You’ve landed your dream job, but you want to make a little more money than what was initially offered- get ready to negotiate! Salary negotiation is extremely important after receiving any job offer.

This blog from MoneyGeek offers a ten-step system for negotiating salary with an employer. Additionally, it highlights nine questions that you may want to consider when deciding how much to ask for as well as the top ten mistakes people make when asking for a raise.

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As business students, we tend to bury our heads in our work and forget to take breaks. Here are some strategies to help prevent job burnout!

Employers want to know the real you, so it’s definitely a good idea to let parts of your personality shine through in your tailored cover letters and in your interviews. Not only that, but evidence of you having a pleasant, team-oriented personality on top of all of your other impressive qualifications makes you a better candidate for almost any position. It can, however, be difficult to draw the line of where and when it’s best to show individuality and what …

Networking events are totally out of the picture now that most professional gatherings have converted to online, right? Very wrong. If anything, virtual networking events are even more important now that there are limited chances to make an impression face-to-face. Performing well at networking events can get you that internship or job, but is also very crucial for advancement in the workplace once you have started a career. So, even though Zoom-fatigue is real and spending more time looking at …

Use these tips to help find the right job for you!

Let me preface: All interview experience is valuable interview experience. The controversy begins with the idea that bad interviews are actually more essential for individuals than good interviews, as this is often so hard to believe. It is difficult to imagine that bad interview experiences are actually incredibly beneficial because of how they can make us feel unqualified or undeserving of a particular role. 

We, as candidates, are at risk of over-analyzing every possible mistake we made, such as stumbling …

These past few weeks, we have been discussing aligning your LinkedIn and Handshake profiles with your resume, as well as giving general advice for each platform. Find the LinkedIn blog here and the Handshake blog here. For any of these platforms to work for you, rather than against you, you need to make sure that your strongest weapon is updated and ready-to-use: your resume. 

Your resume is an employer’s first glance at you, typically before they even look you up …

Are you still figuring out how to leverage Handshake? Want to stand out in a pool of applicants? Handshake offers 3 quick and easy steps that can help you get hired.

Find more information on Bentley’s Handshake site.

It’s the beginning of your interview, and after a little bit of small talk, there’s usually a transition to a serious discussion about your credentials and skills for a position. This transition is almost always, “Tell me a little about yourself.” This question is so vague and, in turn, stressful. There’s a methodology that you should follow when you craft, practice, and execute the perfect Tell-Me-About-Yourself answer. You don’t want to aimlessly list off accomplishments from your resume, that’s what …

Last year employers sent students over 16 million messages via Handshake! These messages may be asking you to RSVP to an event, visit them at a career fair, etc. Read more about how you can impress a recruiter with your response below!

Find more information on Bentley’s Handshake site.