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Job Search Tips for New GradsBy Jason Alderman

To the roughly 1.6 million college graduates in the

class of 2014: You have my heartiest congratulations – and my sympathies. I gradu-ated during the early 1990s recession when finding a decent job was very difficult, so I have an inkling of the challenges many of you now face.

Although the job-search technology available has changed considerably since then, as someone who is now on the other side of screen-ing candidates, I can tell you

many of the underlying principles for waging a successful search remain the same. Let me share a few:

Stand out from the crowd. You’ll probably be competing with dozens, if not hundreds, of applicants for most jobs, so:

Tailor your resume and cover letter to highlight edu-• cation, skills and experience relevant to the position – check out Monster.com’s Resume Center for writing tips.

If your work history is brief, play up education high-• lights, volunteer or internship positions, awards, orga-nizational memberships, etc.

Have strong references – and make sure they’re willing • to speak or write a letter of recommendation on your behalf.

Proofread everything carefully and ask a trusted ac-• quaintance to review.

Before applying, research the company to make sure it’s a good fit. If you do get called for an interview, kick it up a notch:

Make sure you understand the company’s products, • services and customer base.

Examine their business structure and how your poten-• tial department fits in.

Research competitors so you understand the business • environment in which they operate.

Investigate their social media presence for clues on • how they interact with customers.

Employers are forced to do more with fewer resources, so

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When Brittney Brunson was 7 years old, she wanted someone to draw her doll for her. The recent graduate of John Marshall High School had already asked her three older brothers. It wasn’t until she asked her father, Robert Brunson Jr., to draw it that her passion for art was born.

“My brothers couldn’t do it the way I wanted them to, so I asked my dad to do it and I saw how he could do it. I wanted to be able to draw like him,” Brittney said. However, he couldn’t keep teaching her, because he developed arthritis. “He told me one day I would have to learn how to do it on my own, especially if I want it the way I want it. No one could make it the way I want it unless I do it myself.”

That lesson was the first step in a long journey of artistic expression for Brittney. She said she began drawing cartoons at first, figures like Charlie Brown that have no neck so it was easy to draw. When she got to middle school age, she said she began drawing from pictures. “You’d have to draw houses and venues. One picture that I drew was a portrait of Italy.”

Drawing venues was her favorite for a while until she started drawing portraits of people. Her great-grandfather died last year, and her father passed away this past March. She said drawing por-traits helped her cope with the pain. “Every time someone passes away, that’s one of my best ways of closure. They knew how much I loved to draw and I would be able to give it to either the wife or the son of my relatives and it also made me feel better.”

Drawing also acted as therapy for Brittney. “With drawing, you don’t have to necessarily connect ev-erything. It can be so abstract and so crazy, but someone will find it so beautiful. I find it therapeutic, because art has so many meanings that I can basically draw a circle on a piece of paper and no one will understand what it means, but there will be so many different meanings to it. That’s the one thing I like about drawing, that it’s not completely defined.”

It’s because of this passion and the inspiration from her father that Brittney will be attending Old Dominion University in the fall with a major in studio art. She hopes to someday use her talents to become a teacher so that she can teach art to middle school students, where she believes the stu-dents are in the prime of their creativity.

While many people have told her that artists do not need to attend college, she’s going to ODU for her father, because he always told her that if she went to college she would be set for life. “Even though he’s not able to see me graduate or see me off to college, he pushed me far enough that I have the resources to be able to continue my education,” Brittney said. “He said at least get a degree. He said I could go off in the world and draw, but that I at least needed to have a degree so that he knows that I’m taken care of.”

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College of Interest: Old Dominion University

Major Community Service: Monument Avenue 10k

Strong Interests: Dancing, drawing, making people laugh

Favorite Activity: Playing video games, tennis, drawing

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Tips to Keep Kids Learning and Prevent ‘Summer Slump’StatePoint

“No more pencils, no more books” is a familiar summer refrain. But make sure your youngster doesn’t take those words too seriously.

All students -- regardless of socio-economic status -- lose approximately 2.6 months of grade level equivalency in mathematical computation over summer, according to a Johns Hopkins study. The study also concluded that low-income students experience significant losses in reading comprehension and word recognition while on break.

