{"id":1099,"date":"2013-09-12T16:17:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T20:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~career\/blog\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2013-09-12T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T20:17:35","slug":"savvy-seniors-top-5-mistakes-that-college-seniors-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/savvy-seniors-top-5-mistakes-that-college-seniors-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Savvy Seniors: Top 5 Mistakes that College Seniors Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~career\/images\/Blogimages\/Map Drawing.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing a map\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to your final year at UVM! Those who have gone before you have the wisdom of hindsight: knowing what they wish they had done differently.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some mistakes that you can choose to avoid:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> Waiting until March to think about what you want to do after graduation.<br \/>\n<strong>2)<\/strong> Not taking advantage of Winter Break for networking and informational interviews.<br \/>\n<strong>3)<\/strong> Not articulating your skills and strengths and just hoping that employers will magically see your potential.<br \/>\n<strong>4)<\/strong> Procrastinating on polishing your resume and sample cover letter until there\u2019s a really good opportunity you want to apply for.<br \/>\n<strong>5)<\/strong> Not taking advantage of opportunities to continue to get career experience throughout your senior year, i.e. internships, campus leadership, volunteer etc.<\/p>\n<p>Wondering how to avoid these mistakes and start your senior year off right?<\/p>\n<p>Join us at Careers and Coffee, the kick-off event for a year-long career series especially for seniors! Because how you start your senior year will help determine how you finish it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/415987725185526\/\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Careers and Coffee<\/span><\/strong><\/a> Thursday, Sept 19<sup>th<\/sup>, 3-6pm at the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/%7Euvmhub\/\">Career + Experience Hub<\/a> in the Davis Center Room 100!<\/p>\n<p><em>~Kala<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to your final year at UVM! Those who have gone before you have the wisdom of hindsight: knowing what they wish they had done differently. Here are some mistakes that you can choose to avoid: 1) Waiting until March to think about what you want to do after graduation. 2) Not taking advantage of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/savvy-seniors-top-5-mistakes-that-college-seniors-make\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Savvy Seniors: Top 5 Mistakes that College Seniors Make&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127021,16890,129667,108486,1],"tags":[116804,131420,132056,127713,542,135871,46457,138816,569,138818,137426,660,528],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-exploration","category-event","category-job-searching","category-resume","category-uncategorized","tag-advice","tag-career","tag-career-path","tag-cover-letter","tag-events","tag-job-search","tag-jobs","tag-networking","tag-photos","tag-resume","tag-savvy-seniors","tag-search","tag-tips","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"career","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/author\/career\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}