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How to Become a Confident Public Speaker

Confidence is a key part of being successful in almost any situation, and it’s especially important when it comes to your professional life. One of the areas where confidence really matters is public speaking. Unfortunately, a lot of people are …

By Troy Hopkins
Troy Hopkins Director, Undergraduate Career Counseling
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Affordable housing for students heading to NYC this summer

The smartest interns in NYC all have the same address: Educational Housing Services!

 Educational Housing Services (EHS) is a not-for-profit organization that provides safe, convenient housing services to thousands of interns working to make their dreams come true, just like you.

By Kelly Collins
Kelly Collins Senior Director of Graduate and Alumni Career Services
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Bauer MBA and MS students visit HPE today!

Today, 25 Bauer MBA/MS students had the opportunity to tour HPE’s server manufacturing facility and offices in Northwest Houston.  This visit, led by Erin Reed from Rockwell Career Center, allowed students the opportunity to meet with over 2o employees, including …

By Kelly Collins
Kelly Collins Senior Director of Graduate and Alumni Career Services
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4 Common Mistakes You Might Be Making on LinkedIn (at This Very Moment)

You’ve decided to look for a new job and want to make updating your social profiles part of your strategy. That part of your plan is right on: 93% companies look for candidates on LinkedIn. Plus, recent updates to the …

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Cities projected to offer the most career opportunities in 2017

As it is in real estate, landing your dream job is all about location, location, location.

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Economists’ optimism about the most recent jobs report fell a bit short in December, when the U.S. …

By Kelly Collins
Kelly Collins Senior Director of Graduate and Alumni Career Services
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5 Simple Ways to Keep Learning After Graduation

Graduation is an exciting time. In part, because it means you’ve reached your goal, accomplished what you set out to do. But it’s also because it means at least a temporary end to tests, homework and those dreaded group projects.

By Troy Hopkins
Troy Hopkins Director, Undergraduate Career Counseling
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How to Stay Healthy When Your Co-workers Keep Bringing Delicious Food In

It happens every single year around this time: Unhealthy food starts to appear (almost at the same rate as articles about watching your waistline). I’ll admit that when I happened upon the Halloween bowl of candy last month, I couldn’t …

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The 3 Best Lessons I Learned as I Listened to Myself Bomb an Interview

A couple years ago, I picked up the phone for an initial call with a hiring manager about a job I was excited about. Five minutes later, I fixed myself a gigantic bowl of ice cream because I knew that …

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3 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Quitting Your Perfectly Good Job

Why would I quit my good job?

Even if we’re not happy, many of us stop short of leaving because of that question. If you have good benefits, decent pay, and a reasonable boss, you feel ungrateful for wanting to …

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Why Taking All of Your Vacation Days Gets You Ahead, According to Career Coaches

Although a recent FlexJobs survey notes that Millennials care quite a bit about flex time—especially as it relates to their ability to travel and take vacations—it’s often been said that this same group’s reluctant to take any time off at …

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