This pattern of academic regression has been dubbed “summer slump.” Fortunately -- for proactive parents -- these quick-and-easy tips can help stem its tide.

Watch Your LanguageYou’ve probably admonished your son or daughter with this phrase, but when it comes to summer learning, take heed of it yourself. When kids are enjoying vacation, they may not want to hear words like “school,” “educational” or “assignment.” Try using words like “explo-ration,” “adventure” and “discovery” instead.

Make Learning FunRemember when you had to take a spoonful of cough medicine and your mom or dad would let you wash it down with something sweet? For kids, summer learning can be a bitter pill to swallow, but it tends to go down more easily when paired with a fun activity.

The National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), for instance, has created a program called Camp Wonderopolis, a digital platform aiming to harness the spirit of exploration and adven-ture captured by traditional summer camps.

After registering at www.Wonderopolis.org/camp, kids can wend their way through six science-themed tracks and 42 individual lessons, all of which can help combat the dreaded “summer slump.” For parents who want to keep kids active during the summer months, Camp Wonderopolis also features hands-on offline activities.

“The key is to make learning feel like an extension of their vacation,” says NCFL Vice President Emily Kirkpatrick. “Camp Wonderopolis seeks to tap into a child’s natural feelings of wonder and curiosity, allowing learning to occur organically.”

Learn TogetherWhy should kids spend the summer learning while mom and dad get off the hook? It’s easier to get cooperation when learning is a shared experience, so dust off some books you never got around to reading and share them together.

Power of ChoiceOftentimes, kids rebel against schoolwork simply because it’s obligatory. Their teachers as-sign books to read and problems to solve without their input, and set hard deadlines for when such work must be completed. Put your child in the driver’s seat over summer by letting them tell you what they’d like to learn.

Instead of mapping out a strict plan, take a trip to the bookstore and let kids pick out books. Many young people are invigorated by this sort of freedom and may even choose something more challenging than you would have selected.

There are plenty of strategies that will keep your kids learning over summer. Approach the subject tactfully and your youngster will have a leg-up when it’s time to head back to school.

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What’s in a name? When that name is one held in high re-gard, the benefits can be quite lucrative. Doors open, giv-ing you a pathway to success, that have less to do with your ability and more to do with the unmerited favor your good name brings with it. Conversely, anti-social and abhorrent behavior and actions by those whose name is shared by others are often adversely affected, their reputation sul-lied, and personal integrity questioned simply because they are related to the offenders by family name.

We were taught that we represented our family every time we left the house. “You are not your own.” Our parents would constantly remind us. “You belong to us.” We car-ried the responsibility of upholding the “good name” upon which we stood. Many of the choices I made or didn’t make throughout my lifetime were because I was considering how that decision would affect my family, both immediate and at-large. I felt a sense of responsibility to the name I

carried and the people I represented. I never wanted to be an embarrassment or disap-pointment to those who had worked so hard to accomplish so many things in the face of such insurmountable odds. They passed to me the pricelessness of their “good name” and I had the enormous responsibility to carry it forward with honor and integrity so that when I passed it on, it would be even more valuable than it was when it was given to me. It is called legacy, and a positive one begins with a good name. What’s in a name? More than you know.

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“ Do not damage my good name!” is what my father and mother used to say. They had invested consider-able time and energy in building a solid reputation

of unquestioned integrity in and around the small north-eastern city where we lived. The legacy of a “good name” is something that my siblings and I have inherited from our parents and their parents before them. It is a legacy that we have purposefully passed on to our own children along with the understanding of the tremendous respon-sibility each one of them has in honoring the legacy of that inheritance.

Through their heinous actions, Adam Lanza, the shooter in the Sandy Hook massacre and Elliott Rodger, the shooter in the University of California Santa Barbara killings have forever been branded as murderers, and in the process they have denigrated the names and reputations of the families that claim them. People like Donald Sterling and Cliven Bundy, through their actions, have besmirched the status and standing of their fam-ily name. By association people will, both through implication and direct inquiry, ques-tion the racial and social beliefs of those who are closest to Bundy and Sterling. Monica Lewinsky’s name will forever be tied to lewd conduct unbecoming both the young woman herself and the Office of the President with whom she consensually acted however unfair that characterization might be.

