10 Tips to Help You Get Your Dream Job
10 secret and not-so-secret pieces of advice from alumni in their dream jobs offer for job seekers everywhere.
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I Want Your Job: Dolphin Trainer
Megan Saylor ’11 trains dolphins to detect and mark underwater mines. The marine biology major and former Division I swimmer spends a lot of time scuba diving and hanging out with dolphins. She loves every minute.
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11, 2014
I Want Your Job: Matchmaker
Robyn Swider ’10 is a NYC-based professional Matchmaker for a company called Three Day Rule. Find out how Swider became TDR's first East Coast hire!
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10, 2014
I Want Your Job: General Manager at Organic California Winery
Ricky Vimmerstedt '02 never thought he'd leave the College of Charleston and wind up in Ojai, Calif. as the GM of an organic winery, but his position at Casa Barranca Winery is his dream job.
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10, 2014
I Want Your Job: Associate Editor at Game Informer Magazine
The "Legend of Zelda" N64 game changed Kyle Hilliard's life and set the 2009 grad on the path to his job as associate editor at Game Informer Magazine.
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10, 2014
I Want Your Job: Director of Soccer Operations
Erin Smith ’09 was a soccer standout at the College of Charleston and prospective professional. Now she gets players on the field for a U.S. Soccer Development Academy affiliated with the Colorado Rapids.
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10, 2014
Alumnus Taking Part in Search for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Ransom White '06 was exposed to sea floor mapping as a geology major at the College. Now he's working as a hydrographic surveyor in the search for the Malaysia Airlines plane.
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10, 2014
I Want Your Job: Data Scientist
In the year since Matt Mazzarell ’13 graduated from the College, he has helped to increase the effectiveness of MRI machines and developed a way to predict the failure of computer hard drives. Not a bad year.
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10, 2014
I Want Your Job: McDonald’s Corporate Archivist
Jessica Farrell '08 preserves McDonald's history, gives museum tours (yep, there's a museum) and sometimes she even chats with the inventor of the McNugget.
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09, 2014
I Want Your Job: Director of PR at J.McLaughlin
Anna Meacham ’07 went from an NYC newcomer looking for a job to the PR director for national fashion brand J.McLaughlin. Check out her career advice here!