

The Career Design Lab is thrilled to celebrate the successes of all of our Columbia University School of Professional Studies students and alumni.
This week we highlight an alumni from the Applied Analytics program. Congratulations Arielle Wu!
Arielle Wu

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What Is a Growth Mindset?

When you think of intelligence, do you think of it as a fixed trait — that the intellect someone is born with is all the intellect they’ll ever have? Or do you think of intelligence as something you can grow and …

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More Big Companies Are Hiring Freelancers. That’s Good News For The Self-Employed

This article from Forbes.com written by Forbes’ Senior Contributor Elaine Pofeldt covers how a  growing number of employers are turning to freelancers for help during the current labor shortage, and self-employed professionals are reaping the benefits of higher demand, according …

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11 Green Flags to Look for in Your Next Job Interview

Job interviews are an exciting part of the hiring process, and not just for employers. When you’re invited to interview for a social-impact opportunity, you are given a chance to make sure the hiring organization is the right fit for …

By Jaxx Artz - Idealist Careers
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Seven Tips for Securing a Meaningful Internship

Finding an internship as you finish high school or college programs is a rite of passage in many ways. Many people speak of the benefits of internships, and many students want to find an internship because they know it is …

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Who’s Hiring? 11 Organizations Supporting Women and Girls

As we step into March, you may be considering how you can be part of the global effort to advance gender parity. That’s because this month is internationally-recognized as Gender Equality Month, during which time people everywhere are encouraged to …

By Jaxx Artz - Idealist Careers
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How to Use ChatGPT in Your Job Search

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that’s taking all corners of the internet by storm. Some use it to dispute medical claims or help them solve complex coding problems. Others have already banned it from schools, worried the bot …

By Zoe Kaplan - Forage
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One-Way Interviews: What They Are (and How to Master Them)

You’re overjoyed that you’ve been invited to interview. Only, instead of receiving a typical job interview email for a phone screen or live interview, you’ve been asked to complete a one-way interview, and now you’re confused. If interviewing is …

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How International Students Can Improve Their Chances of Getting H-1B Visas

With this year’s H-1B visa registration season well underway, we spoke with International Student Career Expert Marcelo Barros about what international students should be doing now, common mistakes students make when searching for U.S. employment, and what we can expect …

By Derek Loosvelt - Firsthand
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Data Analyst vs. Data Scientist: What’s the Difference?

Data analyst vs. data scientist are two popular data-related careers in the technology industry. While the jobs and many of the associated work tasks are related, they aren’t identical.

So, what’s the difference between a data analyst and a data …

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How ChatGPT and other AI will help diverse students and recent grads find jobs

 

I recently sat down with the new artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT, to find out what it thinks it can do to help diverse students and recent graduates of colleges and universities find a great part-time, seasonal, internship, and other …

By Steven Rothberg - College Recruiter
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