The family and friends of the aforementioned people have been singed with the embar-rassment, unfortunate affiliation, and notoriety their family name has wrought due to the actions of their relatives, whether or not they were close or estranged. Shame and regret are difficult emotions to bear largely because of the state of helplessness and hopeless-ness in which they leave us.

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Whether they pay full price, pay a reduced rate, or it is free, students have lunch as a resource to them at school. There are even after school programs where children are able to get meals late in the day. How-

ever, when summertime comes around and school is let out, parents who rely on these meals to feed their children have a summer-long dilemma to face. In a part-nership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Virginia Department of Health, FeedMore is working to take control of this situation with its Summer Feeding Program.

This service is free and Hope Kestle, the Children’s Program Manager of FeedMore, said the only requirement is for the children to be under 18. She said FeedMore will work with 48 food service sites this summer. “Nutrition is important not only for bodily growth but for brain development, Kestle said. “When school’s out, it’s very critical that kids still have access to healthy nutrition and a place to go to be able to have a meal.”

Media and Public Relations manager of FeedMore, Jeff Baldwin said FeedMore is one of several organizations who will participate and aid communities with sum-mer feeding programs across the commonwealth. Through their community kitch-en, FeedMore will prepare lunches every day and distribute pre-prepared break-fasts of shelf-stable breakfast items. “We all know that kids rely on nutritious food to develop mentally, to develop physically, so to know that without a program like Summer Food Service by FeedMore, these kids have the potential to go hungry in the summer months,” Baldwin said. “They don’t have that access to the same food they do while they’re in school.”

Depending on how capable parents are on different days of the week, Baldwin said a certain amount of meals are prepared and the different sites help determine if they need to raise or decrease the number of meals the site is receiving. He said last year over 152,000 meals were distributed. Some of the sites serve only break-fast, some serve only lunch, and sites can be added over the summer. Most of the sites are open enrollment for any child under the age of 18. A closed enrollment site would be something such as the Higher Achievement Programs of Richmond. “These are kids of working class families who struggle, who live paycheck to pay-check, and so we need to do everything we can to ensure that these kids can grow up to be productive members of the Richmond community,” Baldwin said.

Baldwin said FeedMore, which is the core form of relief agency in central Virginia

and operator of a community kitchen and Meals on Wheels, is meant to serve fami-lies, children and seniors who go hungry every day. “We partner with a network of partner agencies through our 31 county footprint. We have about 330 partner agencies that we work with to try and ensure that people have food on their tables or people may otherwise go without,” Baldwin said about the organization. As a member of the Feeding America partner network and with USDA, Baldwin said this is a national program that has been happening locally for at least 20 years. The Summer Feeding Program is what he called an extension of FeedMore’s Kid’s café program which is an after school feeding program that sometimes is the last meal a child can get in a day.

The Summer Feeding Program does get funding through USDA reimbursements, donations, and volunteers, but he said they need more support. He said in Vir-ginia one in seven people, about 205,000 individuals, struggle to put food on the table. “We can only change that if we all do that together and all pitch in and make sure that our neighbors in need have food on their tables; it’s such a basic human thing, and we can all work together and really help these people get back on their feet,” Baldwin said. “We can build the community together by working to make sure these people have food.”

One of the sites to work with FeedMore this summer is Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club in Churchill. Communications director of the Salvation Army of Central Virginia, Matt Pochily said the Boys and Girls Club has about 100 to 115 children come every day. He said the club is open five days a week and has been working with FeedMore for at least ten years. With the help of FeedMore, he said it is impor-tant they get a meal because they are there until almost seven every night. “During the summer, it’s almost more important that we have food for the children that are there because a lot of these children who are coming to the summer camps would be receiving free or discounted meals at school, and now that they’re home and school’s out, those meals are not there,” Pochily said.

Pochily said the communities’ support of programs such as the Summer Feeding Program helps keep the children with free or reduced lunches nourished and helps take some of the burden off of parents who would normally worry over how to feed the children over the summer break. “For them to be able to come to the club, where they can participate in educational and recreational activities, and still be able to get the meals and nourishment that they need to participate to stay healthy and engaged in the activities is huge.”

