These offerings provide the opportunity for students and young alumni to explore potential career paths, sharpen networking and other "real world" skills and land interviews with employers interested in hiring alumni of their school.

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It helps you clearly see the type of person who will be successful in the position, provides a roadmap of questions to ask during interviews, highlights skills to be tested, and delivers input from others that will either corroborate first impressions or highlight disconnects.

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