Comments on: 4 (Realistic) Dream Jobs and How to Get Them. http://www.top-colleges.com/blog/2009/09/17/dream-jobs/ College Preparation Tips, Career College Advice, College Degree Programs & more! Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:51:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alex http://www.top-colleges.com/blog/2009/09/17/dream-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-1652021 Alex Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:43:03 +0000 http://www.top-colleges.com/blog/?p=31331#comment-1652021 Reading this article was extremely helpful in my job search! As a recent college graduate people will offer a lot of advice on how to land your dream job, but this article highlights some of the pertinent details many people may overlook. Although you may be in the right major for the field that interests you, if you do not have the appropriate skill set and background you are at a disadvantage for landing a job. If you are an English major but do not know how to use Adobe Pagemaker, for example, you will have a more difficult time trying to get that highly coeveted job at a magazine. Understanding industry-specific language, programs and atmosphere is crucial as well. Not only do you want to impress with your experience, but you want to appear as though you will be a great fit at that specific company as well. Intern, intern, intern. Interning is one the best ways to garner the necessary experience to land your dream job. It gives you an idea of what kind of cultures exist at different companies and what kind of environment will be right for you. Getting a feel for the day-to-day rhythm of you desired field is a valuable asset in understanding how that industry works. Above all, keep in touch with your contacts! Most people are more than happy to help someone they know as a dedicated and enthusiastic intern, whether it be to offer advice or pass on your name and resume. Keep up with them no matter what! You never know when a contact will come in handy....good luck! Reading this article was extremely helpful in my job search! As a recent college graduate people will offer a lot of advice on how to land your dream job, but this article highlights some of the pertinent details many people may overlook. Although you may be in the right major for the field that interests you, if you do not have the appropriate skill set and background you are at a disadvantage for landing a job. If you are an English major but do not know how to use Adobe Pagemaker, for example, you will have a more difficult time trying to get that highly coeveted job at a magazine. Understanding industry-specific language, programs and atmosphere is crucial as well. Not only do you want to impress with your experience, but you want to appear as though you will be a great fit at that specific company as well.

Intern, intern, intern. Interning is one the best ways to garner the necessary experience to land your dream job. It gives you an idea of what kind of cultures exist at different companies and what kind of environment will be right for you. Getting a feel for the day-to-day rhythm of you desired field is a valuable asset in understanding how that industry works.

Above all, keep in touch with your contacts! Most people are more than happy to help someone they know as a dedicated and enthusiastic intern, whether it be to offer advice or pass on your name and resume. Keep up with them no matter what! You never know when a contact will come in handy….good luck!

]]> By: Adrienne Garriepy in Providence, RI MOST DEPRESSED STATE IN USA http://www.top-colleges.com/blog/2009/09/17/dream-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-1513551 Adrienne Garriepy in Providence, RI MOST DEPRESSED STATE IN USA Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:01:32 +0000 http://www.top-colleges.com/blog/?p=31331#comment-1513551 Look, folks, ya want a job like I did after 21 years, in a depressed state and a depressed economy? GET REAL and go into something that is hiring!! Perhaps it won't seem that great, like teaching kids in school math or science, but once you get into it, like I did, you find you love it more than you ever expected. I thought I would hate teaching kids in school but they were hiring and I tried it. MAN, was I ever totally surprised at how rewarding it was. Don't go into what seems glamorous or rewarding to you. I always wanted a job in Math or Science, preferably to be a medical doctor or opthalmologist, both glamorous jobs. Well, this teaching gig provided to be totally amazing and MUCH better than terrible hours and harrasment that doctors put up with each day from patients and peers in the hospital. All that money won't buy the happiness you deserve. Take the job with little money and you will be so happy. Teaching does provide to be a more lucrative profession than expected.. I calculated how much an hour I get subbing and it's around $21 per hour, which is great after getting NOTHING for 21 years out of work. Okay, I won't be a millionaire, but when the day ends, I leave my job behind and carry on my life. When the job begins, I leave my life behind and enjoy what I'm doing, very surprisingly to me and to my students. My students are amazed to come up to me and often say, "Gee, you seem to really enjoy this." I find all the clerical work and basically customer service I must do every day to be simply jobs I would have had to do anyway for a much lower pay as secretary or customer service representative! This job PAYS for me to do mundane tasks that I would have had to do anyway in a poor economy! Many teachers HATE the mundane office work and I'm not about to change their minds. WHY NOT? BEcause the more they hate the job, the more often they stay out and the more often I get to work and look good to my boss the various principals I work for. I'm tough with the kids in the classroom, demanding quiet atmosphere and NOT any talking. Many complain of my strictness, but I am not about to go home with a migraine after listening to alll that noise all day! They don't always understand that, but many do understand that concept when I explain that 32 voices at a whisper comes out to one large voice up front of the classroom So, IN summary. Go for the job that's hiring. IN four years, you'll be happy as a lark, while your fellow classmates are out of work trying to figure out how to pay their student loans off!! Look, folks, ya want a job like I did after 21 years, in a depressed state and a depressed economy? GET REAL and go into something that is hiring!! Perhaps it won’t seem that great, like teaching kids in school math or science, but once you get into it, like I did, you find you love it more than you ever expected. I thought I would hate teaching kids in school but they were hiring and I tried it. MAN, was I ever totally surprised at how rewarding it was.

