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Does your future career require you to pass a test & get a license?

With the fast growth of ACT-SAT test-optional for college admission due to Covid, high school students may think they’ve escaped such standardized exams forever. But I caution students to not jump to that conclusion. Occupation Licenses According to the US Department of Labor’s Career OneStop site, “By state laws, workers in certain fields must have […]

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My New Student Intern Stood Out from Other Applicants – Want to Know Why?

Blog / By Lisa Marker Robbins

It can be challenging for high school students and college students to land paid internships and build their resumes. As an employer, with a team of 35 part-time and full-time members, we have a limited capacity to take on interns. My heart, as a college major-career coach working in the college counseling space, is to

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What Being A College Counselor Taught Me

Blog / By Lisa Marker Robbins

I started my original company in 1999 and for the first decade, our focus was academic tutoring, test prep, and college counseling. My personal passion was college counseling…finding the right fit colleges and assisting with the application process. Sometimes some students hit snags during our process that we’d diligently work to solve. Other students sometimes

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Why Curated Career Experiences are Invaluable

Blog / By Lisa Marker Robbins

Meet Nate. He graduates high school with a lucrative scholarship guaranteeing practically free college at a state flagship university. He had the grades, the SAT scores, the extracurriculars to prove he was worthy of this award. During his freshman year, Nate was performing well academically and doing the “experimenting” recommended by his college and the

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High School Student Creates an Organization

Steps for High School Students Creating an Organization

Blog / By Lisa Marker Robbins

Sophia Chabris, class of 2022 at Indian Hill High School in Cincinnati, created Corona Care Callers, an organization at her high school where tenth through twelfth graders served as a personal connection for younger students isolated to online school during Covid. In her words…. During the Stay-at-Home order in March, I was unable to see

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Advice For Securing High School Internships

Blog / By Lisa Marker Robbins

Internships for high school students can be challenging to find and difficult to secure but are game-changers in helping guide both high school and college students towards that best-fit first career after graduation. Loveland City Schools in the Greater Cincinnati area has joined a growing number of school districts throughout the US that are taking

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How to Write College Supplemental Essays on Why Your Major

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Why My College Major Essay When applying to college not only do high school students need to identify the college major to which they are applying, many schools will also require an essay explaining Why My Major. As my guest, Betsy Cadel of College Essay Helpers explains, in her opinion, supplemental essays can be even more

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Career Planning for Neurodivergent High School Students

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When parents of high school students request to join my Facebook Community, Launch Career Clarity, I ask them…. If you could wave a magic wand and pick a topic I would cover in a blog or post, what would it be? Among the common topics, there are regular themes including what are resources, or does

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How to Use Personality Assessments for College Major – Career Coaching

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By the mid-point of 10th grade, it’s time for college-bound high school students to begin considering what comes after graduation. By the beginning of the senior year, college applicants will be faced with what can feel like a daunting question: To which college major are you applying? It’s an important question that has future implications

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Let’s Talk College Podcast

Blog / By Lisa Marker Robbins

Shane Bybee’s college counseling client was completing her high school plan. When faced with questions related to possible college majors and careers, the family was stumped. The parents admitted they had a very limited idea of what careers were out there. Like many students on the college-bound journey, the student only had concrete ideas on

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