Questions tagged [student]
Questions from people in various school programs.
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Effects of being fired from a co-op on future employability
My friend is a grad student at an US institution studying Computer Science. During the internship season, they got an opportunity to work at a mid-sized company in the cyber-security domain. ...
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Seeking Advice on Handling Confidential Reference Letters for Internship Application
I am currently a master's student in the process of applying for an internship, and the program requires that I submit two signed reference letters. Unlike typical graduate school applications, where ...
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How do vacation days work for a summer job?
I'm in High School and want to take a lifeguarding job over the summer. The training consists of about 40 hours separated into 1 2 hour lesson a week. I've already attended about 4 so I've put in a ...
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LONG POST Looking for Advice from those with Experience [closed]
I’m 24 years old and just started my final year of college pursuing an IT degree. As the days to graduation count down I’m starting to get anxious about my lack of plan for the future. I’m overwhelmed ...
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Extending co-op / internship into part time
I’ve been interning at this company for over a year. I did a full-time semester with them last year, was offered to work part-time for the 8 months following, and am now currently doing a second full ...
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Is it wise to turn down this job offer? [closed]
I'm newly 18, a freshman in university and unemployed.
I've never had a job before, my family is chinese, and they highly valued getting into a good university over getting a job.
So, I never even ...
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I have a huge penalty if I violate the resignation notice period. What should I do about it?
I work as a Junior Frontend Dev in an IT company for two months (Kazakhstan). That's my first job. My monthly salary is currently 100 000 KZT. Resignation notice period is one month. If I violate it ...
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How to add group talk in my CV?
I recently gave a presentation on the research that I have been conducting with my group. It was a group talk. We all talked for 3-4 minutes, for a total of 10 minutes. This talk was the end of the ...
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General Manager avoids signing agreement and is never present
I’m young and inexperienced, I’m not familiar with worker laws or how common things are within the workplace. I just turned 18 this year and for my uni course I need 5 weeks work placement to be ...
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My employer overpaid me for my student work and ignored my email. Should I send a follow up?
I'm a student and I work part-time for a medium-sized company. For one day of work, I earn around €90. Normally, I work 4 days a month, but in January I took 2 days off. Yet, my pay for this month was ...
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Move abroad for internship
I am a Student in my 20s who’s recently moved abroad to do an internship. I have in the past year been in the USA to do an exchange semester there, and loved it. Therefore I applied to European (I am ...
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How do I secure a job offer from this company that I worked for two years during my master studies?
I have been working as an R & D engineer in a company for the past 2.5 years during my study. I recently graduated from university and was hired by the same company as a temporary full-time ...
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What should I write in my thank you letter to CEO?
I have been working as R & D engineer in a company for the past 2 years during my study. I recently graduated from university and the same company hired me as a full time employee. Our CEO sent a ...
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Can electronic engineering students get a job as a software engineer? [closed]
I am an electronic engineering student and wish to purse a career as a software engineer. I still have 2 more years of my degree left. I was wondering which modules should I select to improve my ...
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How to unlearn bad habits imbibed from ex boss
My boss in my previous project, was not a good manager, in my opinion. She had very controlling nature. She would treat me like a school child and put her nose in each and every matter and work. She ...
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Applying for an internship at the same company I completed one
I completed an internship in June this year and the same company have just listed another internship in a different department in which I am interested. The company is not very large, I have ...
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I May Drop My Masters In 3rd Year, Would This Be Seen As A Red Flag Trying To Career Switch Into Software Development?
I started my masters in environmental economics in 2018. I was a top student, volunteered on the departmental graduate student group, did professional development, and contributed to the department's ...
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How to explain long duration of study caused by "slacking off"? [duplicate]
My 5 year study of mechanical engineering ultimately ended up taking almost 9 years. While I had some technically relevant holiday jobs during that time, I don't have a good explanation why it took me ...
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Stuck working on project no clear goals
I am currently working on a master's degree in robotics. I have a job as part of a work study program from a French school. During the interview, I was presented with plenty of interesting robotics ...
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Job description changed after hiring
I am a robotics student in a work study program. While looking for the work part of the program, I received a message from the HR person of a company that I had not explicitly contacted after posting ...
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How extensive should a GitHub portfolio be for a CS student with no "real world" experience looking to secure their first internship?
I am a CS student that has reached the senior level of the degree program. As someone with absolutely no "real world" experience in terms of working a job related to computers, I feel that ...
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Business etiquette on responding to bonus email from CEO
I am a student and have been working part-time in a company. I have never received an increase in my hourly rate, but I received an email from CEO saying that they give me a bonus of $500 from the ...
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Work study program, I can't get bosses to give me work
I am in a work study program in France, and I have been with a company every other month now for 3 months (and three months of school). I am studying a pretty specific subject, and my bosses have put ...
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Giving constructive and fair feedback to student team with varying levels of engagement
My company has an agreement with a local University that every year we'll act as the customer to a team of students and get them to deliver a relatively small, simple software product to us. Our job ...
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How to get passport back from employer without losing job?
I am a Pakistani citizen working in a company located in the UAE. When the company provided me a visa they kept my passport. Now I want to apply for a study visa and to go for an interview I need a ...
