Guest Post from Gabrielle, Blogger for The Art of Applying If you haven’t already read Parts One and Two of this series on signs it’s time to look for a new job and how to tap your network to help in the process, you may want to check them out before reading this third, and final,… Continue reading
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How to Tap Your Network to Help With Your Job Search
Guest Post from Gabrielle, Blogger for The Art of Applying I’m fortunate to have learned a lot about the power of networking very early on in my career. When I graduated from college in 2006, I used the following steps to get my first job at Disney: Apply for 70-80 entry-level positions and get zero responses… Continue reading
4 Signs It’s Time to Look for a New Job
Guest Post from Gabrielle, Career Coach and Consultant; Founder of GabrielleBill.com I remember it like it was yesterday. I’d be peacefully asleep, dreaming of some blissful nonsense and then — BEEP BEEEP BEEEEEEP — the shrill sound of my old-school alarm clock would pull me from my reverie at 6:30am. I’d lay there for a… Continue reading
Recap of the 2017 SXSWedu Conference & Festival in Austin
Guest Post from Renata, Executive Assistant for The Art of Applying Hi, I’m Renata. I’m Kaneisha’s Executive Assistant, and this is my second guest post for The Art of Applying blog. Today’s post is about me and Kaneisha’s experience at the SXSWedu Conference & Festival in Austin. Last week, Kaneisha and I spent part of our work… Continue reading
The LAGRANT Foundation Fellowship
The LAGRANT Foundation Fellowship We’ve compiled information for the LAGRANT Foundation Fellowship into one convenient place (just for you!). The LAGRANT Foundation (TLF) will award 40 scholarships in 2016. Of the 40, 20 undergraduate ethnically diverse minority undergraduate students will receive scholarships of $2,500 each and 20 graduate students will receive scholarships of $5,000 each. Students… Continue reading
The David M. Rubenstein Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School
The David M. Rubinstein Fellowship at HKS As part of a series on fellowships available to HKS-ers we’ve compiled all of the information for the David M. Rubinstein Fellowship into one convenient place (just for you!). (Note: We are not affiliated with Harvard in any way, and make sure to double check any of the information posted here…. Continue reading
Founder Focus Part 4: my advice for aspiring entrepreneur-consultants
When do you feel most accomplished in your work? I feel most accomplished when my clients get admitted to their schools—and especially when they get money to pay for it. My clients have earned over $3.1 million in fellowships since 2010. One year, I realized that my clients had been collectively awarded over a million… Continue reading
How to Get Into Harvard, Yale, or Stanford Law School With a Low LSAT Score
How to Get Into HYS Without a High LSAT Score: As you probably expect, most students at the top three law schools have LSAT scores somewhere in the stratosphere. But roughly 25% of the entering classes at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford have LSAT scores at or below 170. Every year some students with scores in… Continue reading
Founder Focus Part 3: my least favorite part of my day
What’s your least favorite part of your day at your job? I don’t like having to reprimand my employees when they make mistakes. It’s part of the job, though, and my employees deserve to get direct, honest feedback on their performance so that they can have the information they need to improve. When it comes… Continue reading
Founder Focus Part 2: what I wanted to be when I grew up
(Continued from Founder Focus 1 – click here to read it) Why do you enjoy what you do? I’m an ENFP in the Myers-Briggs scale, so being paid well to give advice, generate ideas, and basically be people’s friend and mentor is an ideal job for me. I love to help people. I’m a writer,… Continue reading