• Welcome to the Real World: Putting Your Dreams On Hold

    Welcome to the Real World: Putting Your Dreams On Hold

    I know how the scenario goes. They put that college diploma in your hand on graduation day, you walk across the stage with your head held high and you think, “This is it. I made it.” Fast-forward to two months later, you’re sweating bullets selling ice cream cones at the town pool’s snack bar. And they said you needed a degree for this?

  • Welcome to the Real World: The Post-Grad Internship

    Welcome to the Real World: The Post-Grad Internship

    If I were to say “post-grad internship,” would you shudder in disgust or tackle me with five different copies of your resume and a cover letter proofread by Katie Couric?

  • Welcome to the Real World: Get The Interview

    Welcome to the Real World: Get The Interview

    There are a million (give or take) articles out there on how to ace an interview and write a stellar cover letter. But there aren’t that many that tell you how to get the interview or how to make sure someone reads your cover letter. So today, we’re giving you a a few insider tips on making sure you get the interview.

  • Welcome to the Real World: The Real Girl’s Guide to Finding a Job

    Welcome to the Real World: The Real Girl’s Guide to Finding a Job

    You’ve doubtlessly heard it by now. From parents, from professors, from older friends and siblings who’ve “been there.” It’s a sobering phrase that likely enters your mind right after you envision a post-grad summer of margaritas and beach hair. Not so fast with those grand plans, girlfriend. As everyone knows, looking for a job is a full-time job.

  • Welcome to the Real World: The Do’s of Acing an Interview

    Welcome to the Real World: The Do’s of Acing an Interview

    We’re growing faster than a gangly 13-year-old girl here at CollegeCandy headquarters (well, technically our parents’, CMG headquarters) and we’re hiring up a storm. So in addition to getting to write about celebrity PDA and decorating your vagina, I also now get to conduct tons of interviews. Since I’m barely out of college myself, it’s my first time being on the other side of the desk….and ooo boy, is it an interesting experience!

  • Prepare for the Top 10 Interview Questions

    Prepare for the Top 10 Interview Questions

    Too many job seekers stumble through interviews as if the questions are coming out of left field. But many interview questions are to be expected. Study this list and plan your answers ahead of time so you’ll be ready to deliver them with confidence.

  • The Senior Files: 5 Best Books For Soon-To-Be Grads

    The Senior Files: 5 Best Books For Soon-To-Be Grads

    With graduation fast approaching, I am trying to cram in all the education and life lessons that I possibly can before I have to leave this place. I go to class, take notes, listen, and really try to absorb the teachings from all my amazing professors, teachers, and friends. However, there are some life lessons that simply can’t be expressed in a quarter long class or in a classroom at all.

  • Gradvice: It’s All About Who You Know

    Gradvice: It’s All About Who You Know

    I’ve learned many lessons since graduating from college. I’ve learned that buying a pair of shoes isn’t as important as eating dinner, that keeping in touch with friends is hard and that your first job out of college isn’t always as amazing as you think it will be. But the biggest and most important lesson I’ve learned is that networking is the key to success.

  • Gradvice: For Love or For Money?

    Gradvice: For Love or For Money?

    For those of you lucky enough to have a job already, congrats. You are well on your way to a fulfilling life doing what you want to be doing. For the rest of you, and right now that is a lot of you, you have some big choices to make. Some huge questions to answer. And the most pressing and difficult is: Take a job you love or take a job that pays well?

  • Gradvice: Making Friends After College

    Gradvice: Making Friends After College

    When you are in college it’s almost as if you have to try not to make friends. You are constantly surrounded by people and put into situations (group projects, student groups, beer pong tournaments) where forming new friendships is as easy as finding Milwaukee’s Best at a frat party; get their name, work with them a bit, then go home and Facebook them later.