Food sources for children in the summer


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Whether they pay full price, pay a reduced rate, or it is free, students have lunch as a resource to them at school. There are even after school programs where children are able to get meals late in the day. How-

ever, when summertime comes around and school is let out, parents who rely on these meals to feed their children have a summer-long dilemma to face. In a part-nership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Virginia Department of Health, FeedMore is working to take control of this situation with its Summer Feeding Program.

This service is free and Hope Kestle, the Children’s Program Manager of FeedMore, said the only requirement is for the children to be under 18. She said FeedMore will work with 48 food service sites this summer. “Nutrition is important not only for bodily growth but for brain development, Kestle said. “When school’s out, it’s very critical that kids still have access to healthy nutrition and a place to go to be able to have a meal.”

Media and Public Relations manager of FeedMore, Jeff Baldwin said FeedMore is one of several organizations who will participate and aid communities with sum-mer feeding programs across the commonwealth. Through their community kitch-en, FeedMore will prepare lunches every day and distribute pre-prepared break-fasts of shelf-stable breakfast items. “We all know that kids rely on nutritious food to develop mentally, to develop physically, so to know that without a program like Summer Food Service by FeedMore, these kids have the potential to go hungry in the summer months,” Baldwin said. “They don’t have that access to the same food they do while they’re in school.”

Depending on how capable parents are on different days of the week, Baldwin said a certain amount of meals are prepared and the different sites help determine if they need to raise or decrease the number of meals the site is receiving. He said last year over 152,000 meals were distributed. Some of the sites serve only break-fast, some serve only lunch, and sites can be added over the summer. Most of the sites are open enrollment for any child under the age of 18. A closed enrollment site would be something such as the Higher Achievement Programs of Richmond. “These are kids of working class families who struggle, who live paycheck to pay-check, and so we need to do everything we can to ensure that these kids can grow up to be productive members of the Richmond community,” Baldwin said.

Baldwin said FeedMore, which is the core form of relief agency in central Virginia

and operator of a community kitchen and Meals on Wheels, is meant to serve fami-lies, children and seniors who go hungry every day. “We partner with a network of partner agencies through our 31 county footprint. We have about 330 partner agencies that we work with to try and ensure that people have food on their tables or people may otherwise go without,” Baldwin said about the organization. As a member of the Feeding America partner network and with USDA, Baldwin said this is a national program that has been happening locally for at least 20 years. The Summer Feeding Program is what he called an extension of FeedMore’s Kid’s café program which is an after school feeding program that sometimes is the last meal a child can get in a day.

The Summer Feeding Program does get funding through USDA reimbursements, donations, and volunteers, but he said they need more support. He said in Vir-ginia one in seven people, about 205,000 individuals, struggle to put food on the table. “We can only change that if we all do that together and all pitch in and make sure that our neighbors in need have food on their tables; it’s such a basic human thing, and we can all work together and really help these people get back on their feet,” Baldwin said. “We can build the community together by working to make sure these people have food.”

One of the sites to work with FeedMore this summer is Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club in Churchill. Communications director of the Salvation Army of Central Virginia, Matt Pochily said the Boys and Girls Club has about 100 to 115 children come every day. He said the club is open five days a week and has been working with FeedMore for at least ten years. With the help of FeedMore, he said it is impor-tant they get a meal because they are there until almost seven every night. “During the summer, it’s almost more important that we have food for the children that are there because a lot of these children who are coming to the summer camps would be receiving free or discounted meals at school, and now that they’re home and school’s out, those meals are not there,” Pochily said.

Pochily said the communities’ support of programs such as the Summer Feeding Program helps keep the children with free or reduced lunches nourished and helps take some of the burden off of parents who would normally worry over how to feed the children over the summer break. “For them to be able to come to the club, where they can participate in educational and recreational activities, and still be able to get the meals and nourishment that they need to participate to stay healthy and engaged in the activities is huge.”

