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Career Planning

Finding Work Months After College Graduation

It is a fact that college graduates are finding it difficult to launch their careers. Despite officially lower unemployment numbers, record numbers of Americans are not in the workforce. Moreover, job growth is weak with the best growth occurring in the service sector.

Career Planning

Career Choice: Fuel Cell Engineers

Fuel cells are being used to develop alternate transportation vehicles including hydrogen-powered cars. The industry is in its infancy with the first mass-produced vehicles expected to hit the market by 2015.

Career Planning

Career Choice: Green Marketers

If you have a passion for environmental sustainability and a desire to “save the earth” or make a contribution to a “greener” future, there is a new category of marketer that may appeal to you. Indeed, the career choice of “green marketer” is so new that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is gathering the data to support this career as of publishing.

Career Planning

Career Choice: Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers

Tweet There are many people that provide these services, but finding quality help often means turning to your neighbors, to third-party services or hoping that your online search turns up

Career Planning

Career Choice: Video Game Designers

Those video games you love to play are the work of video game designers. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Tomb Raider, Guacamelee!, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and BioShock Infinite did not become best sellers apart from the exhaustive efforts of designer professionals.

Campus News

After You Graduate, Where Will You Live?

With college commencement ceremonies now underway, experts are serving up suggestions for the best places new grads should live with an eye toward gaining employment, of course.

Career Planning

Career Choice: Survey Researcher

Taking surveys is one thing, but the work behind such surveys is exhaustive. Professionals, known as survey researchers, are tasked with planning and developing surveys based on certain objectives.

Career Planning

Career Choice: Cost Estimator

Tweet This professional will provide a cost estimate as close to the project total cost as possible, offering a figure that management will consider and budget if the project is

Academics

7 Reasons for Attending College

Tweet However, if you’re flexible in your choice of college, then there shouldn’t be much of any obstacle that would keep you from attending. Therefore, the answer here is “no.”

Career Planning

15 Career Tips for College Students

Tweet Some of the tools you acquire during your college years can serve you well later on, but only if you understand how best to take advantage of them. The

Career Planning

Class of 2012 Job Prospects See Improvement

Tweet Best job outlook in four years for college seniors. NACE found that businesses expect to hire 9.5 percent more college grads this year than last, good news that comes

Career Planning

7 Smart Tips for Finding a Job This Summer

Tweet Lucky for you, you still have one or more years left of school before you have to pound the pavement in search of employment. Still, you know that you