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• Two Great New Books for New Grads and Not-So-New Grads

  Two new career-expert friends have terrific books out that are great companions to my latest effort, How’d You Score That Gig? Starting out, my fellow Ballantine author Pamela Skillings has written Escape from Corporate America , an extremely detailed Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Career Change, Handy Resources, Work, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• You Can't Always Get What You Want

  At the gym, I was thumbing through a new issue of Time Magazine . One of the articles was about college wait-listing. According to Time, the high school class of 2008, 3.4 million strong, is the largest in American history. As such, getting into a first Read More... Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, Professionalism, News and Politics, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Why It Pays to Be a Math Geek

  As a college student in the late 90s, I used to curse my lack of proficiency at math. Back then, the perception was that if you could master integral calculus or organic chemistry, you could be the one landing the big paycheck right out of college. Over Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Compensation, Employment Trends, Work, School

• Summer Intern Needed: Learn How a Published Book is Written

  Do you want to learn how a nonfiction business/career book is researched and written? As my summer intern, you will be responsible for screening interview candidates, soliciting questionnaires, and setting up phone discussions with the people who will Read More... Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 11:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Handy Resources, Job Hunting, Work, School

• Deciding Your Future at Eighteen?

  Last night, my husband and I were watching Northwestern campus programming on the Big Ten Network . We both graduated from NU in the late 90s, which, after seeing the profiles of a few students in the class of 2011, seems like an eternity ago. We remembered Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Personal Development, Work, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• New Episode: 30/20 Vision Podcast

  Just wanted to let everyone know that a new episode of the 30/20 Vision podcast is archived at Blog Talk Radio . This month, my partners in crime Christine Hassler (author of 20-Something, 20-Everything ) and Lindsey Pollak (author of Getting from College Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:00 PM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Life Balance, Personal Development, Work, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• How Necessary is a Top College?

  In his post about undergraduate colleges in the U.S , Seth Godin discusses the marketing hype surrounding the admissions process. Given the fact that today’s parents and their school-aged kids obsess for decades about the decision of where to go to college Read More... Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Continuing Education, Current Affairs, Personal Development, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• 30/20 Vision: New 20-Something Podcast Series!

  I am really excited to share the debut of the new 30/20 Podcast series - especially for the 20-something woman who wishes she had a couple of big sisters to clue her in on the ins and outs of life after college. The series will feature me and my fellow Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Attitude & Motivation, Current Affairs, Discovering Your Passion, Life Balance, Mentoring, Personal Development, Daily Life, Work, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Treat Work Like It's the First Day of School

  I love this post from Andrew over at Jobacle on how the first day of school is like the first day of work. Andrew has some tips for how you can use your latent school memories to get back into the workplace grind after those lazy days of summer: Get enough Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Ownership & Initiative, Daily Life, Work, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Trigger Happy at the Entry Level

  One of my favorite career writers, Annie Fisher at Fortune , received the following e-mail from a reader: Dear Annie : I never expected to find myself asking you for advice, but I'm really stuck. I was an 'A' student in college and always found ways to Read More... Posted Friday, August 31, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Personal Development, Work, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Interview with Lindsey Pollak: New Career Author

  My friend Lindsey Pollak has a new book out called Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World . I interviewed Lindsey over the weekend and thought I’d share some of her thoughts with you! Alex: How do you think college Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Discovering Your Passion, Work, School, Plans

• College Graduation = Real World? Not Exactly

  Thanks to CollegeRecruiter.com for pointing out an interesting aspect of MonsterTrak’s 2006 study of college graduates . Now while it comes as no surprise that modern college grads are moving back home in droves, it may be as shocking to you as it was Read More... Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Current Affairs, Goals, Plans, Hopes, News and Politics, School Attachment(s): http://www.lapalm-moving.com/pics/alliedtruck.jpg

• Your Career is a Journey

  I’ve recently had the privilege of speaking on a few panels on the topic of finding meaningful work. Our audiences were current college students, and I think events such as these really give undergraduates a good feel for the many different, and undoubtably Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Discovering Your Passion, Personal Development, Goals, Plans, Hopes, Work, School Attachment(s): http://www.oregonhighways.org/images/windy_road%20copy.jpg

• The Internship Is The New Entry-Level

  This week in the Chicago Tribune, Carolyn Bigda discusses the phenomena of the internship as a gateway to a full-time job. Now while this is not necessarily new, the cache of the internship has definitely increased in recent years. In fact, I was pretty Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:00 PM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Employment Trends, Job Hunting, Goals, Plans, Hopes, Work, School

• What Does the Election Mean to You?

  By now, the news has sunk in that the Democrats have taken over Congress, and everyone’s talking about what will happen next in Iraq. But what, if anything, does it mean for your earning potential? In USA Today, Sue Kirchhoff and Kathy Chu speculate about Read More... Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Continuing Education, Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Business, School Attachment(s): http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp11-7-06ddd.jpg