Food sources for children in the summer By: Janeal Downs

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Jurisdiction SiteName Start Date End DateBreakfast Start

TimeLunch Start

TimeAddress City ZipCode

Charles City Co. Charles City Elementary School 6/23/14 8/8/14 9:00 AM 12:00 PM 10049 Courthouse Road Charles City 23030

Chesterfield Co. Providence Middle School 7/7/14 7/31/14 9:00AM 12:00PM 900 Starlight LaneNorth Chesterfield

23235

Colonial Heights Omega II 6/23/14 8/22/14 9:00 AM 12:00 PM 3424 Boulevard, Suite BColonial Heights

23834

Henrico Co. A Child is Born 6/23/14 8/22/14 7:30 AM 12:00 AM 2696 Williamsburg Road Richmond 23231

Henrico Co. Coventry Gardens 6/23/14 8/29/14 9:00 AM 12:00 PM 211 Newbridge Circle Richmond 23223

Henrico Co. Freeman High School 8/1/14 8/19/14 n/a 10:15 AM 8701 Three Chopt Road Henrico 23229

Henrico Co. Henrico Arms Connect 6/23/14 8/22/14 10:00 AM 1:00 PM 1566 Edgelawn Circle Richmond 23231

Henrico Co. Henrico High School - June-July 6/23/14 7/31/14 n/a 3:30 PM 302 Azalea Avenue Henrico 23227

Henrico Co. Henrico High School - August Only 8/4/14 8/26/14 7:00 AM 1:00 PM 302 Azalea Avenue Henrico 23227

Henrico Co. Highland Springs High School 8/4/14 8/28/14 n/a 11:00 AM 15 S. Oak AvenueHighland Springs

23075

Henrico Co. Newbridge Childcare Center 6/23/14 8/21/14 8:30 AM 12:00 PM 5807 Nine Mile Road Richmond 23223

Henrico Co. Oakland Connect 6/23/14 8/29/14 9:30 AM 12:00 PM 1400 Old Bronze Rd Henrico 23231

Henrico Co. Oasis 6/23/14 8/28/14 9:00 AM 12:00 PM 2605 Dumbarton Rd Henrico 23228

Henrico Co. Richfield Place Connect 6/23/14 8/22/14 10:00 AM 1:30 PM 6001 Grammarcy Cir Richmond 23227

Henrico Co. Shannon Connect 6/23/14 8/21/14 9:00 AM 12:00 PM 600 Windomere Ave. Richmond 23227

Henrico Co. St. Paul's Baptist Church 6/23/14 8/20/14 8:30 AM 11:30 AM 4247 Creighton Road Richmond 23223

Hopewell Hopewell High School 6/23/14 8/29/14 8:30 AM 11:45 AM 400 S. Mesa Avenue Hopewell 23860

Petersburg Emmanuel Worship Center 7/7/14 8/22/14 9:30 AM 12:15 PM 236 Grove Ave Petersburg 23803

PetersburgJoy and Love Daycare and Trinity Christian Academy

6/23/14 8/22/14 9:30 AM 12:30 PM 233 Halifax Street Petersburg 23803

Petersburg Petersburg Boys & Girls 6/23/14 8/15/14 8:30 AM 11:30 PM 816 E Bank Street Petersburg 23803

Richmond 5th Street Baptist Church 6/23/14 8/27/14 8:30 AM 11:30 PM 1302 Victor Street Richmond 23222

Richmond AES Metropolitan Day School 6/23/14 8/29/14 9:00 AM 12:00 AM 2824 North Ave Richmond 23222

Richmond Anna Julia Cooper 7/7/14 7/25/14 8:00 AM 12:15 PM 2124 N. 29th St Richmond 23223

Richmond Capital One Boys & Girls 6/23/14 8/15/14 8:00 AM 12:00 PM 3601 Branch Ave Richmond 23222

Richmond Central Boys & Girls 6/23/14 8/15/14 8:30 AM 12:00 PM 2601 Kensington Ave Richmond 23220

Richmond Class A Performing Arts 6/23/14 8/22/14 8:00 AM 12:00 PM 6335 Janhke Road Richmond 23225

Richmond Destination Discovery 6/23/14 8/15/14 8:00 AM 12:00 PM 5515 Bryce Lane Richmond 23224

Richmond Fairfield Boys & Girls 6/23/14 8/8/14 9:15 AM 12:30 PM 2506 Phaup Street Richmond 23223

Richmond Fifth Baptist Church 6/23/14 8/29/14 8:00 AM 12:00 PM 1415 West Cary Street Richmond 23220

Richmond Formative Years 6/23/14 8/29/14 7:30 AM 11:30 AM 4208 Chamberlayne Ave Richmond 23227

