All Work, No Pay: Finding An Internship, Building Your Resume, Making Connections, and Gaining Job Experience by Lauren Berger
Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want by Jenny Blake
Friday, May 25, 2012
Win a copy of Ramen Noodles, Rent and Resumes
Monday, May 14, 2012
CompareCards hosts essay contest for $2,000 to pay down credit card debt
Bet you thought your days of essay-writing were behind you--not so. CompareCards.com is offering $2,000 to the winner of an essay contest to use towards paying off debt. You can also qualify for a $1,000 random drawing.
To enter, you have to answer the question:
Contest runs till July 28th. For more details, click here.
To enter, you have to answer the question:
Why
do you need help from CompareCards.com to pay off your credit card
debt? What would you do next time to prevent getting into credit card
debt?
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Win a Copy of Ramen Noodles, Rent and Resumes on GoodReads!
Win a copy of Ramen Noodles, Rent and Resumes: An After-College Guide to Life on GoodReads.com. The contest runs until the end of May. Enter today--it's completely free!
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
NACE: Hiring up for companies visiting campuses
Ever since my book came out in 2008, it's been hard to write the kind of content I want on this blog. Why? Everywhere I look, it's doom-and-gloom kind of news for new grads.
But there are signs of hope--so I'm posting about it!
This article, After grad job slump, big hiring is back at U.S. colleges talks about companies returning to campuses to recruit soon-to-be grads. Yes, this used to happen. No, you may have not seen it. But it's on the rise.
According to a National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) survey, hiring this year is expected to rise 10.2 percent, beating out an estimate of 9.5 percent.
Companies such as General Electric, Amazon, Apple and Barclays Global are hitting up campuses, and some job-seekers are even getting multiple offers.
See? It's not all doom-and-gloom--and better yet, you don't have to wait for the company to arrive on campus. Continue to search and submit your resume--you never know what will happen as things improve!
But there are signs of hope--so I'm posting about it!
This article, After grad job slump, big hiring is back at U.S. colleges talks about companies returning to campuses to recruit soon-to-be grads. Yes, this used to happen. No, you may have not seen it. But it's on the rise.
According to a National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) survey, hiring this year is expected to rise 10.2 percent, beating out an estimate of 9.5 percent.
Companies such as General Electric, Amazon, Apple and Barclays Global are hitting up campuses, and some job-seekers are even getting multiple offers.
See? It's not all doom-and-gloom--and better yet, you don't have to wait for the company to arrive on campus. Continue to search and submit your resume--you never know what will happen as things improve!
Thursday, March 22, 2012
What will you do with your tax return?
I read something interesting today. It said that 33% of Americans will spend their tax returns, while only only 17% will pay debt with their returns.
Why is the number for spending so much higher when so many people are in debt? I know the appeal of some extra cash means you can finally get that iPad or other nifty thing. But debt is real, and it doesn't go away simply because we ignore it. (Take it from a girl who paid off all her credit card debt several years ago.)
If you get some money back from the federal government, what will you do with it? Do you plan on paying off any debt or perhaps those pesky student loans? Or is there something else you have your eyes on?
Why is the number for spending so much higher when so many people are in debt? I know the appeal of some extra cash means you can finally get that iPad or other nifty thing. But debt is real, and it doesn't go away simply because we ignore it. (Take it from a girl who paid off all her credit card debt several years ago.)
If you get some money back from the federal government, what will you do with it? Do you plan on paying off any debt or perhaps those pesky student loans? Or is there something else you have your eyes on?
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
C'mon Get Happy After College:The Happiness Blog Tour and Giveaway
This guest post comes from Bryan Cohen, author of The Post-College Guide to Happiness. He's running a blog tour and giving away copies of the book--and a Kindle Fire.
"I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace."
- Dalai Lama
The Lama
A long and loaded quote from the world's guru on happiness, the Dalai Lama. There's so much here to sit back and enjoy, there's almost nothing to add, but I'll try regardless. The Lama talks about contentment here, and I think that requires a definition. Many people think contentment is a status an equilibrium. They think contentment is that purgatorial space between happiness and sadness. I don't think that's what the Lama is going for. Contentment here means the same thing as fulfillment. Contentment is something you feel at the end of a work day, not from completing your work, but from doing something worthwhile. Being at neutral is not the same thing as being content. Being content is when your neutral state is joy and transcendence.
