By Dr. Lindsey Plewa , Deputy Director and Career Coach at the Graduate Career Management Center Lately I’ve been having conversations with graduate students and alumni who are seeking internships or full-time jobs and want to know how they should spend their time over winter break. Here are 3 tips: 1. REST You’ve heard the phrase “you can't pour from an empty cup,” right? Usually this refers to helping other people and how you can’t help others unless you yourself are on solid ground. This is also applicable to job search. How can you give your time and energy to doing anything job search related if you’re feeling completely depleted? Once finals are over, take some time to rest. For some, that may mean literally that…sleep or a day to “ hurkel-durkel ”. For others, it may mean reading a book, listening to a podcast, going to the gym, or bingeing a show. Whatever it is you do to recharge, do that first. Rest IS productive. 2. RECONNECT The holiday season is the perfect time to rec...