10 Promising Jobs for the Class of 2009

This summer, diplomas will be handed out, hats will be tossed in the air and college graduates will look to enter that elusive Real World they've heard so much about. It's all very exciting and nerve-wracking, in a good way.

Of course, student loan repayments are six months away and, as anyone who's turned on the news in the last year will tell you ...Read more

20 Places to Get Experience for Your Resume

Employers want experience. You don't have to look far to get it.

Experience is not limited to paid employment. It can include any co-curricular activities or accomplishments that demonstrate your knowledge, skills, and abilities. Your college campus is rich with opportunities to gain experience, including:

10 Resume Missteps that Hurt Your Job Search

Job hunting is a process that has always evolved with the times. Over the last decade we've seen it change radically as job seekers took their hunts online. As a result, many of the rules have been tweaked for this digital age.

Still, one component of the process that hasn't gone anywhere is the résumé. That one document can still be ...Read more

Better Job Searching in a Recession

Ryan Saale was in a bind. He was planning to move back to St. Louis from Santiago, Chile, earlier this year but, with the job market taking a downturn, it wasn't an ideal time to a start a job search -- much less from 5,000 miles away.

In preparation for the big change, he started doing freelance public relations for a large arts organization in St ...Read more

Microsoft Interns Sweat It Out for a Good Cause

With a cloudless blue sky overhead and Mount Rainier looming large on the horizon, a long string of bustling workers spread out at the base of an overgrown hillside near the entrance to Seward Park, attacking the dense underbrush with pitchforks and pickaxes. “Take out anything that isn’t a tree,” shouted a supervisor. “You can eve ...Read more

News from the Director

It’s no doubt that these challenging economic times have everyone on the edge of their seat, wondering what’s next. College students and graduates are no exception. But that doesn’t mean all is lost.

Even though a report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) showed that one-third of companies responding to a ...Read more

Internship is Your Stepping Stone to a Full-Time Job

It has only been a year since U.S. News published Best Careers 2007, yet much has changed. As a result, in Best Careers 2008, we've dropped five of the 25 profiled careers and added 11 new ones. (Check out our list of 31 careers with bright futures.)

We've also added a new section on Ahead-of-the-Curve Careers. These 12 careers are too nascent or n ...Read more

Spring Career Fair Draws Students and Employers Together

About 140 firms throughout the United States, from Microsoft and Eli Lilly to Washington Mutual and the CIA, fielded questions from well-dressed job- and internship-seeking UW students at the UW Career Center’s 14th Annual Spring Career Fair April 15th.

“This just goes to show that there are a ton of jobs out there, and that employers c ...Read more

What Top Entry Level Employers Want

CollegeGrad.com, released the results of its survey on what employers want most in hiring new college grads. What is most important to entry level employers – the college you graduated from? Your GPA? Or what you majored in? According to the survey results, the answer may surprise you. The criteria that the employers ranked as most important ar ...Read more