Author: Staff Writer

Imagine a student sitting in a quiet library, staring at a complex calculus equation and wondering if it will ever matter in the real world. Now, contrast that with a…

The myth that your college degree is a rigid blueprint for the rest of your life is one of the most damaging ideas in the modern job market. Many students…

I once advised a brilliant young analyst who left her role after only nine months. She believed that “job hopping” was the only way to increase her salary quickly. She…

Imagine you are standing on a pier, watching a massive container ship glide toward the horizon. You see the officers on the bridge and the engineers deep in the hull,…

A few years ago, I sat across from a student named Sarah who was weeks away from graduating with a degree in Sociology. She was panicked because she felt her…

I once walked into a high-stakes job interview with a degree that, on paper, suggested I was an expert in “Interdisciplinary Cultural Analysis.” The recruiter looked at my resume, looked…

Imagine standing at a crossroads at eighteen years old and being told that the path you choose today will define the next forty years of your life. It is a…

Recent data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York indicates that nearly 40 percent of recent college graduates are underemployed. This means many young professionals start their careers in…

In the movie Moneyball, Billy Beane realizes that the old way of picking players is broken. He stops looking at how a player looks and starts looking at the data…

The day the notification landed in my inbox, the world felt like it shifted on its axis. I was a career strategist who spent my days telling others how to…