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You career is a marathon, not a sprint. But sometimes if you want to sprint the marathon then you need to do some daily training. Now that isn’t any different for your real career. It takes daily habits to build resilience, knowledge, and even grit.
Where do you start and how can you start your professional “training”? A few small daily changes can really have a great long-term impact on your overall career trajectory. Try implementing one of the following …
As college students across the country pass the one-month mark of COVID-19 quarantine, one student reflects on how she’s been dealing with her new reality. Read more here.
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The CareerEdge team is a group of students on campus who work within the Undergraduate Career Services Office. Since the team works daily with everything and anything career related, they are a great source of advice because they have seen the good, the bad and the ugly, when it comes to your career. Here are a few pieces of advice each team member wanted to share with the larger Bentley community:
Network, network, network. It’s become a buzz word not only at Bentley but in all professional fields. Sometimes it can be a bit intimidating to go up to an employer, analyst, hiring manager, or anyone else and try to ‘network’, but don’t let those nerves stop you!
Networking truly is the key to building and maintaining great professional relationships. Yes, it takes time, and yes it might feel a bit awkward at first. Nevertheless, with practice comes perfection and trust …
By Brian Moccio
Brian MoccioAssociate Director, Undergraduate Career Development Center, Pulsifer Career Development Center