Mar31st

The Importance of Mentors By: Jun Loayza

Under: Careers, Experienced Hire, Life Coaching, Workplace

You just found a job and now it’s Day 1 of the rest of your life. Welcome to the real world. A life of waking up at 6:30 or 7 AM, putting in 8 – 12 hours a day on completing project tasks, and driving unmercifully through tons of traffic filled with other disgruntled drivers. [...]

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Mar30th

Take an unpaid internship with a startup By: Jun Loayza

Under: Now What?, Undergraduate

Students usually take the wrong approach when they begin to think about searching for an internship. The typical student looks for an internship that is paid, structured, and with a well known, brand-name company. While having a brand-name company on your resume can help you get a job during your full-time recruitment, I feel that [...]

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Mar27th

Achievements are ALL that matter on the Resume By: Jun Loayza

Under: Resume

I was reading through some career blogs today and I came across one that mentioned my friend Penelope Trunk. The blog came from Monster’s blog and the author wrote about how interviewers want to know about the nitty-gritty stuff that you did during your internship or experience. Bryan writes that the day-to-day operations of [...]

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Mar21st

5 Steps to Connecting with Your Interviewer By: Jun Loayza

Under: Experienced Hire, Interview, Undergraduate

The best interviews are conversations.  What I mean by this is that the interview was NOT in the question then answer, question then answer format.  Instead, you and the interviewer actively engaged in a conversation and you connected through similar interests outside of the work place environment.  The biggest mistake that students and young professionals [...]

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Mar19th

My Epiphany from Diablo II that started my Entrepreneurial Life. By: Jun Loayza

Under: Life Coaching, Now What?

This is the origin of the FD Lifestyle, living real life like a hardcore gamer, and I want to share it with people around to see if anyone wants to join in me in the passionate path of leveling up and completing cool quests that make a difference in this world.
So in 10th grade, I [...]

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Mar12th

The on-the-spot Interview By: Jun Loayza

Under: Interview, Networking, Personal Branding

I was reading Wendy Terwelp’s blog when I came across a post entitled Job Fairs: Matchmaking 101. Wendy puts it perfectly because in essence that is what recruitment is. Recruitment is the matching of a company with the perfect candidate.In her blog, Wendy writes that you must be prepared for a brief interview when [...]

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