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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How Much Does Your GPA Matter for Job Applications | Ask GTGAJ
The sixth episode of 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 we answered: How important in the presentation/layout of your resume vs. content? from Emily at…
