Thursday’s Coffee Clicks (2.23.11)

Three stories to start your morning:

• Vault releases its comprehensive annual ranking and breakdown of the Top 10 Finance Internships that have major influence on young careers. If money is your passion, pay attention.
• Is the first file attachment they’ll see named “resume.pdf?” Tsk-tsk. Some very overlooked tips from PR Daily on creating the best impression when applying for an internship.
• If the prospect of taking on an unpaid or minimum-wage internship is making your checkbook scream, there are a few ways you can calm it down. Start with this checklist.



Wednesday’s Coffee Clicks (2.23.11)

• Does America’s young millennial workforce share too much online for its own good?
• ONE Penn State dance marathon just raised $9.5 million to benefit kids with cancer. Yes, that is awesomely abnormal.
• Want to be more persuasive? Check out these 10 scientific tips that get people’s attention.
• Is breakfast REALLY that important? HerCampus investigates your mom’s favorite warning. Plus, healthy to-go recipes.

Tuesday’s Coffee Clicks (2.22.11)

• Feel like your employer doesn’t appreciate you? It should. Read these reasons why interns mean more to an businesses than cheap labor.
• Blogger Alejandra Acosta begins a fairly disturbing account of her journey to a D.C. internship. Read the good, the bad and the ugly.
• Wanna get more done? Unplug your laptop.

Monday’s Coffee Clicks (2.21.11)

• Smart, reasonable steps you can take to clean up your social media accounts. Changing your last name isn’t gonna cut it, folks.
• NPR intern Trevor Lowman asks whether we should be concerned that so many young Americans aren’t voting.
• PR student Jessica Bedore compiles an excellent list of tips for polishing your Twitter image.

Friday’s Coffee Clicks (2.18.11)

• A women’s guide to assembling an appropriate and fashionable business wardrobe on a budget.
• I promised myself I would never post a cat meme, but here I am linking to Business Cat.
• Feeling uninspired? Read this blog account of how a simple idea launched a nonprofit that has brought comfort to more than a million cancer patients.

Thursday’s Coffee Clicks (2.17.11)

• Forbes hits us with its list of the 20 Most Powerful CEOs Under 40. And lots of them are way under 40.
• How internships set the table for a real job.
• This intern got called out in grand fashion after he blew off work for a theme party. Next time you dress up like Tinkerbell, you might want to turn off Facebook tagging.

Wednesday’s Coffee Clicks

• College Candy outlines six common speech mishaps you should, umm, cut out of your interviews.
• I prefer not to even think about the time I could have saved if this barcode-to-bibliography app existed when I was in college.
• PRSA members tell why tackling a PR internship beats reading about it every time.

Tuesday’s Coffee Clicks (2.15.11)

V-Day’s over, so toss your significant other by the wayside and get back to business.

• Carnegie Mellon’s student paper answers that age old question: “Why are all my jerk friends getting internships before me?”
• Didn’t get up the nerve to ask a coworker out this Valentine’s Day? If they’re one of these five people, it’s definitely for the best.
• Graduating this year? Your job prospects are looking a little better — but you’ll still need to keep your head down.

Monday’s Coffee Clicks (2.14.11)

• Buzzfeed tells how it targeted the entire female populace of SDSU to get its intern, Matt, a Valentine’s Day date.
  
• DePaul University’s career center has some advice for those rocketing through their internship search: Take time to read your e-mails.
• Been cramming for your exams? New brain research suggests you’re doing it wrong.
• Director Spike Lee speaks to Rutgers students about motivation, career choices and changing racial perceptions.
• Career advisor and Examiner.com blogger Allison Cheston says networking is about access, NOT information.

Friday’s Coffee Clicks (2.11.11)

• You’re gonna get carded. Business cards, that is. Here are some stylish, affordable places to order them.
• A compelling plea to get your ducks in a row before graduation from a frazzled UCLA senior.
• We love internships, but I think we have to agree with Gawker here. Don’t pay $9,000 for one.