No matter what you’ve done before in school, this time you put yourself to work. Make professors your mentors, talk to them during office hours, class times, look at case studies they present as catapults toward the career that you want. Every time you are assigned a project or a paper even if it’s a group effort, choose something that will provide you research information and introductions to the companies that you eventually want to join. You might interview the heads of such companies, or ask to write a review of their advertising or marketing.
Do not ignore your classmates or the other students. You more than likely will have them in your life as colleagues even bosses. Talk to the career center while you’re a student to line up interviews for you during the course of your program, unless your current company is paying your tuition. Understand that the career center can be a great connector throughout the years that you spend in school.
Remember, if you are out of sight you are out of mind. This is no time to pick petty fights with the professor or the program about what’s fair or what’s required. But learn to work the system for what you think you need. Always have your end goal in mind. This pro-activity is a starting skill of a great career.
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It’s quite a job for a student to do networking if they haven’t been too social. But now, it’s possible to connect with other students, mentors, and potential employers in the internet. Think Facebook, LinkedIn and Monster combined in one. A site that offers such is nuresume http://www.nuresume.com-a student resume network where students get to build their free resume online, brand their portfolios, post jobs wanted ads, and a whole lot more. A head’s up for students out there who are interested in building that online professional identity+networking.
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