Richmond Kindom Village 6/23/14 8/22/14 8:00 AM 11:30 AM 5263 Warwick Road Richmond 23224

Richmond Luther Memorial School 6/23/14 8/8/14 10:00 AM 12:00 PM 1301 Robin Hood Road Richmond 23227

Richmond Mary and Frances 6/23/14 8/8/13 8:45 AM 12:00 PM 120 S Linden Street Richmond 23220

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Private/public partnerships are promoted as a collaborative way to bring people and resources together across sectors. A recent example is the development of senior housing in San

Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point community. We are proud to be affiliated with this project and have witnessed the many twists and turns it has taken over the years. We asked Cathy Davis, executive director of the Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services, Inc. (BHPMSS) in San Francisco, CA to share the specifics of her part-nership so you imagine what a partnership could look like for your organization or institution. Her story is specific to her community: your story will be specific to yours.

We started our interview asking Davis to share the importance of the senior housing being built. “The new senior housing will make it possible for seniors to age in a secure and familiar place -- their own community -- close by to friends and family. The housing is part of our vision for an Aging Campus, a concept that is already reflected in many of our current programs,” she began. “When fully completed, our new supportive housing and state-of-the-art senior center will offer Bayview seniors everything necessary to make their lives comfortable and fulfilling, including: affordable housing, a safe and nurturing environment; a wide choice of planned activities (recreation-al, spiritual and educational); special events; preventive healthcare services; and excellent daily nutrition. We will continue the exceptional level of care for which BHPMSS is already well known.”

The project had multiple partners. It was initiated by long-term BHPMSS executive direc-tor Dr. George Davis – Cathy Davis’ husband –who was a community organizer, gerontolo-gist, and political strategist. He had a vision for what he wanted and was willing to tell

everyone about it. He enrolled the board of directors, staff, all the city officials, politicians, and the community at large in cre-ating the “Aging Campus”.

Cathy Davis shared the details with us: “Our developer became our partner because of their respect for community building. As a for-profit developer they work with community nonprofits, rather than compete with them. Our relationship with the City is one of advocate and funder. We attended meetings, workshops and listening sessions to advocate for what was needed in our community. City funders utilize a community process and you have to be willing to play the game, the way it is played. The City benefits from a large community process that includes stake-holders and points the way. They want to fund popular ideas that have widespread support and solve a problem.”

Just a reminder: “A private/public partnership benefits all par-ties working together for a common purpose that ultimately

benefits the intended clients,” Davis extols. “Each party has their own interest that has to be served in order to move forward. Collectively you have to be able to work as a team.”

Next week: Accountability and trust

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they seek employees who are focused, polished and willing to work hard. I’ve spoken to nu-merous hiring managers who say many candidates they see don’t convey those qualities. A few tips:

Google yourself. Review your social media footprint and remove photos or other mate-• rials that portray you unprofessionally.

Show up – on time – for interviews dressed appropriately, with copies of your resume, • work samples and any requested materials.

Be prepared to answer a barrage of questions about yourself and how you’d react in • different situations. (Monster has a great list of potential interview questions.)

Make sure you can back up any claims made on your resume or during interviews.•

Register with job search engines where you can apply for jobs and make yourself visible to potential employers and recruiters. Popular sites include Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com, LinkedIn, AfterCollege.com and LinkUp.com.

Landing a good job can take months or even years, so be persistent and tap all available resources. For example:

Contact your school’s career office to see which services are still available to you as a • recent graduate. Many will help by reviewing your resume, conducting practice inter-views and connecting you with alumni volunteers willing to meet for informational interviews.

Build and maintain a profile on LinkedIn. Many employers and recruiters go there first • when looking for suitable candidates. Also, join LinkedIn groups for your field of inter-est and partake in their discussions.

Contact and join professional organizations in your field. Weddles.com provides links • to thousands of professional organizations.

Many companies use automated tracking systems to scan incoming resumes for skills • and job-appropriate key words before a human will ever see them. Make sure your resume includes these key words – provided your experience is relevant, of course.

Bottom line: You worked hard to earn your degree. Unfortunately, you may have to work equal-ly hard to get your career going, so take advantage of the available tools – and good luck.

Jason Alderman directs Visa’s financial education programs. To Follow Jason Alderman on Twitter: www.twitter.com/PracticalMoney.


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