JVS Career Services

By Joni Burton, CPCC and CEO, JVS Career Services Internships are an invaluable way to gain real-life workplace experience, and increasingly, that’s what employers are looking for in the new college grads they hire. That means you should complete at least one internship, but preferably more. You may want also consider interning abroad, as there…

“After a year of searching for a job on my own, and getting a number of rejection letters, I was starting to doubt myself and my skills.” Just about anyone who has searched for a job has probably had the same feelings that Holly Funk experienced during her year-long job search. Holly is a research…

“I get up every day and I get to do a job that I love. I’d rate it a 10; that’s how much I love it.” For Mindy Ellis, reentering the job market was a daunting task. She had been a stay-at-home mom for more than twenty years, when she found herself in need of…

Peter Landesman, Senior Business Development Manager, JVS Career Services A recent article in the Cincinnati Business Courier advised employers that a tight job market with low unemployment coupled with employers’ difficulty filling jobs will prompt wage hikes that could average 3.5 percent. In an article titled, Inside the Hottest Job Market in Half a Century,…