Cyberbullying Can Get Your Students Busted!
Cyberbullying has become a major problem in schools. Here is a great video you can share with students to help fight Cyberbullying.
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5 Tips and Templates for that Post Interview E-mail
What do your students do after they have gone on an interview? Do they follow up and thank the person(s) that interviewed them? Do they know what they should say? Only a 1/4 of all people who have been interviewed take the time to send a follow up note/e-mail. Following up can set your students Read More
Have any students that are interested in pursuing a Nursing career?
If yes, we found a resource that lists a number of scholarships opportunities specifically for students pursuing a career in Nursing. Here are a list of some of the scholarships available and a link to the complete listing with information on how to apply to each: AfterCollege/AACN Nursing Scholarship Program Amount $2,500 American Cancer Society Read More
Archives of Prior LINK for Counselors Issues
LINK for Counselors has now been published for 7 years. Looking for a past issue? We have all our prior issues available for download free as PDF’s (and our latest issue in digital format). Here is the page on our website where those can be viewed or downloaded – https://www.linkforcounselors.com/publication/
How to Answer the 12 Toughest Interview Questions
Your students will participate in many interviews during the course of their work life. Have they prepared for the questions they will get and how they should answer them? Here are 12 of the toughest interview questions and tips on how to answer them from Flexjobs: 1. What is your current salary? FlexJobs’ coaches advise Read More
College Comparison Worksheet
ACT published a easy to use College Comparison Worksheet that makes it easy for your students to compare the pros and cons of the Colleges they are considering. The items to include to compare the schools they are considering are: Location, Size, Environment, Admission Requirements, Academics, College Expenses, Financial Aid, Housing, Facilities, Activities and Campus Read More
Top Five Things for High School Seniors to Do Before January 1, 2022
Apply for Scholarships and Develop a Scholarship Calendar Many students and parents concentrate on applying for college, complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and then wait for the colleges to send them a financial aid offer. After the dollar amounts offered do not meet their needs, then they reach out to people Read More
Have Students Looking for Part-Time Work Over the Holidays?
These companies are hiring part-time workers according to FlexJobs: 1. 1-800Accountant 1-800Accountant provides virtual accounting, consulting, and tax preparation services to small businesses. The company also offers services to individuals and self-employed, independent contractors. 2. Amazon The largest online retailer in the world, Amazon employs more than 1 million people. 3. CSI Companies CSI Companies Read More
Strategies for Success in Navigating Test Optional Admissions
The role of standardized tests in the college admissions process has always been difficult to understand, with most people overestimating their importance at most colleges. Now, with more colleges allowing applicants to apply without test scores, it is even harder to decipher how test scores (or the lack thereof) will impact an applicant’s likelihood of Read More
How UC PIQs are Just Like (and Completely Different) from the Common App
Are you a West Coast counselor who knows the University of California Personal Insight Questions inside and out? Or a Midwesterner with a handful of students applying to the UCs each season? Or somewhere in between? Regardless of how many of your students dream of California, you are probably familiar with the UCs’ insistence that PIQs are nothing Read More
