{"id":7098,"date":"2015-05-11T15:43:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T15:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:05:51","slug":"you-graduated-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2015\/05\/11\/you-graduated-now-what\/","title":{"rendered":"You Graduated, Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI graduated\u2026so, now what do I do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many recent graduates are faced with this daunting question not long after commencement\u00a0and\u00a0don\u2019t exactly know how\u00a0to answer it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe find that when FIU students graduate they feel somewhat abandoned or lost by the system. What do they do next? And how do they acquire and achieve their job goals after school has ended?\u201d shared Grace Llan Quevedo \u201897.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing there was\u00a0need for programming of this kind, FIU alumni Llan Quevedo and Carmen Sabbagh \u201979 created the workshop \u201cYou\u2019ve Graduated, Now What?<em>\u201d<\/em> as a way to adequately prepare graduates for this next step.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignleft size-medium wp-image-7101\" src=\"https:\/\/fiualumni-eastus.azurewebsites.net\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CBn12YQVIAEWBTQ-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CBn12YQVIAEWBTQ\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>On April 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, about 15 recent graduates attended the workshop and heard from these Human Resource professionals with invaluable career advice to impart.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to help graduates who may be struggling with entering the workforce, the topics discussed included job market research, resume types, resume and reference building, and the dos &amp; don&#8217;ts of an interview. There was also an open forum to address any other career related questions the graduates may have had.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t end there. Some attendees even continue\u00a0communicating with Llan Quevedo and Sabbagh months after the workshop for continued resume and job search advice.<\/p>\n<p>Missed this year&#8217;s workshop? Keep your eyes peeled because Llan Quevedo and Sabbagh plan to make\u00a0&#8220;You&#8217;ve Graduated, Now What?&#8221; a yearly occurence!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI graduated\u2026so, now what do I do?\u201d Many recent graduates are faced with this daunting question not long after commencement\u00a0and\u00a0don\u2019t exactly know how\u00a0to answer it. \u201cWe find that when FIU students graduate they feel somewhat abandoned or lost by the system. What do they do next? And how do they acquire and achieve their job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[206,393],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-development","tag-career-development","tag-young-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15348,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions\/15348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}