September campus recruitment drive Q&A. Gov’t student loans are changing. Work from home job scam tips. Students are using drugs to help with studying. 10 job tweeters you should be following. Interest in the dead spikes during tough times. Obama’s education speech.
If you’re interested in networking or exchanging ideas with some of Toronto’s most creative and well-connected people, then the TEDxTO after-party is the must-attend event of the season.
Recent grad sing, “Hire Me” in a YouTube video (embedded). Arts grads tend to be more well rounded. Students are turning to downloadable textbooks. A Globe and Mail writer wishes he had gotten drunk or high with his profs. Fake Facebook groups target students.
Just in time for the back-to-school and campus recruiting season, TalentEgg.ca went live with a brand new site design and experience for students and recent grads today, September 1, 2009.
Ask yourself these five questions before deciding where you want to work. 10 phrases that kill resumés. “Why don’t you call us back?” Montreal student survival guide. Undergrad focus lets students thrive. Free e-book: “Recession-Proof Graduate”
Gen Y blog network Brazen Careerist launched again today with a new design and a new purpose: as career management tool and social/professional network for young professionals.
Unless you’re an economist, most of you have probably been asking yourself, “What’s in store for me?” Maybe you did everything you could to find a job this summer and couldn’t find anything. Maybe you just spent the last four years of your life at school and didn’t land the job you were looking for.
The almost-back-to-school edition. How to feel connected when living off-campus. Students apply for more financial aid after the summer job slump. SFU says FU to cheaters with an “FD” grade – “failed for academic dishonesty.” Back-to-school advice from a professor.
Post Grad is about a recent college grad named Ryden Malby (played by Gilmore Girls star Alexis Bledel) who’s always known exactly what she wants to do with her life and how to get there. However, like so many of her real-life peers, Ryden faces a harsh reality after graduation.
Why wouldn’t anyone want to work for these employers: they’re successful, stable and forward-thinking, right? While it’s possible each employer on each of these lists is a great place for students and new grads to work, don’t kid yourself into thinking it’s based on anything other than their advertising budgets.
45 lucky winners are attending special screenings in Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa and Toronto tonight, and the first five winners from each city also won a copy of the book Post Grad by Emily Cassel.
POST GRAD opens Friday, August 21 in theatres across Canada, but TalentEgg and Fox Searchlight Pictures are giving away free double passes to special screenings in Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton and Vancouver on Monday, August 17 at 7:00 p.m.