Archive for the ‘careers’ category
Sunday, February 27th, 2011

I am too busy. Too busy to write. Too busy to sleep. (Well, maybe not that last one.) However, last week I promised I would come back and write about goals and while I may be a day late, I’m here. At my new job we meet every Monday morning to discuss our goals for [...]

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

This is not the diary of an employed graduate student who is overly ambitious and cannot find time to do what she wants to do in a day. Who is with me in petitioning that we add five more hours to each day? Clearly, there is a lot of change and a lot of adapting [...]

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

It has come to my attention that Career/Job fairs are a gargantuan waste of time. This is not a conclusion drawn solely on personal experience. I actually interviewed an HR Manager for a very well respected hospitality company* and she said that company’s are going to job fair to recruit. However, it’s very one sided. [...]

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

At the beginning of the semester I watched this video for my HR class. While the SEIU Head, Andy Stern, is discussing unions (which is totally unrelated to this post), he makes a few very interesting comments at the beginning of this address to the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He encourages young people to [...]

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