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College Grads Need New Job Search Playbook

As the high season for job hunting kicks off for newly minted college graduates and they find college career centers are sadly not up to the task, Jane Horowitz, founder of Chicago-based MoreThanAResume.com and a career coach who specializes in helping college graduates land their first professional job, can offer important insights to improve their [...]

21st Century 21-Year Old or: How I Learned to Embrace $7.75 Beers

“I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.” – Red, “The Shawshank Redemption” (The following diary takes creative license in formulating [...]

Don’t Facebook on LinkedIn: Creating a Professional vs. Social Profile

By now, we all know what Facebook is, have Facebook accounts, and probably login to Facebook more times per day than we check our email. Without a doubt, Facebook is great for connecting with old friends, keeping in touch with current ones, and telling the world how drunk you were last night. However, it’s not the best venue for creating a professional network and finding a job. Enter, LinkedIn.

The Four Awful Jobs You’ll Have in College

No matter what soulless job you choose, you’ll undoubtedly learn timeless lessons: the value of an honest day’s work, the real worth of a dollar, and how incredibly rude people are to each other. And maybe it’ll teach you to be nicer to your server.

English Teacher Kryptonite: The Latent Homosexuality Thesis

My freshman year of college a gay friend highlighted for me the single most effective way to get an A on ANY English paper. His secret was, ARGUE LATENT HOMOSEXUALITY. He tossed me a link to some resources on Queer Theory, and I was on my way to a much higher GPA.

I tried it out, and as expected I got an A.

From that point on literally every paper I wrote was geared towards proving that the author was a latent homosexual. This works for a flotilla of reasons.

Why Flashcards Burn Facts Into Your Brain [Infographic]

This infographic from Course Hero breaks down how flashcards actually help you study. It shows how active recall and recognition based recall differ, it highlights the different situations in which studying with flashcards is effective, and goes into depth on the psychology of using flash cards.

Check out the infographic and head on over to Course Hero if you’re looking for some awesome flashcard resources.

The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Professors

1) Sticking around after the ability to teach is long gone (due to tenure) At some point in your college career, you’re likely to encounter a professor who really shouldn’t be teaching. Perhaps they are the only one qualified to teach a specific subject, or even worse, perhaps they’ve been relegated to teaching introductory classes [...]

Why Netflix has the Makings of Greatness (And Why it Falls Short)

People in the movie industry complain that piracy is encroaching on their profits, that home entertainment systems are decreasing box office revenues, and that the internet is the root of all evil. To a certain extent these things are true: I can say with almost complete confidence that any movie or TV show is available for streaming and downloading somewhere on the internet. The thing is, most people I know don’t mind going to an officially sponsored website to watch their TV shows. If Hulu had all the shows I wanted, I’d live there. I don’t mind sitting through some commercials to watch my shows. I think this applies in particular to most college students, who almost all have laptops, lots of free time, and limited spending money. I don’t want to download movies illegally, but if I can’t find it on Netflix, I’m not going to spend $10 to watch it once.

Questia’s “Most Valuable Professor” Competition – Nominate Your Favorite Professor

We get a lot of requests at The Campus Companion to do press releases, but most of them are garbage. However, when Questia got in contact with us about their “Most Valuable Professor” Competition we thought it was a really cool way to give some credit to our nation’s educators.

Gen Y Job Search Strategy: LinkedIn Premium – Cover Letter + Carpet Bombing

It’s hard out there for recent college graduates looking for jobs. In fact, I can say confidently that you probably won’t find a “real” job for a while. It’s an employers’ market and they have pick of the litter when it comes to applicants.

What it all comes down too is this… You have 30 other people applying for the same position you are, and if one of theme has a better resume than you they are going to get the job. Hands down.