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When you apply for a job or internship online, there’s usually a box that asks for your cover letter (even if there’s not, most employers still ask for you to submit one). You might be tempted to ignore the box and just let your résumé speak for itself, but it’s important to give your potential employer as much information as possible about yourself in a super brief, but impactful manner.

When interacting with people who have the power to potentially employ you, you can’t help but ask the age-old question: What do I wear?? You want to dress to impress, but you also don’t want to be the person who wanders into a room full of casually dressed people in full Western business attire.

In addition to testing, preparing, and submitting the actual application, some schools (med, law, you know how it goes by now) will ask you to interview. The type of interview is really dependent on the program—sometimes you can do it over Skype or the phone. But for a lot of fancy-pants programs (especially med schools), you’ll oftentimes have to travel to the school in person.

Is LionSHARE just not cutting it? Tired of scrolling through the same old listings on NACELink? As summer gets ever closer, and your search for a summer internship gets increasingly desperate, give some of these other job-finding websites a try.

If you’re preparing to go to grad school, there are a lot of bits and pieces that you’ll need to think about, including the dreaded entrance exams. (If you thought the SAT was the last big test of your lifetime, then you probably shouldn’t have decided to go to grad school.)

As summer and/or graduation draw ever closer, you become increasingly desperate to find that perfect job, internship, or volunteer position. Sound like you? Then it's time to check out NACELink.

As summer and/or graduation draw ever closer, you become increasingly desperate to find that perfect job, internship, or volunteer position. Sound like you? Then it’s time to check out NACELink.

I've always thought the phrase "career fair" was an oxymoron: While the word "fair" brings up nostalgic memories of cotton candy and Tilt-A-Whirls, the word "career" evokes cubicles, grey suits, and fears of post-grad life. However, Barnard and Columbia's career fairs are not nearly as dreary. Instead, picture a ton of friendly faces behind tables that want YOU to work for them!