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Pursuing a Career in Audio Software Development [closed]
I'm a Second Year Sound Engineering & Production student who, having enjoyed the Audio Software Development module in the first year, is looking to pursue programming as a potential career. Once ...
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Reference Letters for a Job Application?
I apologize in advance if this is a question with a well-known answer.
I am a student trying to get a job at a big and very important company. In the application (meaning, on the online portal), the ...
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Re-entering job information after uploading resume
When a job application asks me to enter job info, after uploading a resume, should I re-enter all the positions on my resume (jobs/clubs/etc.) or just the relevant ones or just paid jobs? I am a ...
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Cover letter: Offer to catch up on things I might be missing, before starting or before an interview?
I would like to get an interesting part-time position alongside studying.
However, I have encountered interesting positions where I feel I might be missing some requirements. Either I am missing a non-...
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Asking appropriate questions during interview for ideal worker
I've been tasked with looking for new student workers at my current institute. In a 2 step interviewing process.
I look for students, and do the first 'informal' interview to weed out in appropriate ...
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How to decline a summer job (after a successful internship) that doesn't align with my career plans?
I’m a photography major, and this past semester I was fulfilling my internship requirement at an art museum. Due to the COVID-19 situation, the museum was forced to shut down, and my position in the ...
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Working with anxiety [closed]
So, I 've always been anxious about my performance and fear of failure being the main bone I have to contend with. And to make matters worse, I've been diagnosed with ADD (eleventy years ago, and I'm ...
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Finding work as a paraplegic ( Wheelchair bound, paralysed)
I am 39 years old and was involved in a car accident 3 years ago. I was in the construction industry all my life. After the accident, I can no longer work in this field and decided to study BCompt ...
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Will it affect me negatively if I put in my CV that I am still studying?
I have an associate degree and with that i obtained a job in a tech company. Now i'm studying a computer science full degree. I'm planning to change my job and my question is if putting that i'm still ...
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Should I apply to Junior Developer jobs despite being in my penultimate year of my Software Engineering studies?
I am 19 and am a student in my second year of Software Engineering. Although I have no experience, I am trying to build programs using Unity and put it on Github to show employers that I have a ...
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Properly approach your "boss" for resignation
Please note before reading: I apologize in advance if this problem does not tackle a specifically work-related issue, but I think that the same advice can apply to this situation as well. Also, I lack ...
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Should I Work As a Student Programmer for Minimum Wage?
I have currently completed 4.5 years of my 5.5-year program for a BS in Computer Information Systems (programming) in Florida. Last summer, I was able to work at the Info Tech department as a web ...
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What is the work experience in internship?
I'm a Junior student.
And I want to apply for some internships.
But, a few internships said that you must write down your work experience.
This part is a requirement.
Actually, I think it's hard ...
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Side project turning into job in free time
I am a student and have worked in a 3-person team on a project for some time now. In this team, I have all IT roles (but mostly programming), and am currently having a conflict with a person who has ...
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What to put in the body of an apology email?
I'm a student writing a letter of apology to a dean at my school. I've written up the apology letter, now all I have left is to send it. But I'm a bit unsure of what to put in the body of the email ...
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What would be a fair split of ownership for a new service I and another company created [closed]
I am currently working at an online marketing company as a software developer. A few months ago I started my own software company (sole proprietorship, eenmanszaak in Dutch). I am still studying and ...
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Should I attend an upcoming career fair for 2020 if I'm currently an intern until the end of 2019?
Just to clarify, this isn't a duplicate of similar questions where the OP isn't interested in a job but is asking if it is okay to still attend a job fair.
Rather, I'm currently interning at a ...
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What skills and specializations would make me a good candidate for Robotics field? [closed]
One year ago I graduated as a civil engineer and I don't like this field.
I decided to start studying from the beginning again in other university in one of these two fields mechatronics engineering ...
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To what extent does choice of undergraduate dissertation impact job opportunities
To what extend does choice of undergraduate dissertation matter when applying for engineering jobs? I understand that a company will value a dissertation that is closely linked to the work they do, ...
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My boss says I lack communication skills. What does this mean and what should I do?
I am on a 12 month internship. I am a bit introverted and English is my second language. My manager told my prof that I am doing fine but I am not good at communication.
I was wondering if you could ...
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Changing career to CS from mechanical engineering [closed]
I am a final year undergraduate student from India from a highly reputed university, studying mechanical engineering. I don't have a lot of interest for it anymore and have a less than stellar (6.9/10)...
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Should I focus on my grades or on finishing my degree on time? [closed]
I am doing an 5-year Integrated Master's degree (3-year Bachelor + 2-year Master) on Physics in Europe. Aiming for a thesis in Quantum Computation/Information. I am currently on the 4th year and have ...
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What to wear for job interview [duplicate]
I am currently a PhD at a decent university in Math and applying for a part time grad student job in a Fintech company in one of the major centers for finance. I applied for the job by responding to ...
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Is it smart for a student to list athletic roles under Experience, instead of Hobbies, category?
Should a High School or College student list their athletic experiences, paid or not, for the school or not, under the category of Experience?
This could be a resumé or a school application.
Aren't ...
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I've been given a project I can't complete, what should I do?
I've been given a project over 5 months ago. I felt like it was beyond anything I've done previously when I got it, but I believed that since I've been given it, the task must suit someone of my ...
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