January 28th, 2008
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By Adrian J. Hopkins
Do you ever have moments in class when you completely space out? Of course you do. As part of your college experience, those moments are completely normal. As part of the job interview experience, however, they are not.
Two years ago, I was in the same spot where many graduating seniors are currently finding themselves. Coming into senior year, I knew that I wanted to work in business, dealing in some way with either of my biggest passions – media or design, and that I wanted to work in a major city. When it came to identifying specifics, however, I was at a loss, and therefore an easy victim to the UCS vacuum. This is the vacuum that lures unsuspecting undergraduates into thinking, “Maybe I could do banking or consulting…there sure are lots of information sessions coming up…and the pay is nice I hear.” If you close your eyes and stand …
October 22nd, 2007
Sphere Magazine is pleased to present:
“Inside Scoop With Goldman Sachs”
Monday, October 29th
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
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Join us for an interactive event featuring a panel of current and former Yale students sharing the “inside scoop” on how they landed a job at Goldman Sachs and their experiences of working on Wall Street. A networking reception and light refreshments will follow.
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September 28th, 2007
Last spring, SphereMagazine.com asked you to nominate someone you thought was the most passionate senior of 2007 to win a free copy of Lindsay Pollack’s fantastic new book, Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World. Today, we highlight the second of those two amazing winners–Offiong Bassey.
Interview conducted by Sarah Cuningham
Sarah: Now, Offiong is not your typical name. Is there a phonetic spelling that would be helpful or is it pretty straight forward?
Offiong: I would say that that’s pretty phonetic. Off-ee-ong. It’s not very typical. It’s a Nigerian name in my family’s native language of “Efik.” (I’m first generation Nigerian-American)
Sarah: Very interesting, so where were you born in the states?
Offiong: I was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts
Sarah: Does Offiong have a specific meaning in Efik?
Offiong: Yes. In Efik, “Offiong” means moon and my last name, “Bassey” means God so I am “God’s moon.”
Sarah: Do you speak your family’s native language?
Offiong: I do. Not as well as I did when I was younger. …
September 12th, 2007
Last Spring, SphereMagazine.com asked you to nominate someone you thought was the most passionate senior of 2007 to win a free copy of Lindsay Pollack’s fantastic new book, Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World. Over the next two weeks, we will be highlighting the two amazing winners of our contest by featuring their interviews with SphereMagazine.com. Below is the interview for the first of these two winners—Andom Ghebreghiorgis.
Interview conducted by: Casey Gerald
Casey: So, Andom, were you born in America?
Andom: Yeah. I spent the first few years of my life in Harlem with a stop in Boston and then grew up in Mt. Vernon.
Casey: Really? What was it like growing up in Mt. Vernon?
Andom: I’ll always remember the day when I noticed how segregated Mt. Vernon was, what true wealth meant, and who they referred to when they said “minorities”. These things never hit me because my grade wasn’t …
May 23rd, 2007
WHO’S THE MOST PASSIONATE SENIOR YOU KNOW?
See after the post for nomination and contest info!
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Excerpt from Lindsey Pollak’s Getting from College to Career:
What passion could you pursue as a career, and how would you go about getting paid to do it? Here are some steps to propel you towards a career pursuing a passion:
1. Define your passion (or passions).
There’s a very simple question you can ask yourself: What would you do for a living if money were not an issue? Would you ski all day? Be a fashion designer? Open a coffee shop? Travel the world? Write screenplays? Paint? Invent toys? Read?
2. Make it real.
Research every job that relates to the passion or passions you’ve just defined. Since money is an issue, find all of the real ways you can make money doing what you love to do. For instance, if your passion is painting: Consider selling your paintings online or at local arts and crafts …
May 15th, 2007
You can rely on SphereMagazine.com for “real talk” to help you align your true passions with your career path. This way, you can feel free to go for the opportunities you want to take instead of those others say you should take.
Author Lindsey Pollak breaks it down exactly in her latest book, Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World (HarperCollins, 2007). Here’s an excerpt:
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In writing Getting from College to Career, I interviewed dozens of established professionals about their career paths and decisions. I wish I had a dollar for every person who had pursued a “safe” career choice when they were young and now wanted to pursue a passion they’d always had. The problem is, by their 30s and 40s, people had kids, mortgages, and lots of experience doing something they didn’t want to do anymore. And the prospect of starting all over again as an entry-level employee was not very enticing.
My advice to college students and recent …
May 3rd, 2007
Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) is a national non-profit organization that has made ground-breaking progress addressing the dramatic under-representation of minorities in leadership positions and in the institutions that develop top-notch talent, such as top-tier MBA programs and Fortune 50 companies. MLT, in close conjunction with partner organizations like McKinsey, Citi, Google, MTV Networks, GE, Yale School of Management, Harvard Business School and The Wharton School, gives young people the tools they need to accelerate their career trajectory and take themselves from good to great.
MLT has developed a unique Talent Development System, that goes beyond the traditional scholarship and internship approach to provide participants with the skills, personalized career map, experience, relationships and coaching they need to realize their career potential.
Many minorities entering the workforce after college graduation struggle because they are missing the hard and soft skills that are required of entry-level job applicants to top firms. While a student may have performed …
