Everyone seems to claim that when they graduated from school, the job market was the worst it’s ever been – kind of like how when they were young, they walked to school 10 miles in the snow uphill both ways. While I’d love to be more reassuring, there’s no point in my skirting...
Power Shift 2009, a national environmental summit, was held in Washington D.C. February 27-March 2. I was one of 12,000 students that attended the summit. Power Shift was led by and for young people and coordinated by the Energy Action Coalition. Consisting of 50 leading organizations, 700 local groups...
We all know that job searching in today’s job market is like bouncing a ball and trying to land it in the hoop. Only in this case, the number of players is a lot higher and the court size smaller. The question is how smart is our dribbling technique and how many dribbles we have to go through to...
How much time do you spend daily on social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace? It is a question I addressed to Georgia Tech students at one of the job search seminars I presented. The responses varied in time frames, but I was not surprised to see that every single student in the audience raised...