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Life After Graduation: Navigating the Job Market and Making the Transition
You've crossed the stage, received your diploma, and now the real adventure begins – navigating the job market. Transitioning from college to the professional world can be exciting and daunting. However, you can pave the way for a successful career with a strategic approach and mindset.
Getting Unstuck: Long and Short-Term Decision-Making Tools
Most students will feel stuck at some point during the educational process. Whether it's related to academic decisions, career choices, or personal life, many individuals find themselves at a crossroads, overwhelmed by the complexity of decision-making.
Balancing Family Life and Academics: 5 Essential Tips for Military Students
Student veterans often juggle the demands of coursework, assignments, and exams while maintaining family commitments. These five essential tips will help you navigate between your roles.
10 Tips for Student Veterans Preparing for a New Semester
Ten tips to help you excel in your studies and maximize your university experience.
Do You Know If You Are Enrolled in VA Health Care?
Bridget Leach, LCSW of the San Francisco VA Health Care System, shares about outreach, enrollment, and coordinating care in the Bay Area for Student Veterans.
Student Steps to Success: Getting Started
Whether you are just in the information-gathering or consideration stages of beginning or restarting your education or confidently approaching the starting line, there are a few factors to keep in mind. To be successful, these five steps are crucial.
Meet Jenna: Career Programs and Outreach Manager
Meet Jenna Piva Laramie, the Career Programs and Outreach Manager at the Helen Diller Center for Veterans of US Military Service at Golden Gate University. Jenna has an 11-year military spouse background, and her experiences have led her to help military-connected students with their career development. In this blog post, we will get to know Jenna, her professional background, her connection to the military, and the services she offers specifically at the Diller Center.
Meet Miles Dodge: Golden Gate University's Military Student Onboarding Coach
Miles is a commissioned officer in the National Guard with over 20 years of military experience. This post will discuss his role as the Military Student Onboarding Coach and how he supports military students at GGU.
Military Scholarship Flyover
Huge list of scholarship opportunities for veterans, military spouses, and family members.
Why Veterans Should Consider Project Management
Project management is really a set of tools, which is why GGU made the decision to make it more compatible with other fields.
Things to Keep in Mind When Transferring College Credits
In a perfect world, transferring college credits would be as easy as looking at how many credits you previously earned.
Why do I Have to Take a Placement Test?
The purpose of a placement test is to gauge the math and English proficiency of incoming first-year students
Tips to Prepare You for Your Next Virtual Interview
Virtual interviews allow both the hiring manager and the potential employee to get a better feel for how they may work together, without costing anyone extra time or money.
7 LinkedIn Profile Tips for Veterans
Like it or not, networking is part of the long game in the civilian world and you don't get a pass because of your veteran status.
Why You Should Visit GGU’s Free Legal Clinic
All veterans of all branches are welcome at the legal clinic, where the services are provided at no cost to the veteran.
Thinking About a Career in Technology?
VetsInTech is an organization that supports veterans pursuing careers, education and entrepreneurship opportunities in the technology sector.
How the GGU Veterans Legal Advocacy Center Was Born
The on-campus law firm is staffed by students, who represent veterans in the community.
Are You Eligible for More Tuition Help with Yellow Ribbon?
In some cases, Post-9/11 GI Bill®️ benefits don’t cover everything. That’s where the Yellow Ribbon Program comes in. And at GGU, it comes in big.