What Are SMART Goals? Template and Examples

Eighty percent of New Year’s resolutions fail by February. Setting big goals can be exciting, but it’s hard to follow through when reality hits. Finding success in achieving your goals starts at the beginning of the process when you set …

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How Can You Tell if An Employer Values Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace?

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace can feel like a buzz phrase, but in practice, it’s a way to make all employees feel supported and empowered to succeed at work. Some companies do the bare minimum and post pledges on …

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Workplace Dress Codes and Transgender and Non-Binary Employees

https://www.thehrcfoundation.org/professional-resources/workplace-dress-codes-and-transgender-employees

If an employer has a dress code, it should modify it to avoid gender stereotypes and enforce it consistently. Requiring men to wear pant suits and women to wear skirts or dresses, is based on gender stereotypes. Alternatively, codes …

By Catherine Barrios - Persall
Catherine Barrios - Persall Career Coach
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Who’s Hiring? 9 Orgs Supporting People with Disabilities

Illustration by Marian Blair

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law in 1990, prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities in all areas of public life. While this landmark piece of legislation initiated significant steps to make the country more …

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20 Scholarships for First-Generation Students to Apply for in 2023

20 Scholarships for First-Generation Students to Apply For in 2023 (scholarshipinstitute.org)

By Kenar Houghton
Kenar Houghton Student Staff
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What Are Job Skills? Definition and Examples

What job skills do you need to do a role well? It depends on what career path you choose. Maybe you’ll need coding skills to be a software engineer or attention to detail to be an editor. Every career path …

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Tips for Acing Your Interview for an International Internship

I remember doing my first interview for an international internship back in 2009. I was interviewing for a marketing role at a non-profit organization in the Middle East — as a liberal arts …

By Kenar Houghton
Kenar Houghton Student Staff
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10 Tips for Writing a Great International Job Application

Writing resumes and cover letters is hard. Writing resumes and cover letters in another language is even harder. But we think that stepping out of your comfort zone to follow your dreams of working abroad …

By Kenar Houghton
Kenar Houghton Student Staff
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Interested in studying abroad? Check out these scholarships!

Scholarships for Study Abroad with IES Abroad

By Kenar Houghton
Kenar Houghton Student Staff
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Taking it Global: 6 Tips for Developing International Careers

The technological and economic advancements of the 21st century have created an era of unprecedented global integration. Between Zoom calls across the world, advanced logistics softwares, and the mass network of international flight routes, working on a global scale in international …

By Kenar Houghton
Kenar Houghton Student Staff
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