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What's Your Objective? Many college career offices and some resume books are emphatic that it is vital to have an objective in your resume. The objective section is the first section after the header and states your job search or career goal. A traditional objective statement is one sentence that succinctly states your goal in terms of a position or type of company for which you would like to work.
Selling Air: Marketing Your Entry-Level Career Everything has a market. If you could go back in time thirty years and tell someone people would actually be buying water in 2005 for prices higher than gasoline, you would probably be severely ridiculed. Go back fifteen years and ...
Choosing a Career Path From the time children are old enough to talk, grown-ups persist in asking the foolish question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Most of the time, a four-year-old will answer something like “a fireman, a policeman, or a dancer”. Little children want to be ...
Career Planning Starts with Self-Assessment One of the biggest mistakes individuals make in their careers is to go aimlessly through school or work in an entry-level position with no clear direction (goals). They wait until the ...
List of interview questions for college graduates to consider when posed with an upcoming interview. Interview in style by practicing answers that address your entry-level career.

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STATISTICS ABOUT COLLEGE GRADS AND STUDENTS
(Excerpted from select Career Masters Institute newsletters.)

Grads Without Jobs: Here’s what college graduates unable to land the jobs they want will be doing, according to a HotJobs survey of more than 700 college seniors (Source: WorkforceManagement.com newsletter Workforce Management Recruiting, workforce.com): Taking a temporary job: 32%; Traveling: 21%; Interning without pay: 14%; Other: 33%

Technology Comeback?: The Information Technology sector has been viewed dubiously by college students choosing majors in recent years, with good reason. The downward spiral experienced by dot.coms led to lots of layoffs. But recent data from CollegeRecruiter.com indicates that computer science is getting hot again. For occupations requiring a two-year degree or higher, Software Engineers, Computer Analysts and Postsecondary teachers are projected to have the largest increases in employment between now and 2012. (Source: collegerecruiter.com)

College Grads On The Move: A new poll from CollegeGrad.com indicates that the new crop of college graduates is willing to go where the jobs are! 94 percent of the entry-level job seekers surveyed said they would be willing to relocate for the right position. The appetite for moving is limited for some, however. Of those who said they would relocate, about 24 percent said they would move only within their current state or geographic area. Info: collegegrad.com