Tell a story on your resume and cover letter to demonstrate your personal qualities.
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What are soft skills?
When employers are searching for candidates on Handshake, they’re usually looking for hard skills: specific competencies like Python, Spanish, or …
Searching for jobs isn’t an easy task, especially when it’s your first time entering a field or you are a new professional. I’d like to pay it forward and share a few tips that helped me secure a role in …
Ready to write a cover letter that lands you the job you want? We’ve organized the 22 best cover letter tips for job seekers in 2022 all on this page. If you follow the cover letter advice in this article, …
Scarlet Nguyen
SWE Intern @ LinkedIn, Slack | UBC ’24
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For those of you who thought I was crazily smart: I’m not. I have the average IQ score, I’m bad at math and numbers, my GPA represents a …
We get it. Writing a cover letter for every application is hard. So when you come across the words “cover letter optional” on a job posting, you might feel a weight lift off of you. After all, your application just …
It's a myth that high quality job openings are few and far between thanks to Covid. The truth is, despite the economic uncertainty created by the pandemic, there are many great openings out there. And to get them—or, at least, …
The first episode of the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary Hemingway reveals where Ernest Hemingway's famous writing style originated. Before the Nobel Prize-Winner wrote short stories and novels, he worked as a Kansas City Star reporter. The Star introduced …
When you’re first creating a document—even an important one like your resume or cover letter—you might give it a placeholder file name while you’re working on it. So if you’re job searching, you probably have at least one document named …
Illustration by Marian Blair
The. Dreaded. Cover. Letter.
We all hope to find ways to stand out during our job search, and how best to convey “I’m perfect for this job!” to prospective employers. We also know that taking the …
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Quick, easy tips to help you get on track and start ahead.
Worrying about finding a job or internship can get frustrating, which gets old fast! But let’s face it, no way wants to think about the stresses. …
