Success Story of the Week: Corban Weatherspoon

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 alumna from the Technology Management program. Congratulations Corban Weatherspoon!

Congratulations to Technology …

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How to have a great first day at work: Part 1

Congratulations on landing your first full-time entry-level job after graduating from college! Woohoo! This is a huge milestone in your career journey.

Starting a new job can be nerve-wracking. Remember the feeling you had when you started high school? You …

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Top 5 Must-Have Skills You Need to Be Competitive in Today’s Job Market

More and more companies are prioritizing upskilling, defined as helping workers advance their careers, and reskilling or training workers on new skills they don’t have. They may help their employees with training programs or pay for them to acquire college …

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Should I Put My Pronouns on My Resume? Ask the “Queer Career Coach”

While we now use online job boards and Zoom meetings in place of classified ads and formal handshakes, one thing remains the same: A good resume can speak volumes about you, before you even open your mouth. Your resume is …

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Guide to Working at Visa 

Curious about what it would be like to work at Visa? Visa is an American financial services company that facilitates international electronic funds transfers. As a world leader in global payments, the company primarily offers Visa-branded credit, debit, and prepaid …

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Guide to Working at AIG

AIG, or the American International Group, Inc., is best known as an international insurance company offering policies to individuals, small businesses, and large corporations. As a Fortune 500 company, AIG operates in dozens of countries and employs nearly 50,000 people …

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Does Job Hopping Really Earn You a Higher Salary?

As of January 2022, the average worker stayed in their position for 4.1 years, a figure that stayed the same since the Bureau of Labor Statistics report issued a year prior, in January 2020. 

Job hoppers, on the other hand, …

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How to Write a Microsoft Resume – With Resume Samples

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Microsoft could be the perfect place to grow your career and contribute to some of the …

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Updating Your Profile on LinkedIn: Skills You Should (and Shouldn’t) Add

Creating a LinkedIn profile can feel stressful enough — how much experience do you add? Do you write descriptions of what you did? Who do you connect with? Should you start making inspirational posts with emojis for emphasis? Yet LinkedIn …

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Should I Move for a Job?

You got a job offer! Fantastic! But it’s in another town, and now you’re wondering, “Should I move for a job?” Well, the answer is … maybe.

There’s a lot to think about when you might have to move for …

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