Tips and Best Practices

How to Engage Younger Talent

Here’s how your organization can engage the next generation of workers.

Commit to corporate social responsibility

Gen Z cares about social ethos, wanting to make their mark better than previous generations. And many younger workers care more about social and …

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10 Eye-opening Strategies to Diversity Recruiting

Generating diversity awareness and finding diverse talent is one of the top challenges for organizations today. How can your organization better connect with, market to, and recruit minority students and graduates? The answer is complex but begins with developing a …

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3 Rules for Engaging Millennial and Gen Z Talent in the Workplace

Understanding the new generation of talent

To understand how to engage and motivate this new generation of talent, corporations need to examine their needs through a human lens. Motivation psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan found that all humans have 
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Explore Your Career Options with PDCO

Are you considering different career paths after your PhD or postdoctoral training but the realities leave you stressed? If you’re a JHU student, the Personal Development and Career Office (PDCO) can help you out. With their assistance, you can find …

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Redesigners for Justice: the leaders we need for an equitable future

At Creative Reaction Lab, we are keenly aware of the power of narrative in shaping perspectives and outcomes across identities and are especially intent on amplifying and centering the voices and narratives of those who have been ignored, erased, or …

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Disability, Diversity and Inclusion Resources at Homewood

The Life Design Lab is here to serve students of all backgrounds and identities, and help you reach your individual goals. Here are some resources, where job seekers with all backgrounds can find information.

Disability Resources
The Job Accommodation Network …

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Asking for Letters of Recommendation

Written by Tracy Smith, Director of Undergraduate Research, The Johns Hopkins University Potential employers, scholarship and grant selection committees, and graduate school admissions offices depend heavily on recommendation letters to gain insight into applicants’ personal strengths, weaknesses and accomplishments. This kind …

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Modern Mentoring: the 5 levels of listening

How good of a listener would you say you are? Mentoring Evangelist Aya Titus breaks down the different types of listening mentors and mentees need to strive for in order to create successful mentoring relationships. For more tips, check out …

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Turn Mentoring Conversations into Actions

Your mentoring conversations are critical to your success. Without good dialogue, your mentoring relationship could lack focus, intent, and follow-through. Don’t let your mentoring relationship suffer!
Here are tips from River on how to get more from your mentoring conversations. …

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5 Questions You Should Ask as a Mentee

It can be overwhelming to try to figure out what you want to gain from mentoring (it can sometimes feel like that childhood question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”). But if you pull apart the …

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