A strong resume is essential to land the job you want. Typically, your resume includes your education, work experience, and any relevant skills, certifications, awards, and activities you might have. With so much information to highlight, it can be difficult …
Whether you’re looking for your first role since graduating, or you’re continuing to study and looking for some extra income, you may be surprised to learn that your colorful, creative resume may jeopardize your chances of securing an interview. Yes, …
In the summer of 2020, Ben Plotnik (’21) interned remotely at NTELX, a small government consulting and IT contractor with expertise in global trade and supply chain management based in Virginia. For this opportunity, he worked full time from June-August …
We get it. Writing a cover letter for every application is hard. So when you come across the words “cover letter optional” on a job posting, you might feel a weight lift off of you. After all, your application just …
A lot goes into drafting a good resume. You’ll want to make sure you’re using the best format to showcase your skills and achievements, that you’ve carefully edited each section, and that the information you include is relevant to the …
Scan any job board and you’ll quickly see that there are lots of openings for software engineers. And that’s not going to change any time soon. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment rate for software developers …
Whether or not you can do a job—and whether or not you can land that job—often depends on your technical skills. Technical skills are a subset of hard skills, which are the knowledge or abilities needed to perform specific tasks. …
When you’re writing a resume, your education and past jobs are far from the only things that matter. The truth is, the past experiences and skills that employers care about can come from a number of places. And particularly when …
Your first year of college can be a big transition. New places to navigate, new people to meet, and new resources to learn. Not to mention adjusting to college level academics! It can all be a little overwhelming when it’s …
You’ve poured some sweat into that resume (hopefully no tears). It’s tailored top to bottom, chock full of action verbs, and bursting with powerful bullet points, and you finally feel like it’s polished and ready to go. Now you just …
