I gained a reputation for being a tough interviewer at the bank where I worked. It was a slow evolution. I remember always being considered so nice. Oh, maybe that was high school.

My interviewing days stretched back to working as a financial analyst just out of college. After being at the firm for six months, I started...

 

Last Friday, an enterprising 2008 Smith College alumna, Regina Chien, organized a group of 28 college students to visit  a few technology companies in New York City, including Google’s NYC headquarters, and her office at Silicon Valley Bank. Regina hoped to give these students a peak at different career options as well as to educate them on creating strategies now to...

You probably realized soon after you arrived at college that by the time you are a senior you better have a resume that grabs recruiters’ attention. The easiest way to do that is to win an Olympic medal in alpine skiing. Or…get a good summer internship.

Even if you need to earn money over the summer, try to squeeze...

I’ve recruited for over 15 years, and I almost never read my candidates’ cover letters. The one exception was when I knew the hiring manager read the cover letter because then I wanted to see how our feedback compared. Matching up on our feedback would help me adjust my screening going forward. Otherwise, the cover letter had no use to me, and I know many other recruiters and employers feel the...

Everyone who has applied to an MBA program or applied for any job worries about their resume.  How on earth do you fit your entire life story into one page?  And what an insult that someone actually thinks you can?

Your resume has almost nothing to do with your real life. It’s about your professional life, and it’s about...

As we head into MBA application season toward the end of summer/beginning of fall, I wanted to share a recent blog post that I wrote for MBA Podcaster which includes helpful tips on crafting your resume for an Executive MBA application. It was also recently featured on Stacy Blackman's MBA blog.

I had a wonderful opportunity to chat with Erica Ofenleger, Assistant Director for Executive MBA Admissions at the Goizueta Business School...

Anyone who has attended law school has heard that “IT DEPENDS” is the typical answer attorneys should give to any question. Does it allow you to avoid accountability? To stall? To open the question up to additional analysis? Yes, yes and yes. It does all of those things.

After I drafted this post I attended the Brooklyn Law School annual alumni lunch (yes I drafted it quite a while ago, one can...