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What Not to Wear: The Men Edition 5 Helpful Tips for Security Management Careers How to Land a Job Interview Using Social Media Q
 

What Not to Wear: The Men Edition

This summer, we heard from the ladies. Now, it is the man's turn to chime in on what to wear at an interview.

5 Helpful Tips for Security Management Careers

Just as an entrepreneur has to create a marketing plan to be successful, a security management professional needs to develop an action plan to identify his or her career path and goals.

How to Land a Job Interview Using Social Media

If you subscribe to the companies you're interested in working for through Facebook, or follow them on Twitter, you're in a good place for your hunt. Check out this podcast for more insight into using social networks to find an interview.

Q&A: Public Administration Outlook

Public Administration encompasses a wide variety of duties needed to develop and implement government policies and programs at various levels nationwide. APU faculty member, Dr. Kristen Obst answers three common questions regarding this popular academic discipline and career sector.

Victory Over Vampires: Handling Bad-News People at Work

“Every hurtful and annoying thing vampires do follows a pattern. Intentional or not, they do what they do because it gets them the responses they expect and the outcomes they want. The best way to defend yourself is to recognize the patterns and step out of them.”

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Jet Set Your Job Search: Join Us for Career Week

It’s graduation season and an exciting time for celebration. You can just hear the orchestra playing March No. 1 (more commonly known as “Pomp and Circumstance”) and see yourself walking across the stage while your family and friends cheer you on. Then you fade back into reality as you realize now the real work begins. Now it’s time to make use of the degree you worked so hard to complete and find a job to begin your career. But where do you start? Here are some tips to jet set your job search.

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Bad Habit Slimdown, Week 20: Being Industry Clueless

In order to get to “Zeus” status among your peers you need to stay on top of trends and current news. Also, it’s good to be specialized in one or two areas, not several.

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Sorry Women, It’s Time for Binders Full of Jobs

Let’s say you are the average Twitter user with a couple of hundred followers and you’re looking for a job, a quick shout out about needing work isn’t going much of anywhere. Which brings us to the causes category of our show. Much like #bindersfullofwomen took off overnight, many causes or events (re: #finalfour, #worldseries, #grammyawards) create these tremendous trails of followings. Many people and businesses try to anticipate what the hot hashtag will be and use it to their advantage by joining the slipstream created in the wake of the trending hashtag.

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