Why Coaching Was the Best Decision I’ve Ever Made
The Friday of my first week of class was my first career coaching appointment. I strolled into the Bernstein-Offit Building or the BOB building as it’s known among students studying...
Category "Job Search Strategy"
The Value of Being Comfortable with Ambiguity
This past spring, I attended the Admitted Students Day at Carey Business School to speak with admitted students about my Carey experience. During the event, one of the professors who...
Demystifying Informational Interviews in 3 Steps
Someone I’m very close to will graduate from college in May. He had an internship at a not-for-profit last year and is not sure whether to pursue his artistic interests...
Top 5 Ways Immersive Learning Will Change Your Career (and Life)
As another semester comes to a close, and as we gear up for those last few weeks of 2017 and start to scribble down our 2018 resolutions, I invite you...
5 TED Talks to Boost Your Career
As a career coach, I recommend TED talks to my clients to inspire, motivate, and help them problem-solve. At their best, TED talks are vitamins for your mind, injecting you...
8 Tips (and More!) to Get the Job from a Carey Grad
As a career coach, I find nothing more rewarding than hearing back from alumni who have embarked on a career journey they love. I was absolutely delighted to receive an...
8 Factors to Consider During Your Internship Search
During the summer between the first and second years of the MA/MBA in Design Leadership program, students have the opportunity to complete an internship. I spent my summer in Boston,...
3 Steps to Internship Search Success
A couple of weeks ago, I finished my project presentation to the Unit Chief of Operational Risk Management at the Inter-American Development Bank. I had been working for two months...
5 Simple Suggestions to Help You Identify the Opportunity of a Lifetime
Congratulations! Now that the semester has ended and many have graduated, the Career Development staff has time to reflect on the last year, especially the coaching of students and alumni we’ve...
New Grads, the World Needs Your Energy
Some of you are approaching graduation, and you may be wondering what you have to offer the workplace. As a career coach, that’s the most common question I’m asked. Now,...
What Employers Look for under Global Asset Redistribution?
On December 11th 2001, China’s admission to the World Trade Organization [WTO] unveiled the beginning of Globalization. People who witnessed a substantial change in China during the first 10 years of...
Daring to Fear
Fear is an interesting force. The notion of eliminating fear is quite prevalent in our culture, especially in the year 2017. Its absence, we are told, paves the way for...
How I Landed a Job in NYC
Exactly a year ago I decided to push myself to find a job in the United States before graduation. I started by developing a job search plan after consulting with...
4 Career Pitfalls Mended with Gold
Have you heard of kintsugi? It is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, silver, or platinum and looks something like this: As you can see, the cracks...
3 Lessons Learned Job Searching in China
I recently graduated with an MS in Marketing degree from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and similar to all my classmates, I was eager to find the perfect job...