By: Andrea Rice
If you are interviewing for a highly competitive position or looking for a job in a down market, you can’t afford to make these common mistakes.
1. Insufficient knowledge of key job details. At a high level, most people understand the key skills relevant for their target job (e.g. teamwork, [...]

We’ve seen many of you over the last week…but we’d like to see more of you! 
Nearly 200 of you have participated in Senior Registration, and most of those students now have full access to Babson Career Connections.  We still have one more Senior Registration session scheduled, 11:00 am -2:00 pm Wednesday Spetember 16th.  Stop by then, or [...]

The staff of the Undergraduate Center for Career Development is thrilled to welcome you all back to campus, and ready to help you jump start your job search.  
 

Seniors will need to register in order to participate in our on campus recruiting program.  We’d like all seniors to register as soon as possible.  Registration involves completing a survey and [...]

Great Opportunity to meet with some top executives!
 
The Business Today International Conference, one of the premier business conferences in the world.
 
This is an all-expenses-paid experience for college students, taking place between November 22nd and the 24th at the Grand Hyatt in New York City.  Over 70 leading executives from across the country and some of the finest students from around the [...]

“Recent reports — unemployment at a 25-year high, hundreds of thousands of jobs lost every month — are enough to make many job seekers want to hide under the covers.

Consider that in March, nearly 700,000 jobs disappeared. But now consider this: At the end of March, there were 2.7 million job openings. What tends to [...]

by Stephen VanVreede
It is hard to imagine a job seeker today who isn’t on Twitter. Like LinkedIn, it is rapidly becoming a must-do social networking tool. And also like LinkedIn, it is rapidly becoming a popular hangout for job seekers.
Unlike LinkedIn, however, Twitter moves at a strange pace. It isn’t just about adding contacts [...]

If you’ve ever seen the movie/play, “Rent,” you’ve heard the song, “Seasons of Love,” that starts with the line:
525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?  In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.
In 525,600 minutes - [...]

Navigating the Job Crisis: Have a Plan
Posted By: Carlo Dellaverson | Web Producer
CNBC.com
| 18 Mar 2009 | 03:27 PM ET
The earthquake that crushed Wall Street has now torn apart Main Street. American jobs are disappearing at an unprecedented pace. The country’s unemployment rate recently topped 8 percent – the highest it has been in a [...]

To find a job, ignore doom-and-gloom news, experts say
(CNN) — If you’re unemployed, you know it’s a rough time to be on the job hunt.
There’s a huge pool of unemployed workers out there, and the unemployment rate continues to climb.
But if you want work, you need to block out the doom-and-gloom news about the economy, [...]

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 [...]