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In today’s job market, employers are looking to fill positions with multi-faceted employees who possess technical skills such as data visualization coupled with soft skills such as communication and collaboration. These hybrid jobs that require skills not traditionally associated with a role, are becoming more and more popular This means that if you’re an IT professional you must also be a sales representative, and if you’re a Human Resources manager you are now expected to know how to use social media.

Are you all about video games like Assassin’s Creed and Arkham Knight? Does the controller have to be pried from your hands? It might be time to think about taking those skills a step further and building your own video game. At Bentley University, students are learning how.   In the IT industry, a “sandbox” […]

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Have you ever had lunch with 10,000 incredible women? On Thursday, December 10th, I had the opportunity to spend the entire day with that large group of women at the Massachusetts Conference for Women. As a student at a business university (read my post on why I went to a business school), I’m aware that […]

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As a freshman in college, the past few months have brought great change into my life. Now that I finally feel a bit more settled into my new lifestyle, I have compiled a list of the ten most important things that I have already discovered during my time here at Bentley University. I’m sure I […]

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If you poll transfer students about whether making the decision to transfer schools was a difficult choice for them, my guess is that a majority will answer yes. And that includes me! I wasn’t happy at my previous college, but making the decision to leave my friends and the place I called home for a […]

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  Imagine little freshman me, venturing into college for the first time. What was I nervous about? What if I don’t make friends? Will I gain the freshman 15? What if the academics are too hard?   Those were just some of the many concerns I had. When I was going into college, the idea […]

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