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April, 2009

So you did it:  You finally land the interview.  You wear the cute suit.  You smile.  You answer all the questions.  You ask some great ones of your own.  And then BAM!  Rejection.
What happened?
How did it all go so wrong?
Is Company X just not that into you?
You have two options here:
1. You can take it personally. [...]

Ever see a job posting, that sounds too good to be true? (“Work from home part time and make $100,000!”)
Maybe something in the posting or on the website sounds too vague?  Or not quite right?
Well if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Every year, we get reports of a number of different [...]

Back before Beyonce was just Beyonce, she was in Destiny’s Child, who broke on to the scene with a song called, “Bills, Bills, Bills.” The song is written as a parable about men with wayward financial tendencies and in one line, Beyonce croons, “You triflin’, good for nothing type of brother.  Silly me, why haven’t [...]

There’s been a lot of buzz in the news about Facebook and Twitter recently.  And if you haven’t heard of Twitter – brush up – you are way behind on your social media game.  As you know, many Babson offices, Athletics, Babson MBA, Babson PR, Dean Hanno, and Ugrad CCD all have twitter accounts.  But [...]