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By Nick Corcodilos Syndicated columnist With the competition so stiff, what can college students to do to get internships that will help them land good jobs after they graduate?(poll) Q: New college graduates are hitting the streets looking for...
For many college students in the class of 2009, the post-graduation job hunt has turned into a quest for a rewarding Plan B — or in many cases Plan C or D.
By The Associated Press Advice for college seniors on making the best of a bad job market, based on interviews with experts: Consider offering to work as an intern rather than a full-time hire. Some companies are reluctant to...
By Nick Corcodilos Syndicated columnist Q: I'm a first-year graduate student, and I want to get a leg up on summer internship opportunities, preferably in a small technology company. These positions aren't typically advertised, so I am researching companies....
By Nick Corcodilos Syndicated columnist polls - Take Our Poll Q: You're going to graduate from college in June. A co-op job with a local company requires that you work there through the end of the year. You want...
polls - Take Our Poll Q: I graduated from college and have been at my new job for about two months. However, I am beginning to lose interest because the work doesn't match my training. When is the earliest...
Whereas workers in some industries are being laid off by the thousands, in others - such as engineering, accounting, and nursing - new employees are being promised high-paying jobs sometimes more than a year before graduation.
BY SUE SHELLENBARGER The Wall Street Journal Noting that my 19-year-old daughter seemed frustrated about career choices after changing college majors a few times, I did what any good helicopter parent would do: I bought her a career-testing and...
Due to their lack of experience, teens often encounter challenges while searching for summer jobs. With the school year about to end, many...
FORT WORTH, Texas -- From flipping burgers to watching over swimmers, the summer job has been a rite of passage for countless teenagers.
The future needs workers – lots of them.
Internships aren't just for college students. High-school students are pursuing them to gain experience and test-drive industries. While some internships for...
Bothell High School senior Lanie Wait thought about a career in health care, but until she interned at a local nursing home this semester she wasn't sure. The course, part of the state's career- and technical-education program, focused her sights on nursing, a field with a critical worker shortage.
Three years ago, when most of this year's college graduates were just finishing their freshman year, job prospects for those just entering the work force looked bleak.
Dana Bagwell arrives early each morning at her job as a recruiter at a staffing firm. "When I'm at my desk, I focus on work and I don't waste time," the 21-year-old says. She figures her work ethic will come in handy as the economy edges closer to a recession. And she's more cautious with money: Bagwell just put off making plans for a vacation in Mexico.
Robin Young needed extra spending money during her winter vacation, so at 16 years old she took a holiday job at jewelry store Something Silver in Portland. Ten years later, after working for the company during breaks from school, she's the manager of the Seattle-based chain's store at Bellevue Square.
Worried about getting aced out of summer jobs, Shorecrest High School tennis buddies Marco Dehmel and Doug Jambor devised their own doubles plan: a tennis racquet-stringing business they call "D-Jam."
College graduates often joke that they can always serve up lattes if they can't get a job in their field. But that's probably not an issue this year. Nationwide, employers are showing more interest in hiring those with fresh diplomas than in years past, particularly in hot fields like high-tech, nursing or accounting.
YouthForce's small downtown Seattle office is about the last place you'd expect to find Donald Trump. Sure enough, though, there the billionaire business mogul stands, perched atop a ledge and surrounded by electric hues of paint that would make Martha Stewart cower behind a peck of pressed pansies.
Mike Uppinghouse wasn't born with skin any thicker than most kids. But over the past two seasons working youth soccer matches — sometimes with irate coaches in his face and cutthroat parents behind his back — the 14-year-old Shoreline youth has built up his resistance to heckling, beefed up his self-confidence, and added some ink on his early résumé while earning about 20 bucks a game to boot.
Jack Goldberg knows the job market from the inside out. His Kirkland-based firm, Personnel Management Systems, not only helps other companies recruit, screen and hire employees, but he has had to do that himself recently. His company now has 20 employees.
Had she been given a choice, Kirsten Franklin-Temple of Seattle would have gladly chosen running water over electricity. She wasn't given a choice, however; she had to live with neither. Franklin-Temple, 29, spent two years after graduating from college working as a Peace Corps volunteer in the West African nation of Gabon.
"Every spring and summer we get flooded with thousands of resumes, all saying how much they want to work at Nike," reports a V.P. involved with Nike recruiting. "New grads enthusiastically state how they think Nike is the 'coolest.' Their fatal mistake," he continues, "is that they never elaborate on how they can keep us great.
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