I submitted a resume and as a cover letter provided a personalized project showing my ability to use the exact tech stack they were looking for. I tried my best to stand out from the sea of resumes that I knew this company would be getting. Excitedly, I opened the email, thinking (or rather, hoping) that my extra work had paid off and that it was a note to schedule an interview.
*Narrator voice* It was not a note to schedule an interview.
Read MoreThe technology boom has created a lot of opportunities for young professionals. If you're someone who is just getting into the workforce or is trying to make a career change(Hi. It's me. I'm making the career change), now is the time. We are in one of the best job markets that we have seen in over a decade. The landscape has changed, and new careers in the technology or startup worlds are more possible than ever before. There's just one little problem.
Read MoreThere are four quarters in a game of basketball. There are four distinct seasons. Companies evaluate their business performance on a quarterly basis. It even takes four quarters to make a dollar. What I'm getting at is that we tend to divide things into four, if we can. It makes sense. Take an academic year, for example. If you think of the year as a whole, things can be very overwhelming. However, when you break that down into quarters, things become a lot more manageable. The same applies to our own lives.
Read MoreLike most twenty somethings, typical conversations since leaving school go as follows: “How are you? How have you been? What have you been up to?”. For some people, these are pretty straightforward questions. For me…not so much. Especially that last one. That’s not because I haven’t been “up to anything”, but rather, because I’ve gotten the opportunity to explore quite a few different jobs and interests. For some, switching jobs more than once in a short period of time is frowned upon. But I would argue, how will you ever know what you’re meant to do if you don’t get out and explore? In fact, my recent adventure in “job hopping” has helped me learn more about myself than I thought possible.
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