By Analisa Price, UCS Career Peers Director
Last Thursday, the Daily Tar Heel’s opinion page featured an
editorial on our work here at Career Services. Their stance: UCS has awesome
resources that go under-utilized due to a lack of outreach and student
awareness. As the Director of the Career Peers program, it’s my job to oversee
peer outreach and mentorship on behalf of the office, so for obvious reasons
this article stayed on my mind for the past few days.
Networking. It’s a scary word, and most first-year students probably have no idea where to start. While UCS does hold official networking nights (called "meetups"), they may seem pretty intimidating and not useful this
early in your college career. But networking is
a really important skill, and it’s unexpectedly easy to start
networking on a small-scale as early as your first or second semester of
college. 