Making an effort to improve the happiness of others is a pure bit of happiness gold here and one that people tend to forget. External development and material goods will not make you nearly as happy as putting a smile on the face of others. The longer lasting that smile and the larger number of smiles you give to others the better you'll feel. If you can somehow make the work you do every day related to helping others, you'll feel a lasting sense of happiness.
The world is not an ideal place for happiness a lot of the time. It's a battleground full of tough situations and negative attitudes. These are the obstacles the Lama is talking about. If you spend enough of your time working on the happiness of others, however, you'll find that you have the positivity and strength to weather these complications with health and happiness. Plenty of people label success as devoting themselves to a job that pays them a lot of money and gives them material wealth. The Lama labels success as developing emotional strength from giving happiness to others.
We've all thought at one time or another that more money, a better job or nicer stuff would give us peace of mind. According to the Lama, inner peace isn't likely to be attained from money, jobs or stuff. It's a result of what you do for others.
Sit down with a peace of paper one day or once a week and come up with a few ideas of how you could connect with people and improve their lives. Maybe it has to do with charity or maybe it's simply a matter of giving your friends and partner more attention. Spread a little happiness to others each week and watch yourself reach the levels of happiness described by the Dalai Lama.
To enter the contest for a copy of Bryan's book, post a comment with your e-mail address or send an e-mail to postcollegehappiness (at) gmail.com. Bryan will draw the names at the end of the tour. Entries will be counted through Sunday, May 6th.
Bryan Cohen is a writer, actor and comedian from Dresher, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005 with degrees in English and Dramatic Art and a minor in Creative Writing. He has written nine books including his latest, 1,000 Character Writing Prompts: Villains, Heroes and Hams for Scripts, Stories and More.
"I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace."
- Dalai Lama
The Lama
A long and loaded quote from the world's guru on happiness, the Dalai Lama. There's so much here to sit back and enjoy, there's almost nothing to add, but I'll try regardless. The Lama talks about contentment here, and I think that requires a definition. Many people think contentment is a status an equilibrium. They think contentment is that purgatorial space between happiness and sadness. I don't think that's what the Lama is going for. Contentment here means the same thing as fulfillment. Contentment is something you feel at the end of a work day, not from completing your work, but from doing something worthwhile. Being at neutral is not the same thing as being content. Being content is when your neutral state is joy and transcendence.
Making an effort to improve the happiness of others is a pure bit of happiness gold here and one that people tend to forget. External development and material goods will not make you nearly as happy as putting a smile on the face of others. The longer lasting that smile and the larger number of smiles you give to others the better you'll feel. If you can somehow make the work you do every day related to helping others, you'll feel a lasting sense of happiness.
The world is not an ideal place for happiness a lot of the time. It's a battleground full of tough situations and negative attitudes. These are the obstacles the Lama is talking about. If you spend enough of your time working on the happiness of others, however, you'll find that you have the positivity and strength to weather these complications with health and happiness. Plenty of people label success as devoting themselves to a job that pays them a lot of money and gives them material wealth. The Lama labels success as developing emotional strength from giving happiness to others.
We've all thought at one time or another that more money, a better job or nicer stuff would give us peace of mind. According to the Lama, inner peace isn't likely to be attained from money, jobs or stuff. It's a result of what you do for others.
Sit down with a peace of paper one day or once a week and come up with a few ideas of how you could connect with people and improve their lives. Maybe it has to do with charity or maybe it's simply a matter of giving your friends and partner more attention. Spread a little happiness to others each week and watch yourself reach the levels of happiness described by the Dalai Lama.
To enter the contest for a copy of Bryan's book, post a comment with your e-mail address or send an e-mail to postcollegehappiness (at) gmail.com. Bryan will draw the names at the end of the tour. Entries will be counted through Sunday, May 6th.
Bryan Cohen is a writer, actor and comedian from Dresher, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005 with degrees in English and Dramatic Art and a minor in Creative Writing. He has written nine books including his latest, 1,000 Character Writing Prompts: Villains, Heroes and Hams for Scripts, Stories and More.
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