Tips For Nailing Your Application And Interview
To get you ready for the grueling internship and job hunt process, here are VALLEY’s tips to nailing your application and interview.
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Stop Trying to Build the Perfect Résumé and Start Doing What You Love
For many college students, outside involvements are driven by the pursuit of a ‘perfect résumé.’ Freshman and seniors alike strategically select many involvements to appeal…
College of Communications Featured Speakers You Should Check Out
Every year, the Bellisario College of Communications brings speakers to talk about their profession, successes, failures and lessons learned in their respective industry. Many times…
Make Your LinkedIn Profile Standout
Your motivation to network and refresh your résumé shouldn’t stop when your summer internship does. If you haven’t already, consider creating (or updating) a LinkedIn…
It’s Job Hunting Season
For seniors, the fall is in full swing, which means only one thing: job season. Your friends are getting jobs left and right, moving to…
Aspire to Her: A Girl’s Guide to Success
So you want to make a big splash in your career right from the start — but you don’t have any true mentors yet. What’s…
Beauty Behind Bars
Cosmetology programs have become wildly popular in quite an unexpected place – women’s correctional facilities. In some facilities across the country, women can earn certified cosmetology…
Skyping Your Way To Success
It is prime interview season and when it comes to internships or jobs, employers are currently using Skype as well as other forms of video…
Amanda Marcus: Conquering the Concrete Jungle
Amanda Marcus never worked your typical summer job … when school ended and the days turned hot, you never found her scooping ice cream cones,…
What You Should Know Before Hunting for an Internship
As spring finally comes around to State College, every student at PSU has more than a few things to stress about … but possibly the…
The Ins and Outs of Influencer Marketing
You know what an influencer is, and you’ve definitely heard of marketing, but what does the term “influencer marketing” mean? Influencer marketing, according to Paige…
LinkedIn Meets Tinder? Shapr the New Networking App
Everyone knows that networking is essential to college students, but it can also be a bit awkward. While chit-chat and small talk can lead to…
Maximize Your Winter Break with an Informational Interview
Between celebrating the holidays, catching up with friends, visiting with your family and ringing in the New Year, Winter Break comes and goes by in…
Job-Less and Graduating
As senior year comes to a close, final papers are getting handed in, friends are having celebratory parties and the last exams you might ever take are inching nearer.
Cristina Gordon’s Advice You Need to Hear Before Starting Your Career
Cristina Gordon successfully navigated her way from a college graduate without a job offer, to the founder and president of her own public relations company, C Bee PR. Here is her advice as to how to start your career off right.
PSU Career Services: Here To Help You!
Are you a student in need of some guidance regarding resumes, career counseling or recruiting? Penn State Career Services provides exceptional services for students, including…
College Crisis: Ridiculous Standards for College Students
“Just wait until you enter the real world.” How many times have we heard these words? How many times have we sat by while our parents or professors or advisors pretend like as college students, our problems are so easy compared to theirs?
How To Survive An Unpaid Internship
By now we’re all aware about how important and beneficial internships are to our futures. However, scoring the internship of your dreams might come with a catch and a lot of the time that catch is that it’s an unpaid position.
The Five Stages of Grief Applied to Internship Searching
Internship hunting is quite possibly the least fun way to spend your Sunday afternoon. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described how we feel about this perfectly when she created the five stages of grief.
Valley Mag takes on Cosmo’s Fun Fearless Life
This weekend, three of our staffers made the life-changing decision to travel to New York City to attend Cosmopolitan Magazine’s inaugural Fun Fearless Life conference. Celebrities, fitness gurus, bloggers and CEO’s were just a handful of the powerhouse career moguls in attendance of the two-day event.