Trying To Get Your First Job? There's A Class For That
Didn't land an internship or job this summer? Maybe next school year you could try taking a class. Many courses help with your cover letter, resume and interview skills.
by Elissa Nadworny
Jul 23, 2018
3 minutes
Look people in the eye. Smile. Shake hands. Sit up tall. Speak clearly and confidently.
That's the last-minute advice professor Paul Calhoun gives a handful of college students before they head off for a series of job interviews. The Skidmore College juniors and seniors he's talking to are dressed in suits and button-downs; dresses and heels. They stand out in a college library swimming with other finals-takers, most in sweatpants or leggings and T-shirts.
There isn't an actual job on at this liberal arts college in upstate New York.
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