With the national unemployment rate at 9.7 percent, job-hunt anxieties are at all-time highs. Pamela Allen, a program director at the University Career Center, sat down with The Diamondback yesterday to talk about the latest trends in the market and tips ...

Lindsay Riebel, a senior accounting and finance major, never doubted her course of study. She never wanted to switch to a more artsy degree, never desired to take more science-driven classes and never craved more writing assignments. And now that a list ...

When Lauren Berger, the self-described 'Intern Queen,' graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2006, she hadn't tallied how many times she'd interned during her four years of college. She knew she was busy, but it wasn't until after she gradu...

Community assistants enjoy job's freedom Chris Wolfram would recommend his job to every college student. His shift sometimes starts in the dead of night, and once every few weekends, he has to work when his friends go out. Then there are the shifts whe...

There's just three months and four days between me and graduation. Do I want to graduate? Not really. Never before has 93 days felt like such a short amount of time. The last thing I want to do right now is get some soul-crushing job that causes me to sit...

Career fairs are a great way for students to get their names out into the professional world. Each year, the university hosts two large all-major career fairs: one in the fall and one in the spring. This semester, the Fall Career Fair is a three-da...

As the job market shifts to accommodate the digital era and social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter are finding their ways into the workplace, new opportunities have emerged for students to strut their tech-savvy stuff. Students are looki...

According to an article released by The Chronicle of Higher Education, five undergraduate majors are rising in popularity and are expected to develop at more universities: service science, health informatics, computational science, sustainability a...

After four years of cheering on the Terps and spending Saturday nights at the Thirsty Turtle, many undergraduates fear leaving the university for the 9-to-5 working world. College years are supposedly the 'best years of your life,' so many students...

While many students who are close to graduating may be worrying about finding a job, those already in the 'real world' are having trouble transitioning into the work force. Becky Weir, assistant director for the Career Center, said one of the most diffic...

Looking for help on your r and eacute;sum and eacute;? Don't know what a personal statement is? ENGL391: Advanced Composition and the University Career Center can teach students all those skills and more. ENGL391 is more commonly known as an option for the profe...

David Simon graduated from the university in spring 2008 with a degree in mathematics. He took a month off, started working at a moving company he'd worked for during past summers, and when the summer ended, Simon began looking for a full-time job. He has...

With great internships come great responsibility, and because the university is only nine miles from the nation's capital, it is only natural to seek out a coveted Washington internship. This could be a multitude of things, from lobbying, to assist...

When the unemployed or underemployed research job listings, the first place most of them will go, the Internet, presents almost endless possibilities, leaving students and recent graduates with no direction on which website to use. National employm...

Have you ever thought to yourself, 'If I could just get a hold of $20, I can definitely make it through the rest of this week?' There is an easy way for students to do just that right on the campus. Students interested in earning an easy chunk of cash ca...

As Tyler 'Brad Pitt' Durden of 'the first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club' fame said, 'You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're...

When it comes to Facebook and other social networking websites, grandmothers and potential employers have similar values. 'If your grandmother wouldn't like to see that on your account, your employer wouldn't either,' said Wil Jones, special assistant to...