When you balance a part-time job during the school year, every summer you have to make a decision as to whether you want to keep working there. This decision is even harder when your part-time job isn’t related to your career, especially when you love your job. Jillian Jackson shares how she found her perfect job at Madewell, why she keeps coming back every summer, and the best style secret she’s learned from the last two years! Name: Jillian Jackson Job Title: Sales Associate at Madewell Location: Jacksonville, FL College: Vanderbilt University Year: Rising Senior Major: Psychology What are you doing this summer? This is the third summer I’ll be…
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How Restructuring Her Internship Search Helped this Psychology Major Get Hands On Clinical Experience
When every job in your chosen field requires grad school, how do you find a summer internship? Sarah McDonnell knew she wanted to use her Psychology degree, but hands-on clinical work without an advanced degree is really difficult to find. After applying to jobs in other fields that could tangentially apply her degree, she restructured her job search, figured out what she was (and wasn’t!) willing to compromise on, and eventually found herself a summer internship, near home, working with patients. Name: Sarah McDonnell Job Title: Adult Day Program Instructor Intern at Gatepath Location: Burlingame, California College: Wake Forest University Year in School: Rising Senior Major: Psychology What are you…
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Attending Conferences and Choosing your Summer Opportunity | Ask GTGAJ
The third episode of Ask Get This Girl a Job is here! Katie and Rosana answer your questions about networking, references, and how to approach finding your first job. Get This Girl a Job is a podcast that tries to demystify the job search by sharing the stories of recent college graduates as they made their way into the workforce for the first time! Ask GTGAJ is a special episode, that Katie and I co-host, where we try to answer your questions about your own job search. You can read more about GTGAJ here! This week talked with Priya Lingutla about the value of attending conferences and how to approach…
