Season 1

In today's interview, our cohosts draw on some wisdom from career expert Bethany Wallace to talk about the importance of phone interviews and provide students, recent graduates, and others early in their careers with three critical tips for how to succeed in a phone interview: First, schedule the in...

Employers almost always prefer to hire candidates with experience, even for roles that they consider to be entry-level. Why? Because their risk of hiring the candidate is lower than their risk of hiring a candidate with little to no experience. But if you have no experience, how do you get it? In sh...

One of the most important skills in today's increasingly globalized economy is the ability to communicate in another language. Often, employers don't list that skill as a requirement or even preference and yet are far more likely to hire the candidate with that skill set if aware of it. Experts expl...

Almost all students and recent graduates want to be employed, but does that always mean that someone else needs to hire you? No. Another option is to become self-employed by starting your own venture. It is one thing to say that you want to start your own business. It is another thing entirely to co...

On today's episode of the From Dorms to Desks Podcast, our cohosts provide advice for entry-level job seekers on acing basic interview questions. They draw analogies to dating by emphasizing the importance of preparation, including being ready to respond to common questions like, "Tell me about your...

On today's episode, our cohosts talk about the 2024 research report, Building Better Internships. It was largely based on the 2023 National Survey of College Internships (NSCI), which investigated internship participation, quality, and equity among U.S. college students. The findings were likely of ...

There's no doubt that the red-hot job market of 2022 cooled off in 2023 and didn't fully recover in 2024. In some sectors, the job market in 2023 and 2024 was, at best, frustrating to candidates. A recent survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers forecasts a 7.3 percent increase i...

College Recruiter publishes several podcasts, one of which is the From Dorms to Desks Podcast. Listeners are mostly students, recent graduates, and other candidates who are early in their careers. Another is the High Volume Hiring Podcast, which is co-hosted by Jeanette Leeds and College Recruiter's...

For millions of years, which is as long as there have been people, those people have worked together to accomplish tasks that could not be done individually, or could not be done nearly as efficiently or effectively. But a couple of hundred years ago, employment started to change. The dawn of the In...

Volunteering doesn't pay the bills, but volunteering can lead to well-paying jobs that do pay the bills. Are you struggling to get hired even for an internship because you don't have experience? Volunteering for a non-profit or small business can get you the experience that you need to launch yourse...