Careers

Ahhh, it's that time of the summer. The pictures on your small intern desk-in-a-closet are coming down, and you're [...]

For college students, summer is simply a break from lecture halls and overpriced textbooks. It's not a break from working hard, adding sections to your resume, and building on skills learned in the classroom. However, deciding on the best way to spend your summer can be overwhelming and challenging. The location, skill set, dates of a job, and pay rate all contribute to a decision that takes months to decide on. Students often worry about getting a reputable internship that'll make them stand out on in a pile of job applications in the future. However, there are several other ways to have a productive summer and still get more out of an experience than nailing an internship.

There's been lots of talk of whether a master's degree in library and information science is worth the cost. Only [...]

It’s time to gear up for the spring semester, and for many of us, that means finding the perfect internship. But where do you even begin? Here are five things to consider when you’re weighing internship options.

It's another exciting week at the iSchool, and as always there are events that our students should look into attending! If you're starting to look for that perfect job after graduation, there are several career prep seminars being offered to get you ready for the job search. There are also some really interesting speakers and sessions that you can attend. If you're an undergraduate student who's interested in graduate school, the iSchool Grad School Open House is happening at the end of this week. If you attend, your application fee is waived! All the information is in this week's video from our editor, Alyssa.

Happy Monday! As always, there are a lot of career-related events taking place in the iSchool this week. There are also some exciting speakers visiting campus and two contests that are now accepting applicants! Learn more about the must-see events in this week's video update from our editor.

Nick Malik wrote a great post titled The Rule of EA Governance that hits to the core of EA and [...]

Philip Kaplan, iSchool '97, is a serial entrepreneur who has had spectacular successes, as well as his share of failures [...]

As the job search intensifies around campus (including for yours truly), I’ve often wondered about the effectiveness of resumes. Sure, [...]

While I normally blog about online reputation management, today I'd like to talk about lessons that job applicants can learn [...]