Let Candid Career Work for You!

If you’ve read our weekly emails (which you should!) or have stopped into our office (which you really should!), then you’ve probably heard our team members talking about an online exploration resource called Candid Career.

“Nope,” you say, “What’s Candid Career?” Well, if you’re thinking about a certain field you’d like to pursue as a career, or are on a certain track and wondering what options might be available to you, what better way to learn than hearing from people who are currently in those fields and positions?

That’s what Candid Career does; they go to the pros and ask questions about things like how they got into their field or what a day on-the-job is like, then record those informational interviews and put them online for you to view!

But enough from me about all the great work they do, check out their latest commercial to hear straight from them about how Candid Career can help you!

Oh, and one more thing; you can access Candid Career by logging into Pride-CMS through the Hofstra Portal!

As always, if you have more questions about Candid Career, or how you can use it to gear up your career exploration or decision process, let us know! We’d love to help.

Happy Exploring!














Amy Smith, Assistant Director

If You Like Tinder, You’ll Love This…

Have you ever heard of the old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words?”  When it comes to your profile pictures, this can very well be the truth! Anyone who is familiar with the popular dating site Tinder, will be familiar with the concept that this new website I’m going to tell you about has to offer.

Now, I don’t use the dating site Tinder because I’m happily married (love you Matthew), but from what I know users make quick judgments about people based on their photo.  I can only imagine the controversy a concept like this might instigate being that we, as people, are much more than one good photo.  However, what is undeniably true is that photos can make a “first impression” online. Do you look confident, fun, friendly? 

As a career professional I’m not exactly here to support your love life (although a career as a match maker might be cool).  My goals are more in line with supporting your career.  One of the major resources we encourage students to use is LinkedIn.  However, many students either don’t have a profile picture or they have an inappropriate photo up.  Well a new site is here to help: photofeeler! 

I signed up for an account and tested it out.  You can sign up for free and connect it to your LinkedIn or other social networking accounts.  After you vote on a few photos of other users, you get credits that you can use to get others to vote on your photos.  It is all free!  You start to see the results instantaneously as to the “competent, likeable and influential” look of your LinkedIn profile photo.  The feedback is objective and helpful!  The more votes you get, the more reliable your results are.  You can also use it to get feedback on your social and dating accounts – bonus! 

Try it out and let me know what you think in the comments section!

Deanna Rodin, Associate Director