Last month, hundreds of Rams donned their cap and gown, walked across the stage at Moby Arena to receive their degrees, and stepped into a new world ready to begin pursuing their careers. It can be daunting to enter the professional world, but your Alumni Association is here with great resources to help your career thrive.
These resources, written by Angela Hayes, Associate Director of Alumni and Online Career Engagement, provide helpful tips, insights, and guidance ranging from how to improve your productivity to beating impostor syndrome to the best ways to effectively negotiate for the salary you want and deserve. These resources aren’t just applicable for new grads. Sometimes, even the most seasoned professional needs help finding fulfillment in their career, and all Alumni Association members can benefit from the advice Hayes puts forth.
Check out Hayes’ three most recent posts below, or view the entire series.
For even more assistance with your career life and professional goals, check out all the Career Services offered by the CSU Alumni Association, which includes webinars, consultation services, upcoming events and career fairs, and resources for job seekers and employers alike.
How to Avoid Thinking Traps That Sabotage Your Productivity and Well-Being: It’s usually not the event or adversity itself that causes us to be stressed, upset and possibly feel like a fraud, it’s our interpretation of the event. It’s almost always about the stories we tell ourselves about what happened – our own unique interpretation.
Beating Impostor Syndrome: Imposter Syndrome is the psychological phenomenon in which you feel like you don’t deserve your accomplishments. You might feel like you don’t belong, don’t deserve your success, or are “out of place.”
Salary Negotiation for Women: Wage discrimination has been illegal since the Equal Pay Act passed in 1963, but it still continues. Before the pandemic, it was estimated that, if we kept going at the rate we were going, the wage gap would close in 2059.
