Career columnist Olivia Truesdale SC ’21 talks about why your career isn’t over if you don’t get the job you were hoping for. “When it comes down to it, all experience is experience even if it isn’t quite what you had anticipated doing,” she writes.
Author: Olivia Truesdale
Career corner: When to call it quits
Career columnist Olivia Truesdale SC ’21 evaluates when it’s best to leave work and how to do so gracefully and professionally.
Career corner: Interviews may be intimidating, but they aren’t impossible to navigate
In this week’s career column, Olivia Truesdale SC ’21 reveals how to ace a job interview, from using the STAR method to channeling a growth mindset. The key to reducing interview nerves is preparation. You’ll likely feel a bit nervous no matter what … but it will be empowering to know you studied and can put your best foot forward.”
Career corner: Crafting a creative cover letter that will get you the job
This week’s Career Corner goes over the ins and outs of writing cover letters, from what content to include to how to spice up the letter.
Career corner: Mastering the resume rodeo
Career corner column: Tips on putting together, writing and formatting a professional resume
Beckett Hall sewage leak forces 25 students to relocate
Zubin Jotwani CM ’20 woke up in Beckett Hall at Claremont McKenna College around 8 a.m. Nov. 26. to the sound of professional sanitation cleaners vacuuming the sewage water that had flooded his dorm room. “I put my feet on the ground and there was an [inch] of water,” he
News Bites — Week of Nov. 11
Pomona College and Claremont McKenna College graduates named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Scott Tan PO ’16 was selected as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 innovators in science for 2019. Tan majored in physics and is now a doctorate candidate in mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At
Claremont students enthusiastic about voting, participating in midterm election
This midterm season, people across the country took to the polls to make their voices heard. At the Claremont Colleges, it was no different. Following on-campus voting at Edmunds Ballroom, various politics groups, like the 5C Democrats, Claremont Government Society, and Scripps Politics Association, held election watch parties. Claremont McKenna
News Bites – Week of Oct. 28
Claremont Colleges Jewish student groups host solidarity Shabbat 5C Chabad, Claremont Hillel, Kehillah, Nishmat, AEPi, Associated Jewish Groups of the Claremont Colleges, and the Chaplains of The Claremont Colleges are partnering to host a remembrance ceremony and Shabbat dinner at Frank Dining Hall Nov. 2 at 6 p.m. in the
Scripps College RAs no longer permitted to serve as primary crisis responders
CW: Mention of suicide As part of the Scripps College Residence Life student staff restructuring initiated at the end of last year, resident advisors and community coordinators are not permitted to be on the scene of crises on campus, according to multiple Scripps students. Vice President for Student Affairs and