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No degree? No problem. Here's how to build the skills and track record that actually get you hired.
The Internet has done a lot to democratize education, and today most employers value skills over credentials. That dynamic creates a double-edged sword. On one hand, degrees hold less automatic weight, so proving that you…
Scouted
I’m sick of hearing about the “STEM Crisis” in America. Read any report on American education from the past decade, and you’ll see an excessive amount of hand-wringing over the fact that American students are…
Jess Focht
Finding your first apartment ain’t easy. Take it from me; as someone who recently just went through the process, finding your first grown-up place to live post-college is probably the second biggest decision you’ll make…
Scouted
You’ve gotta risk it to get the biscuit. Right? George Steinbrenner didn’t build the Yankee dynasty without some tough decisions: like firing – and rehiring – baseball manager Billy Martin on five (!) separate occasions.…
Scouted
While we are going to aim to stay out of the political fray on this blog, we want to be in the middle of the fray about getting hired. So today we are taking a…
Scouted
When you graduate from college, adults often warn that "the real world is really hard". This is useless advice. What adults really mean is that "you're going to make a shit ton of mistakes". And it's…
Scouted
"If you go to school, you can get a good job, and make decent living”. For decades, it’s always been this same narrative. The common dialogue is that all kids go through high school, pick…
Scouted
Being a recently graduated job hunter can be a stressful time in one’s life. In times of stress, we like to use gifs as a coping mechanism, Here are 10 situations, as told by gifs,…
Scouted
We get it. Some jobs just aren’t what you imagined they’d be. Whether you’re really not feeling the office culture or you see a pattern of requests for you to do things that weren’t exactly…
Scouted
Robin Levine, founder of Scouted, has noticed a value shift in how the Millennial generation views work. About previous generations, she said, “It used to be all about an end-goal. You’d do grunt work in…
Jess Focht