9 Tips for Your Resume Email Subject Line (So Someone Actually Reads the Thing)

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 …

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Happy Summer to All — Here’s How to Meet with Us This Summer

The Career Center is a life-long resource AND we are here all summer. Feel free to make an appointment if you are looking for your first job after graduation, ways to build skills and competencies over the summer, or ways …

By Robin Kahan
Robin Kahan Associate Director, Engineering Career Services
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Cover Letter Clichés to Avoid

If you’re on the job hunt, chances are you’ve written more than your fair share of cover letters, and it can certainly be a challenge to keep each letter fresh and interesting. One simple way to up your job application …

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How to Write a Cover Letter Like Hemingway

The first episode of the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary Hemingway reveals where Ernest Hemingway's famous writing style originated. Before the Nobel Prize-Winner wrote short stories and novels, he worked as a Kansas City Star reporter. The Star introduced …

By Firsthand
We help applicants, students, job-seekers and professionals like you find the right career path using the power of firsthand experiences.
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To EP or Not to EP: Employers Weigh In

We recently reached out to some of our employer partners to get their take on how transcripts are evaluated with new grading models due to COVID-19. Exceptional Pass (EP) has been offered at Tufts since COVID has disrupted the traditional …

By Misha D'Andrea
Misha D'Andrea Recruiting Coordinator, Employer Relations
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Program Highlight: MAIP

Meet MAIP! The Multicultural Advertising Intern Program

The Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP) is an internship program established in 1973 to provide diverse candidates with a paid internship in the advertising industry. The MAIP Fellowship comprises 22 weeks of invaluable …

By Misha D'Andrea
Misha D'Andrea Recruiting Coordinator, Employer Relations
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Announcing Arts, Communications, Entertainment & Media Week! April 12-April 16

We are excited to announce our programming for the Arts, Communications, Entertainment & Media Week! We will have programming running each day the week of April 12th, culminating in an Art + Design Virtual Career Fair on Friday, April 16th from …

By Misha D'Andrea
Misha D'Andrea Recruiting Coordinator, Employer Relations
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Employer Opportunity Highlight: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

🎨Employer Background

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States. It contains more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas.

As …

By Misha D'Andrea
Misha D'Andrea Recruiting Coordinator, Employer Relations
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Friday Fave: Cover Letter Resources

Happy Friday, Jumbos! So, who loves cover letter writing?? Anyone …? Well, it’s not usually the favorite task in the career development world, that’s for sure.

Even if it isn’t required, though, we in the Career Center always recommend sending …

By Susannah Krenn
Susannah Krenn Assistant Director, Communications & Marketing / Career Advisor
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Top 4 Handshake Tools You’re Not Using

Hey there Jumbos!
Did you think Handshake was just a tool for scheduling an appointment to see a career advisor or looking for a job? Well, have I got some exciting news for you!

Handshake has myriad uses to not only …

By Misha D'Andrea
Misha D'Andrea Recruiting Coordinator, Employer Relations
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