Sometimes it takes time to find a career you love. If yours doesn’t feel right, now might be the best time to make a change for the better. Over 40% of the global workforce is on the brink of resigning, …
It’s often said that you can’t choose your family—and for the vast majority of us, this is true of our co-workers too. We will always find ourselves among colleagues who have different ways of working, collaborating, and communicating, and tensions …
I grew up near a small bookstore that always stocks at least two or three times as many books as what reasonably fits in the space. So they stack all the overflow in front of the shelves, two or three …
Your resumé is the single most important document for getting noticed by a potential employer. Studies show that, on average, most hiring managers only spend about 6-7 seconds reading resumés, which makes creating an engaging resumé absolutely essential. While every …
Are you interested in pursuing a career in sports?
Langston has partnered with TeamWork Online to bring these opportunities to you through a program called TeamWork U! This includes everything for all professional and college teams and organizations from ticket …
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The Office of Career and Professional Development has many resources available for students to help you in your internship and job search. In addition, there are resources to help you find scholarships to help fund your …
Google just announced that it is rolling out a series of six-month certificate courses that will probably cost about $300 and which it and some other employers regard as being equivalent to a four-year degree that can easily cost $100,000.
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The fall semester of 2021 proved to be very successful for the Langston University Office of Career and Professional Development. As the year comes to a close, this blog post serves as a way to give a special thanks to …
There are 36 days between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. This end-of-year stretch can feel like a black hole for your job search and career. But like an actual black hole, it only seems empty. In fact, it’s packed with …
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So-called “soft skills” are often viewed as less vital and less challenging to acquire than “hard skills” like crunching data and engineering software. While hard skills are important, social-impact work hangs on relationships—which means soft skills …
