How to Survive Your First Week as a Software Engineer

So you’ve landed your first role as a software engineer—congrats! Now that you’ve signed your employment agreement and gone through any onboarding, you’re ready to dive into your first week on the job. 

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What Are Technical Skills and How Should You Include Them On Your Resume? (Plus a List of Examples)

Whether or not you can do a job—and whether or not you can land that job—often depends on your technical skills. Technical skills are a subset of hard skills, which are the knowledge or abilities needed to perform specific tasks. …

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How an Internship Shapes your Career

Students are often reluctant to intern because they worry their internship will only consist of uninspiring tasks for little or no money. The truth is, although not all internships pay in cash, they do pay in other ways. An internship …

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Healthcare Recruitment 2020: The Good, the Bad and the Future

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To say 2020 was a difficult year is an understatement. For healthcare providers and professionals, the year saw unprecedented, sometimes overnight challenges that stretched resources and talent to their limits. Lessons will be learned as we examine the …

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HospitalRecruiting is an online healthcare job board for physicians, advanced practitioners, nurses, and allied health professionals. Visit our site to view current medical practice and employment opportunities or navigate to our Healthcare Career Resources Blog for more great articles like this one!
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7 Ways Job Searching Will Be Different in 2021 (and How You Can Adapt)

I know everyone is tired of hearing the words “unprecedented” and “2020” together. So I’m going to say that this last year was…extremely unordinary. And it’s probably safe to say that many of us are eager to put 2020 in …

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The Best Law Firms for Wellness

Law is a demanding profession with steep hours, high stress, and immense pressure—and in recent years, law firms have begun answering the call for more resources to support well-being. That's why this year, Vault launched its first-ever law firm wellness …

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How to Switch Careers to Social Work in the Age of Covid-19

The coronavirus pandemic is affecting the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. Social distancing has become the new norm for daily life everywhere, making it difficult to serve vulnerable populations. Schools are closing all over the country, leaving at-risk …

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5 Rewarding Teaching Careers in a Post-Covid-19 World

The economy has been brought to a grinding halt over the last few months, and everyone is feeling the squeeze. But although Covid-19 has closed schools and affected every industry from travel to retail, the field of education has been …

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6 Steps to Making a Financial Analyst Resume That Will Stand Out From the Competition

Financial analyst is a very common first job in finance, and the position can have a range of duties depending on the industry or company. Many financial analysts work in the investment world, analyzing potential or current investments and reporting …

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50 Best Accounting Firms for 2021

Today, we release our annual Accounting 50, a ranking of the best accounting firms to work for. This year, the rankings are based on a survey of more than 10,000 accounting professionals, who were asked to rate their own firms in …

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