We asked W. P. Carey Alumni: What is one thing you wish you would have known before starting your first professional role?
Here are the 8 tips they shared:
Take the Job With the Best Learning Program
Learn How to …
We asked W. P. Carey Alumni: What is one tip you can share to help students prepare to enter the workforce?
Here are the 10 tips they shared:
Cultivate Emotional Intelligence
Compare Yourself to Who You Were Yesterday
Complete An …
You wouldn’t leave for a road trip without a map (or your trusty GPS), so why would you embark on your career journey without a clear direction. In today’s highly competitive job market, having a clear, well researched roadmap is …
Conversations about leading with authenticity at work tend to leave a few important things out.
Some people, for instance, may interpret showing up to work as their “full, authentic selves” as reason not to maintain healthy work-life boundaries — something that …
We asked W. P. Carey Alumni: What personal branding tips do you suggest students leverage on LinkedIn?
Here are the 7 tips they shared:
Be Authentic
Get An Authentic Headshot Photo
Make Your Headline Pop
Make LinkedIn Part of Your …
Many people started down their career paths with the belief they would stay in the same field – or even at the same company – until retirement. Some envisioned their parents’ or even grandparents’ trajectory: choosing a career, landing a …
The questions are a routine part of most interviews. Why do you want to work at this company. Why are you applying for this position? Why are good fit for our culture? Yet many people stumble on the answers.
Indeed, …
Everyone wants to have their dream career, Some people have grand ambitions of an executive-level job, others want to own their own business, and some just want a job that affords them the freedom and flexibility to do more of …
I feel like an expert on this topic, raised by a librarian and living as I do in the newly annointed book reading capital of America: Seattle, at least according to this New York Times article. I use my library …
Illustration by Marian Blair
So-called “soft skills” are often viewed as less vital and less challenging to acquire than “hard skills” like crunching data and engineering software. While hard skills are important, social-impact work hangs on relationships—which means soft skills …
