// A term typically used in marketing has now emerged as a significant career development trend – brand. Your personal brand is a representation of your professional and, subsequently, career brand, and the web provides the best path to create and cultivate such a brand. In a previous post, we discussed the importance of...
// Google launched a social networking service called “Buzz” last week on Feb. 9 for all gmail users. Within days, users had already made millions of posts and comments. Not surprisingly, it’s become quite the hot topic among both the social media and mainstream media camps as the headlines seem to focus on how...
// I first bookmarked the Quintessential Careers website about ten years ago, when I first started in the career education field. Throughout the years, this resource has become a go-to website. Description This website, located at quintcareers.com, offers A LOT of useful career related information through mainly articles and the recent addition of e-books....
// In honor of Valentine’s Day today, we present a special Valentine’s Day 2010 post. Instead of posting about why we love our significant others (because that kind of a list would be simply too long, right?), we’ll post 5 things that we love about our jobs. Andrea’s List (what I love about my...
// Don’t let the title fool you. How to Interview Like a Top MBA: Job-Winning Strategies From Headhunters, Fortune 100 Recruiters, and Career Counselors is a book that anyone can use to help improve their interviewing skills. I have referred a large number of the students that I work with to this book, and...
// When you hear the words “career planning,” what comes to mind? Here are some answers I have heard: Interesting. Exciting. I would love to do it, but I don’t know where to start. Boring. A drag. I’m too young to think about my career; I’ll do it later. It won’t help me anyway;...
// Do you use Facebook? Put up videos on YouTube? Belong to Linkedin? Participate in other websites where you post personal thoughts, pics, or videos? Have you just ever tried googling yourself? Though the results and implications of putting your information out there in cyberspace mainly depends on what you put out there and...
// The U.S. Department of Labor recently sponsored a challenge that they called, “Tools for America’s Job Seekers Challenge.” I caught the tail end of this 3-month challenge and managed to sign up to vote for some of the websites that folks submitted. Last week, I received an e-mail from the “DOL Challenge Team”...
// CEOs come and they go but recently the CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz, resigned from his position via Twitter. According to many outlets, this was the first time that a Fortune 200 CEO has ever done this. I have always found Schwartz interesting because he was one of the early adopters among...
