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Unemployment for young graduates fell sharply this year. The share of them working jobs that never required a degree did not move.
The stage after the interview is a search, and the thing being searched is not your resume.
Conference career fairs sell a 60-day database of student resumes. You can be in it without buying a plane ticket.
A growing number of internship programs run on repeating windows, not single deadlines, and nobody sends you a notification when they flip back on.
The national programs closing this week are one channel. There is another one running on the opposite calendar, and it has not opened yet.
Your filter is only as good as the field the employer bothered to fill in.
“How did you hear about us” is the only field on a locked-down form where you get to write your own story. Most students pick “Other” and move on.
The roles opening right now have a fraction of the applicants, and almost nobody on your campus is looking at them.
We pointed you at these programs in June. Most of them have since been shut down.
Media internships run a two-stage application, and the step that actually eliminates you arrives by email four days after you submit.
The brand on the sign is almost never the company that hires you, and the gap is where the jobs are.
Retail merchandising tells you all majors are welcome, then screens on a vocabulary almost nobody taught you.
