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Top 10 Ways to Love Your Job (No Matter What You Do)

Sometimes when you’re in the early stages of your career, you have to do something less than glamorous. By sometimes I mean ‘most of the time.’ Very rarely do we get to start our …

Written by Ryan Ferguson

What Startups Partner with Praxis?

The Praxis program would not be possible without our great business partners who hire participants for apprenticeships. Participants work in paid apprenticeships which means there is real responsibility, hard challenges, and a high expectation …

Written by Lolita Allgyer

4 Tips to Accelerate Your Apprenticeship Experience

An apprenticeship offers the perfect learning environment for any young adult who wants to accelerate his career. Unlike a typical internship or an entry-level job, the expectations during an apprenticeship provide an atmosphere for …

Written by Olivia Donaldson

How to Make a Salary Requirement

This question was recently asked on an episode of Office Hours: “After finishing my apprenticeship, my employer is ready to bring me on full time. They’ve asked me to make a salary requirement. I …

Written by Olivia Donaldson

Stop Trying to Escape Your Day Job to Live Your Dream

An Office Hours listener recently asked this question, “How do I build my dreams when I’m working full time at a job that isn’t related to my dream? I want to be a professional …

Written by Olivia Donaldson

How to make your opinions heard in the workplace

“I have lots of stuff to say about how to make improvements in our workplace and I work at a job where we have regular meetings where employees are encouraged to share this kind …

Written by Isaac Morehouse

Why Non-Tech People Should Work in Tech Startups

“Software is eating the world.” — Marc Andreessen There are several factors that make tech startups the most exciting companies on the planet right now. Dramatically reduced cost of starting one, due to cloud …

Written by Hannah Frankman

Wednesday Wrap-Up: Getting Shit Done Workshop w/ Amanda Grimmett

Every week at Praxis, participants and alumni gather for Praxis Wednesdays, weekly group sessions designed to hone intellectual ability and build practical skills applicable to the professional world. These sessions cover everything from academic …

Written by Sara Morrison

Show Your Hustle

I don’t care what your major was. I don’t care where you went to school. We want to see hustle. This comes from the latest episode of the “Skimm’d from the Couch” podcast by …

Written by Chuck Grimmett

How to Get Your GitHub Profile Ready For Job Applications

If you are going out for a development job or any sort of technical job, especially if you don’t have a lot of professional experience in the field, the best thing you can do …

Written by T.K. Coleman

Never Apologize For Flipping Burgers

“Take pride in your work at all times.” -Ford Frick I’ll begin with two brief quotes from two separate friends: Quote #1: “As a hiring manager, Chik-fil-a was always a slam dunk. Everyone I …

Written by Chuck Grimmett

How to Get Work Done: A Primer

Here are the three pillars of getting work done. If you are having trouble with staying on top of your work, chances are that it comes back to one of these three main areas. …

Written by Isaac Morehouse

Your Problem is You Don’t Have Enough Problems

The more action you want to take, the more solutions you want to gain, the more you want to achieve, the more problems you’ve gotta have. Problems lead to questions, questions lead to discovery, discovery leads to progress.

Written by Cameron Sorsby

How to Standout as a Startup Candidate

The difference between landing that exciting job offer and maintaining the middle of the pack candidate status is so often proving to your potential employer you have those valuable mindsets that are so rare …

Written by Nicholas Kleinhuizen

5 Skills I Acquired Working at a Tech Startup

The following is a repost from the blog of Praxis participant Nicholas Kleinhuizen. A couple of months ago, my life drastically changed. I went from being a college dropout who lived at home to working …

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