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This week, Michael reports on his trip to the Austin Film Festival Writer’s Conference. If you have wondered what it takes to break into playwriting, screenwriting, writing for television or creative podcasting, Michael has great advice straight from the mouths of industry professionals. Learn how to network effectively and what professional organizations are there to support you. All that and more on this unique and insightful episode! Enjoy!

Happy Halloween! In this year’s terrifying installment of the CS Radio Halloween Special, we tackle the curse that follows those who reneges on a job offer! We also talk about ways that receiving a job offer can be scary and ways to tone down the terror of negations. It’s all treats and no tricks when Mylène and Michael are on the job. Enjoy! Show Notes When a Student Reneges on a Job Offer: An Employer’s Perspective (NACE) Why Reneging on your Job Offer is Bad for your Career Mojo (Penn & Beyond) Penn OCR Guidelines and Policies for Employers

Beyond even being on the job market, career planning and exploration at all levels can be an incredibly stressful and difficult task. This week, we take a close look at resources available to help you stay well prepared and release your stress while planning your career. Mylène and Michael welcome back their colleague, Dr. Joseph Barber, to talk about how Penn Career Services partners closely with CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services) to provide career wellness resources to the campus. Enjoy! Show Notes Even Artichokes Have Doubts (Yale News) CAPS and Career Services Personal Wellness and Career Workshops Career Exploration Self-Assessments Interests, Skills and Values Exercises

Michael and Mylène reflect on an interesting article about unexpected and challenging questions asked during real interviews from major companies. Play along as we go through some real brain scratchers that interviewees have been asked at places like Amazon, Facebook, Google, Uber and Trader Joe’s! We’ll give you our best answers and advice on how to handle these seemingly impossible questions and what employers are really looking for when they ask them. It’s one of our favorite episodes to date! Enjoy! Tough Interview Questions 13 Crazy Interview Questions from Awesome Companies (The Muse) Four Insanely Tough Interview Questions (And How to Nail Them) (The Muse) Interview and Question Types (Career Services)

Last year, Career Services developed “The Penn 7” career competencies. Being successful in your career is not necessarily specific to your choice of field of study or the grades you earn. Employers from a wide variety of industries, hiring for all different kinds of jobs, have been surveyed extensively in the past few years to determine what qualities contribute to the success of their employees. Drawing on that research, Career Services has developed a series of career competencies to help all candidates – undergraduates through postdoctoral fellows – identify areas of strength and potential growth that will contribute to productive, lifelong professional development. Achieving these Penn7 Competencies will help to maximize the potential number of career paths you may consider after leaving Penn, and increases the likelihood that you choose the path that is the best fit for your skills, interests, and career goals. Mylène guides us through these seven competencies, while Michael shares out the online platfor

Today marks the start of Global Week at The University of Pennsylvania. The aim is to enlighten the Penn community about how they can engage with the world here on campus and by going abroad. As part of the festivities, Career Services will host our annual Global Career Fair on Thursday, featuring employers hiring for full time and summer internship positions around the world! In this episode of CS Radio, Michael and Mylène look at the various other resources Career Services offers to students and alumni looking to work abroad, as well as reviewing some general tips for an international job search. Enjoy!

Say how do you do and shake hands! Last week, we were thrilled to announce to the campus that University of Pennsylvania Career Services will be moving to the Handshake platform this summer. Michael and Mylène are joined by Handshake’s Director of University Growth, David Shull, who gives some insight into Handshake’s story and philosophy and shares a preview of what students and alumni can expect when the system goes live on June 1st. Plus, the semester may be coming to a close, but there’s still events on our calendar, so we’ll give you the usual run down. This is our second season finale. We may be back over the summer with a special bonus episode, but regular weekly programming will return in September. Thank you for subscribing!

This week is a real potpourri – a sort of spring cleaning, if you will, of everything left on the calendar. We’ll cover resources for relocating for a job, pre-health personal statements, the academic job search and more! It’s our penultimate episode of the season and we have a lot to cover! Enjoy!

Celebrating 40 episodes! This week, Michael and Mylène highlight some of the resources available to our international students who are hoping to obtain employment in the United States. In this ever changing political landscape, this already tricky process seems more uncertain than ever – but we have many ways of helping! All that plus the usual rundown of this week’s events. Enjoy!

