Soft Skills: Language in Resumes

  Over the course of this series, we’ve discussed a variety of soft skills essential to professional success. Having these skills, however, is not enough. You must also develop and refine the ability to convey your proficiency through language. Though the format varies slightly, the core elements of a resume have remained relatively consistent over …

Getting To Know the New LinkedIn

LinkedIn has undergone substantial desktop redesign changes over the past few months! From homepage alterations to functional changes across the platform, the site has a lot to take in.  Here are some of the latest and most relevant changes to the site: Snapshot – LinkedIn has introduced a new brief summary of your profile through …

Soft Skills: Teamwork

Teams are an essential part of most professional careers. At one point or another most jobs require some form of teamwork, therefore the importance of working well in a group setting is undeniable. Here are some strategies to effectively collaborate with others in the workplace: Check your ego at the door. Often stated, rarely executed, …

Purdue CCO Marketing & Media Internship

Looking for a paid, on-campus internship that helps you build your portfolio and gain valuable experience? Join the Center for Career Opportunities as a Marketing & Media Intern for the Fall 2017-Spring 2018 school year! Ranked as the 3rd best university career services nationwide, this team seeks to continue building the CCO brand through creative …

Soft Skills: Receiving Feedback

In the workplace and life in general, receiving feedback and criticism is a difficult thing. In the last entry of our core series we discussed strategies to improve doling out feedback, but now we’ll discuss the less covered process of receiving feedback. First we must understand that when it comes to feedback there are always …

Soft Skills: Giving Feedback

In the professional world, advice on how to give feedback is abundant, but often focuses on the wrong areas. For example, a commonly toted strategy is to sandwich negative criticism between two positive pieces of praise. Such an approach overlooks the important fact that people simply aren’t that gullible. If you placed two pieces of …