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• Management Consulting and Finance: Still Desirable for College Grads?

  My friend and 30/20 Vision radio show co-host Lindsey Pollak and I had the opportunity to contribute to Marci Alboher’s New York Times career coach roundtable on management consulting and investment banking as careers for soon-to-be college grads. Here Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 4 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Current Affairs, Business, Personal Development, Work, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Lemons, Lemonade and a Radio Show

  A few days ago, I was scheduled to be on a local NPR radio show with one of my biggest and longstanding influencers, Bruce Tulgan . For those of you who might not know, Bruce is internationally recognized as a leading expert on young people in the workplace Read More... Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Business, Mentoring, Office Politics, Ownership & Initiative, Personal Development, Troubleshooting

• How Well Do You Really Interview?

  I see it happen all the time. Smart, ambitious and personable twenty-somethings put together powerful resumes, and get invited on half a dozen interviews. But then, at the in-person meetings themselves, something goes wrong. Either they’re unprepared Read More... Posted Friday, March 02, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Business, Handy Resources, Job Hunting, Personal Development, Work

• CollegeRecruiter.com Blogswap: Everyone Loves a Free Lunch

  Over the next few months, we’re going to be doing a blogswap with CollegeRecruiter.com . This means that while I will still continue to post several times a week, you will also be treated to the wise musings of guest career bloggers. We’re kicking things Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 7:30 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, Business, Job Hunting, Personal Development, Work

• Grad School is Not Always the Answer

  Yesterday on Good Morning America, workplace correspondent Tory Johnson answered questions from new grads about to enter the workforce. One 2005 MBA grad from Chicago lamented her difficult job search, saying that she's between a rock and a hard place. Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:00 PM by AlexandraLevit | 3 Comments Filed under: Career Change, Continuing Education, Business, Job Hunting, Personal Development

• The MBA Goes Renegade

  Seth Godin has posted on a printable manifesto circulating around the Internet called The Personal MBA . Josh Kaufman is a twenty-something brand manager at consumer product powerhouse Proctor & Gamble. The premise of the document is that aspiring Read More... Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Continuing Education, Entrepreneurship, Business, Personal Development