Texas has added over half a million jobs in the past year and unemployment is at 3.5% in Odessa and 2.6% in Midland, so recruiting in the Permian Basin has its challenges. Many companies are looking for ways to expand …
You’ve done everything right. Graduated, updated your resume, and started applying. Then you hit a wall almost every new grad knows: “Entry-Level Position, 2 to 3 Years of Experience Required.”
The Catch-22 Nobody Warned You About
It makes no sense. …
Landing the right job before you cross the stage at graduation isn’t about luck; it’s about treating the job search like a high-stakes engineering project. Most students treat job hunting like a scattershot hobby—tossing a few resumes into the digital …
The Class of 2026 is entering a professional landscape that looks vastly different from that of just a few years ago. With the rapid integration of artificial intelligence into the hiring process, the continued evolution of hybrid work, and a …
As you may have seen, there were two recent changes to the biggest job boards:
1) LinkedIn has moved to a new AI-based job searching system – which, while cool, makes it hard to get a handle on exactly how …
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While recruiters work to help companies fill their open roles, they can also help you — the job seeker — connect with roles you might be interested in and a good fit for. According to Jobscan, 94% of recruiters use LinkedIn to …
Ernst & Young, which operates under the trade name EY, is one of the biggest accounting firms in the U.S. It performs broader professional services for international companies. These services include auditing, assurance, consulting, tax, and investment banking. Considering a …
Additional funding was made available thanks to a Work-Based Learning Opportunity Grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
UT Permian Basin’s Career Services team is passionate about helping students feel prepared to enter the workforce after they graduate. One …
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Senior Mechanical Engineering student, Meinar Sheila, completed a three-month internship that she said has opened her eyes to new opportunities.
Through the internship fair put on by Career Services, Sheila was able to secure an internship position with Liberty Energy, …
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Once I heard a colleague compare searching for a job to shopping for a car. I worked at a car dealership for over 8 years and guess what… It’s spot on!
1. Identify Wants Vs Needs
When shopping for a …
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