As you start to evaluate prospective information-technology career opportunities, don’t think about just the job at hand, the day-to-day ins and outs and the immediate prospect of a promotion or higher salary. Think instead in terms of both your current priorities and long-term goals. While that advice could apply to any job in any field, [...]

Nate Breindel is one busy student. In addition to completing his last semester at Washington University in St. Louis with a major in marketing and psychology, he also owns and operates his own business.
“It’s especially difficult when you have three stores. There’s a lot going on. But I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything,” says [...]

Peder Nelson loves both skiing and mountain biking. So when it came time for him to decide on his major at Western State College in Gunnison, Colo., he quickly chose recreation.
“I thought I wanted to work at a ski area,” he says, explaining that he wasn’t exactly certain of what kind of work he would [...]

Start early to get a jump start on your internship and a career.
Finding the right internship can make all the difference in launching a promising new career, and not only for young people just out of college or graduate school.

But how do you find the internship that’s right for you? That’s up [...]

Should you get a full-time job after graduation or start work on an M.B.A.? The answer depends on whom you ask. Students who go directly to graduate business school insist they get a lot out of their studies without working first.
But many business-school officials don’t agree. Many M.B.A. programs require students to work for a [...]

Fear of math and muggers.
That, in a nutshell, is what Don Martin sees as his biggest obstacle to attracting more women to the M.B.A. program at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, where he is associate dean for enrollment management.
With women accounting for only a quarter of full-time enrollment, Chicago lags behind most [...]

Transition From the Student World to the Real World
Will Kiser, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Georgia in Athens, isn’t quite ready to graduate yet. An English major, he is now the variety editor for UGA’s student newspaper, the Red & Black. No stranger to the world of work, Kiser has put in time [...]

Each year, millions of Americans volunteer their time to community-service organizations. According to the Electronic Journal of the U.S. Information Agency, more than 90 million American citizens participate in volunteer activities. And in recent years, the number of corporate-sponsored employee volunteer initiatives has increased in response to the realization that they benefit employers and employees, [...]

Academics find success as corporate trainers.
Academics in search of extra cash, or just keen for a change of pace, are taking their talents to the corporate sector. The critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills they developed inside the ivory tower are highly valued elsewhere. Academics straddling both worlds say the trick is to find [...]

Should you get a full-time job after graduation or start work on an M.B.A.? The answer depends on whom you ask. Students who go directly to graduate business school insist they get a lot out of their studies without working first.
But many business-school officials don’t agree. Many M.B.A. programs require students to work for a [...]

Get tough and get what you deserve.
In today’s tough economy, you have to be a strong negotiator to get what you want. Don’t shy away from asking your boss for that raise, especially if you’ve proven your worth to the company. Bargain for that plum assignment if you can (and will) get the job done. [...]

Interning–otherwise known as the modern equivalent to slave labor–can be the most rewarding way for young students or recent grads to gain experience in a particular field. At least, that’s what the experts say. But these experts aren’t the ones sorting, collating, or filing. At what point does your intern experience fail to become its [...]

The term adventure travel gets tossed around so much these days, it’s in danger of becoming a cliche. But what exactly is it? Luckily, you don’t have to go careening down a 540-foot drop on snow skis, brave the oxygen-deprived elevations of Nepal’s Mt. Everest or risk your life rafting the roughest passage of the [...]

In the heyday of the Internet revolution, companies would go out of their way to implement unusual and outrageous benefits to lure and retain top industry talent. Employee benefits such as pet-sitting, ice cream socials, and concierge services were not uncommon in the high-tech industry. But we may be seeing the last of the days [...]

On the career path, fast food is a stepping stone most people rush to hop off. Now the industry is working harder than ever to change that.
Tired of the scramble to fill openings and the high cost of training new employees, fast-food chains are offering benefits that were unheard of 10 years ago — including [...]