CareerVillage Articles

Category: The Student Perspective

  • Finding His Stack: Edmark’s CareerVillage Story

    Finding His Stack: Edmark’s CareerVillage Story

    How one CareerVillage question helped an aspiring IT student trade guesswork for a game plan. Edmark is a 19-year-old second-year student at Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He originally dreamed of studying engineering, but when it came time to weigh his options, he followed the steadier path: Information Technology, which aligned with growing demand for…

  • Embracing Challenge and Finding Community: Ofri’s CareerVillage Story 

    Embracing Challenge and Finding Community: Ofri’s CareerVillage Story 

    Ofri has never been afraid to chart her own path. A transfer student who has moved through three different schools, community college, a state university, and now Brandeis University, she has always been willing to pursue something more challenging. She is taking on rigorous math courses in pursuit of her psychology and neuroscience double major,…

  • How Sydney Explored Her Future of Entrepreneurship with CareerVillage

    How Sydney Explored Her Future of Entrepreneurship with CareerVillage

    A student with a keen interest in business and a dedicated golf player, Sydney is in the midst of an exciting, pivotal moment that will shape her future: navigating the prospects of colleges she may commit to studying and playing golf at. Next year, she envisions herself attending a college somewhere with warm weather (hopefully…

  • From Wallabies to Yeast DNA: Amber’s CareerVillage.org story

    From Wallabies to Yeast DNA: Amber’s CareerVillage.org story

    Looking for specific career guidance, Amber turned to CareerVillage.org—a community where professionals answer students’ real questions about careers.

  • From Cadet to Career Clarity: Layla’s CareerVillage.org story

    From Cadet to Career Clarity: Layla’s CareerVillage.org story

    Suddenly unsure about her career path, Layla turned to the community on CareerVillage.org

  • From Rejection to Resilience: Stephanie’s CareerVillage.org Story

    From Rejection to Resilience: Stephanie’s CareerVillage.org Story

    After some difficult news, Stephanie turned to CareerVillage.org

  • The Student Perspective: Meet Tyler

    The Student Perspective: Meet Tyler

    Written by: Corina Chen and the CareerVillage.org Team “I’m different. My head is in the game. I’m going to start my freshman year of college and want to prepare for medical school now. I want to go to the best medical school possible.” -Tyler “Ever since I was little, my life has been about two…

  • From Skepticism to Social Work: Meet Stephanie

    From Skepticism to Social Work: Meet Stephanie

    Written by: Corina Chen and the CareerVillage.org Team “I always signed up for the college or virtual talk to talk to a current student. I picked up that habit because of the advice I received on CareerVillage.“ – Stephanie An ad plays telling you the next Great Chicken Nugget is on sale tomorrow at your nearest McDonalds.…

  • The Student Perspective: Meet Augusta

    The Student Perspective: Meet Augusta

    Written by: Corina Chen and the CareerVillage.org Team “CareerVillage has helped me answer the questions that came to my mind that I didn’t think reading a book would be able to answer in the specificity I needed.” -Augusta Augusta first joined CareerVillage in 2013 when she was in high school and first started thinking about college. “All of a…