So as you all know, a few months ago the CCD portlet was added to your Portal pages with the goal of grouping together important sites and insights from the Career Center in to one location.I’m going to go ahead and call out something else on the CCD Portlet that I think a lot of [...]

Workshops Teach Students How to Leverage Social Networking Activities: The Eyes and Ears of the Career Services Profession
By Peter Vogt
When CareerBuilder.com asked more than 3,100 hiring managerswhether they use social networking web sites like Facebook and MySpace to research job candidates, nearly a quarter of them said “yes”—and of that group, more than a third [...]

Norrtheastern Gives Tuition Break for Graduate, Certificate Programs
By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff

Northeastern University announced today that seniors and recent graduates will receive a 25-percent tuition break on master’s and professional programs beginning this summer.
Dubbed the “Double Husky Scholarship,” the discount is designed to give recent alumni a chance to continue their education during a difficult [...]

Craft Cover Letters, Resumes that Earn You a Second Look
by Carol Lippert Gray - October 10, 2008 
If you plan to make a job move soon distinguish yourself from the thundering herd of job-seekers that’s building in the market. You’ll need a dazzling cover letter and a brilliant resume: a total package designed to sell your [...]

Welcome back from a long weekend.  Hopefully everyone has had a nice President’s Day/Darwin’s Birthday/Valentine’s Day weekend.
 
I am going to choose to focus on the latter of these celebrations for a few minutes: Valentine’s Day.  Depending on your relationship status, most people either love or hate Valentine’s day.  But no matter where you sit on [...]

BETHLEHEM, PA—There’s little movement in starting salary offers to the college Class of 2009 compared to offers received by the Class of 2008, according to a new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).
The overall average salary offer made to 2009 bachelor’s degree graduates is $49,353—nearly identical to the 2008 [...]

You may have heard the line, “It’s better to lead than to follow.”
Well, with Twitter, it’s actually better to follow…
Hopefully, by now, you are using the new CCD portlet in your portal to access a bunch of Career Related resources. At the top of the portlet, there is the CCD Twitter stream.
Twitter (www.twitter.com) is a [...]

“What are you doing after graduation?” Don’t know yet?!?
 
Well get off your RSS!  And by your RSS  - I mean your “Real Simple Syndications” and by off I mean – get on it!  So what’s RSS?
 
I am not going to profess to be a scholar in all things digital or tech oriented.  In fact I [...]