• Welcome to the Real World: It Takes a While to get Settled

    Welcome to the Real World: It Takes a While to get Settled

    You’ve recently graduated, congrats! You’ve been living for the past four years in a furnished dorm or a sorority house with all your friends or maybe even an off-campus house you had all to yourself with your best friends in the world! Maybe your parents paid? Maybe your loans paid? Or maybe you were able to pay from your awesome internship the summer leading up?

  • Welcome to the Real World: Choose a Good Roomate

    Welcome to the Real World: Choose a Good Roomate

    Choosing a roommate in college was easy. Your best friend, duh. But choosing your real world roommate gets a little trickier. Why? Because you’re an adult now and you need a roommate who acts like an adult. And sometimes, your very best friend doesn’t always act like one– and there’s more than your sleep and study space at stake now, it’s important things like your credit.

  • Welcome to the Real World: It’s Kinda Depressing, but You’re Going to be Okay

    Welcome to the Real World: It’s Kinda Depressing, but You’re Going to be Okay

    Life in college was pretty carefree. For the most part your friends were happy and full of laughter and smiles and funny stories. Sure there were always those times when you had to console a friends over a break-up or you had to rub another friend’s back when she failed out of orgo and realized she’ll never be a doctor. But those were minor setbacks.

  • This Post Grad Life: Unconventional Ways to Cinch the Job

    This Post Grad Life: Unconventional Ways to Cinch the Job

    I want to share the little tips that I would have never considered right out of the college starting gate. The teeny tips that sitting in class and staring at your hot professors calves will never teach you, but this crazy post-grad will.

  • Welcome to the Real World: Navigating the Awkward Moments

    Welcome to the Real World: Navigating the Awkward Moments

    So we’ve covered a lot of Real World bases in this column. From what to wear on an interview, to how to search for a job…even what to expect socially in the workplace. But one thing I’ve noticed in reading through all of your comments is that you guys want a little help navigating the really tough scenarios.

  • Welcome to the Real World: The Office is Like High School

    Welcome to the Real World: The Office is Like High School

    When I sat in the back row of my college lecture classes, wearing sweats and a free homecoming t-shirt, I day dreamed abotu office life. How I would waltz into the office in the latest J.Crew line, exchange pleasantries with my co-workers, and eat lunch with a charming male co-worker who plays footsie with me at company meetings.

  • Welcome to the Real World: What You Need to Ace Your Interview

    Welcome to the Real World: What You Need to Ace Your Interview

    [Life after college is hard. Like really hard. But it's not so hard that you should curl up in a bal…

  • How to Translate Popular Job Descriptions

    How to Translate Popular Job Descriptions

    BEWARE: Job seekers aren’t the only ones who sometimes get creative when it comes to selling themselves (i.e. resumes and cover letters that have been, shall we say, “tweaked” to make a person look like the ideal candidate). Some employers have a tendency to use verbiage that makes their open positions sound better than they really are.

  • Which Color to Wear at an Interview

    Which Color to Wear at an Interview

    Prepping for an important interview means researching the company and making sure you have smart responses to anticipated questions. It also means being strategic about what to wear to an interview. Specifically, you want to choose job interview clothes — and colors — that will put you in the best light and may give you an advantage.

  • Education or Experience – What’s More Important?

    Education or Experience – What’s More Important?

    If you were a recruiter given a choice between two candidates—one with a few years of industry experience and the other with excellent qualifications but no “real world” training—who would you choose? There’s no easy answer to this question, as there is no clear winner in the age-old debate on the importance of education vs. the value of experience.

  • What If a Potential Employer Wants to See Your Facebook Page?

    What If a Potential Employer Wants to See Your Facebook Page?

    I recently heard about an individual applying for a job who was asked by the hiring manager to bring up his Facebook page. The individual was shocked, but did so because he wasn’t sure how to refuse.