Melissa Fluehr: Congratulations to Melissa, our Graduate Achiever Scholarship recipient! She is a psychology doctoral student at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology(GSAPP) at Rutgers University. As a student of an APA-accredited PsyD program, she is being trained in accordance with the scholar-practitioner model. The program emphasizes clinical application of evidence-based practices but […]
Mohammad Fotouhi: Congratulations to Mohammad, our Graduate Achiever Scholarship recipient! He is currently pursuing his Master’s in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, with one more semester until graduation. Mohammad’s major is in Machine Learning, and he is at the top of his class with a GPA of 4.0. During his Ph.D. studies, he was very […]
Veronica Perry: Congratulations to Veronica, our Community Service Scholarship recipient! She is a Graduate student at the University of Southern California, studying organizational communication and mental health. She has also served as President of the Southern California Communication Association (SCCA) for the past two academic years and regularly volunteers at the Trojan Food Pantry, helping […]
Utilize Job Boards It might seem like finding internships, securing the internship, and enjoying the internship is a full-time job. Yes, in many ways it is – it’s not going to be easy to find your dream internship when you are competing with everyone else looking for the same thing. However, there are some back-up […]
Be Available and Open I can’t tell you how many times I have encountered interns that are already stating what they will and won’t do at a job. One of the quickest ways to ensure a job is not offered to you full-time is to come with limitations right out of the gate. Part of […]
Build Employee Relationships As I just began to touch on above, you can always go around the traditional application process and nurture personal relationships at organizations. Of course, you are probably saying to yourself: how do I meet these people in the first place? Well, thanks to the Internet, you can nurture employee leads entirely […]
Avianna exemplifies the true Honor Society spirit by getting herself into multiple, valuable on-campus societies as quickly as possible and growing from there. Congratulations to Avianna! “Growing up in a single parent and army veteran home, I learned the value of hard work and dedication. I was raised and single-handedly supported by a strong, well-educated […]
Look the Part Yes, at the end of the day, it’s about what’s in your head and what you present as a skill-set to a company. However, as humans, we are visual creatures, which means we can’t help but form opinions based on appearances. Humans have such short imagery attention spans that we form first […]
FVSU Chapter Tabling at the Clubs & Orgs Fair
While there are so many majors for college students to choose from, there are certainly majors that give others an edge over the competition in the job market, in terms of which professions are hiring. A business degree is a stable investment and responsible for a large portion of those who are hired into the […]