“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. As a Career Advisor, I often work with students who are dismayed by the resume writing process. They don’t have experience directly relevant to their field of interest, and it seems like they need experience [...]
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Service Will Help Others and You
Friday, January 18th, 2013Career Development- A few resourceful tips
Thursday, November 15th, 2012Career Development refers to the skills and experiences that can help you grow personally and professionally. Here, at Career Services we offer a wide range of services that can help you attain this value knowledge that can be helpful for you when seeking a career: Beaver JobNet Beaver JobNet is OSU Career Services’ online career [...]
Confessions of a Career Changer: My Wavy Path Forward
Monday, June 11th, 2012Hi, OSU Career Beavers blog readers. It’s Finals Week of spring term 2012, and I’ve been writing to you all year about my changeable and wavy career path. I’ve taken many roads! Since graduating with my undergraduate degree, I’ve been an actor, a waiter, a receptionist, a creative writer, a college composition instructor, a gas [...]
Confessions of a Career Changer: The Return to School
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012Week 9, can you believe it?? The Career Changer is back to tell the penultimate episode of her wavy career path, a career path that continues on in this moment, as I sit here at my desk in Career Services at OSU. But cutting right to it, when I left off last time, I was [...]
Confessions of a Career Changer: Always Learning
Monday, April 30th, 2012Welcome to week five!!! The Career Fair last week was a huge success, and we’re inching closer and closer to the end of this academic year. As we do, I’m inching closer to the end of my story of a Career Changer. Or maybe not the end, but I’m definitely inching closer to my present [...]
Confessions of a Career Changer: MFA to Find Your Passion
Monday, April 16th, 2012Welcome back, everyone! Can you believe that we are already in the third week of spring term? Hope your courses are going really well, and you’re enjoying warmer, sunnier weather every day. So, I’m the Career Changer, Jessica, and I’ve been writing all year about my wavy career path to illustrate that the straight path [...]
Professionalism & Avoiding Workplace Conflict
Thursday, April 12th, 2012In honor of April as Workplace Conflict Awareness Month, I think it is important to discuss ways to avoid workplace conflict in the first place. Of course, sometimes conflict is inevitable. Stuff happens. But there are ways to minimize the likelihood of conflicts. If workers take responsibility to act professionally, conflicts are much less likely. [...]
What You Could Be Doing With Your Spring Break
Friday, March 23rd, 2012So, what are your plans for this short week away from school? Are you going to be sunning and sailing, reading a book on a beach somewhere? Or do you have a trip planned to Vegas or LA or NYC for some fun? Or will you be working at your job and preparing for next [...]
Confessions of a Career Changer: Teacher, Teacher!
Monday, March 12th, 2012Can you believe it is week ten? This term has flown by for me; I wonder if it has for you too. Terms didn’t fly by like this in my previous graduate degree. We were on semesters! Sixteen weeks to delve deep into subject matter or get tired of subject matter that no longer interested [...]