Are you stressed out about your approaching graduation? Does it feel like everybody around you got their job offer ages ago? DON’T PANIC. Michael and Mylène are here to ease your fears! We’ve got some solid facts to back it up – plenty of Penn students don’t accept a job offer until March or later! We’ll go into the details, plus the usual run down of this week’s events – of which there are MANY! Enjoy!

Continuing on from last week, Michael and Mylène take a look at the Myers-Briggs inventory. Our intrepid producer, Karen, took the inventory and now sits down with Senior Associate Director Claire Klieger to get her results. Claire walks us through what a basic MBTI counseling session is like and gives us an overview of each of the MBTI personality types. All that, plus the usual rundown of the week’s events! Enjoy!

The first in a two-part CS Radio saga! Michael and Mylène explore the many career/personality inventory tests offered by Career Services, starting with the STRONG Career Inventory. Learn what these inventories can tell you about yourself and your possible career paths. All that, plus the usual run down of this week’s events. Enjoy!

The countdown to spring break has begun! It’s hard to believe, but that means summer is just around the corner! Have you been considering accepting a summer opportunity but are reluctant because it is low or no paying? For the third year, Career Services is proud to be able to offer assistance via our Summer Funding Grant. This week, Michael and Mylène talk about how you can apply and review what opportunites students pursued with their funding last summer. Plus, we welcome the newest Career Services staff member, Natty Leach, to the studio! All that, plus the regular rundown of this week’s events. Enjoy and happy spring break! We’ll be back in two weeks, after the break.

Love is in the air! This week, we focus on careers right here at the University of Pennsylvania. Penn loves to hire alumni, and right now there’s a big push to hire new graduates! Michael and Mylène discuss the variety of opportunities available to recent Penn grads who are thinking about staying on campus to work, the perks of working for the university and the ways a first job here can be a springboard to a great career. We also welcome Sue Russoniello, the business manager for Career Services, to do discuss her twenty years of working at Penn! All that, plus the usual rundown of this week’s events! Enjoy!

Happy new year! We’re back after the long winter break, but Michael flies solo this week as Mylène does her civic duty on a jury! This week, in anticipation of the upcoming Creative Careers Fair, Michael “flashes back” to a year ago, when we interviewed two amazing students with equally amazing stories about their internships in the entertainment industry and their pursuit of post-grad careers in the field. Now that they’ve both graduated, did their paths work out as they planned? Tune in and find out – we have an update! All that, plus the usual rundown of what’s happening this week in Career Services. We’ll be back next week with both hosts and all new content. Enjoy!

It’s our fall finale! It’s the last day of classes at Penn and we’re here with one last episode for 2016. Mylène and Michael are joined by Dr. Joseph Barber, Associate Director on the graduate students team. Joseph talks about the ways that grad students can use their break not only to step away from their work, but prep for the spring semester and their job search. We hope everyone has a safe and relaxing holiday season. We’ll back for the second half of our second season in late January. See you in 2017! Enjoy!

Are you planning (or just considering) going to medical or dental school after graduation? The process is long and there a lot of steps, and every institution handles the application process slightly differently. This week, Michael and Mylène speak with Caroline Wilkey from Penn’s pre-health advising team, who gives us an overview of our process and introduces us to the Health Professions Advisory Board (HPAB). The first HPAB workshop is this week, so juniors and seniors with medicine on the mind should plan on attending. All that, plus the usual rundown of this week’s events. Enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving from Career Services! This week, J. Michael and A. Mylène welcome back Patricia Rose, director of Penn Career Services to talk about how to handle stressful questions about your job search from your family during the Thanksgiving break. Somewhere between the roast turkey and the sweet potato pie, start a new tradition and fire up this special Thanksgiving episode of CS Radio! We’re off next week, but will be back with an all new episode on December 5th. Enjoy!

Some listeners have been experiencing problems playing back this week’s show through podcast apps on their mobile devices. We’re reposting in hopes that this will correct the error. Enjoy!

This Friday is our annual International Opportunities career fair. In preparation of that, Mylène and Michael take a look at the many resources we offer students looking to work abroad. We also welcome our former colleague, Helen Chung, to the studio. Helen has just returned from three years of working abroad in Hong Kong and brings her first hand experience to the show. All that, plus the usual rundown of this week’s events. Enjoy!