Don’t go into what seems glamorous or rewarding to you. I always wanted a job in Math or Science, preferably to be a medical doctor or opthalmologist, both glamorous jobs. Well, this teaching gig provided to be totally amazing and MUCH better than terrible hours and harrasment that doctors put up with each day from patients and peers in the hospital. All that money won’t buy the happiness you deserve.

Take the job with little money and you will be so happy. Teaching does provide to be a more lucrative profession than expected.. I calculated how much an hour I get subbing and it’s around $21 per hour, which is great after getting NOTHING for 21 years out of work. Okay, I won’t be a millionaire, but when the day ends, I leave my job behind and carry on my life. When the job begins, I leave my life behind and enjoy what I’m doing, very surprisingly to me and to my students.

My students are amazed to come up to me and often say, “Gee, you seem to really enjoy this.” I find all the clerical work and basically customer service I must do every day to be simply jobs I would have had to do anyway for a much lower pay as secretary or customer service representative! This job PAYS for me to do mundane tasks that I would have had to do anyway in a poor economy!

Many teachers HATE the mundane office work and I’m not about to change their minds. WHY NOT? BEcause the more they hate the job, the more often they stay out and the more often I get to work and look good to my boss the various principals I work for.

I’m tough with the kids in the classroom, demanding quiet atmosphere and NOT any talking. Many complain of my strictness, but I am not about to go home with a migraine after listening to alll that noise all day! They don’t always understand that, but many do understand that concept when I explain that 32 voices at a whisper comes out to one large voice up front of the classroom

So, IN summary. Go for the job that’s hiring. IN four years, you’ll be happy as a lark, while your fellow classmates are out of work trying to figure out how to pay their student loans off!!

]]> By: Hannah O. http://www.top-colleges.com/blog/2009/09/17/dream-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-1511031 Hannah O. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:57:09 +0000 http://www.top-colleges.com/blog/?p=31331#comment-1511031 This is just the kind of article every high school graduate should read. When we are eighteen years old these are the jobs we want and more often than not, we shrug them off, go to the college that seems most convenient, and float along filling out course requirments until our next graduation. The article provides a glimpse of direction that a student can take or leave, but would be cheating themselves to disregard! I think a lot of students (myself included) think that in the end, your major does not matter. While this often can be the case, this article demonstrates just how much you can make your degree work for you, if applied correctly and actively. This is just the kind of article every high school graduate should read. When we are eighteen years old these are the jobs we want and more often than not, we shrug them off, go to the college that seems most convenient, and float along filling out course requirments until our next graduation. The article provides a glimpse of direction that a student can take or leave, but would be cheating themselves to disregard! I think a lot of students (myself included) think that in the end, your major does not matter. While this often can be the case, this article demonstrates just how much you can make your degree work for you, if applied correctly and actively.

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