Navigating Your Final Year of College

So you’ve reached your final year of college and I’m sure you’re feeling a mix between apprehension and excitement. Graduation represents all that you’ve worked towards, but the unknown of post-grad life is uncomfortable—change is uncomfortable. You’re not alone in wondering, what’s next? 20+ years of school being the sole focus, your life is about to…

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Crafting Your Personal Brand: Marketing Yourself Effectively

For many people, one of the most uncomfortable things to do is brag about yourself. It’s easy to remain complacent in a role and dismiss the need to promote your personal brand. However, even if you aren’t a professional salesperson, you must know how to sell yourself to excel in your career.  The Basics It…

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Balancing Mental Health and a Full-time Job

In this busy world, we often forget to take care of what’s most important – our minds. It’s easy to become consumed by deadlines and professional obligations, but you must prioritize your mental health to achieve peak productivity.  Recognizing Your Needs Do you ever feel like your life is passing you by? Like every day…

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Staying Motivated While Working Remotely

Give me a break for bringing up the COVID-19 pandemic, I know we’re sick of talking about it nearly four years later but let me use it for this introduction. We live in a much different world now! Point, blank, period; life, school, and careers operate with our new common term, “remote flexibility”. With today’s…

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The Role of Design in Your Resume: Your Personal Brand

Picture this: You walk into a networking event but look down and realize you’re still in your pajamas, you haven’t brushed your teeth or washed your hair, you haven’t even put on shoes! It seems that you’ve shown up detrimentally unprepared, how will you make a lasting impression?  Your resume works the same way. Most,…

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SMART Goals: Guiding Your Future

You may be someone who has heard of SMART Goals; perhaps you’ve heard enough about them, but they truly are a great tool to use when doing career preparation. It is crucial to set attainable goals because a lot of the time, life passes us by! It isn’t anyone’s job but your own to determine…

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Job Interview Tips: Nailing Your First Professional Interview

Congratulations on landing your first professional interview! Nailing your first-round interview is a crucial step in getting your dream job; cue the internal panic, feel it for a few minutes, let it pass through you, now we prepare.  Remember how daunting final exams always felt? The pressure of its weighted score, the anticipation leading up…

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