"I want to prevent the March meltdown." That’s what a new client told me when I asked what she hoped to get out of our work together. If you have been through the job search as a college student, or watched your kid go through it, you know exactly what she means. It is that stretch of spring when everyone, including the guy who couldn't remember his own name in class, starts posting about how “blessed” they feel to accept an offer. And you are left wondering if you are the o

"I can't find anything to apply to. What can I do now?" I'm getting this question from a lot of seniors lately. They're ready, motivated and they want to move fast. But if you're not interviewing for banking, consulting, or a handful of leadership programs, most full time roles for 2027 grads haven't posted yet. That does not mean you can just chill. There's still real work to do. Here's what I tell my clients: ✅ Build your target company list. Then do a little digging to le

"This is so frustrating. I'm sending out tons of emails to alumni from my school and no one is responding." When Sarah, a highly motivated college senior, said this last week, I asked to see a few of the emails. It was exactly what I suspected. In an effort to be efficient, she had built a template and was swapping in the person's name and company each time. It read exactly like that. Nothing about the person's actual work, and nothing about what she wanted to discuss beyond

Job coach Jodi Murnick shares why getting hired has everything to do with strategy. Jodi Murnick’s path to becoming a career coach was 25 years in the making. It began with a chance lunch conversation at her University of Georgia sorority house in 1998. Murnick, a second-semester senior with a psychology degree, admittedly was unsure of what came next. “Strangely, neither my parents nor I were that concerned about it,” she says. Then she met a friend of a friend who was visit