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National Alumni Career Mobility Survey
K alumni, we need your voice! đź“Ł You’re invited to take part in the National Alumni Career Mobility (NACM) Survey, developed by the Career Leadership Collective. This annual survey is the first of its kind to inform career-readiness practices at colleges and universities across the U.S., and we’re thrilled to be tracking alumni career mobility… Read more
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Advancing Career Readiness Through the Liberal Arts: Building a Career Ecosystem
Kalamazoo College doesn’t just prepare students for the job market: we prepare them for a world in motion. In an era of rapid change and rising skepticism about higher education, students and families want more than promises. They want to see how a liberal arts education leads to real opportunity, meaningful work, and lifelong adaptability.… Read more
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Bad Ideas First: What Thomas Bentley ’25 Learned by Starting Before He Was Ready
“The value in these original iterations was not in making something good… but rather in that I took a step away from doing nothing and a step towards doing something.” — Thomas Bentley ’25 Thomas Bentley ’25 did not get his position with the Minnesota Twins by getting it right the first time. Actually, he discusses how a number of his initial baseball analytics projects were cumbersome, inefficient, and downright bad. But they were the building blocks.… Read more
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When the Job Isn’t Real: How to Spot (and avoid) “Ghost” Jobs
If you’ve submitted for a job, waited a few weeks and not heard anything, or even gotten through a round or two of interviews and then simply never heard back again, you’re not on your own. And, you might have been a victim of a ghost job.A ghost job is a job posting that’s advertised with no plan to hire. According to a survey from ResumeBuilder, as many as 40% of businesses admit to posting fake listings in the past year, and nearly 30% have one or… Read more