// If you had asked me two years ago if I was on Twitter, and what I thought about it, I would have said, “No” and “What’s the point?” If you had asked me six years ago if I was on Facebook, and what I thought about it, I would have had the same...
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Eight Career Planning Tips for the Not-So-Recent College Graduate
// In a “perfect” world, you start the career exploration and planning process while you are still in school, getting a degree that will eventually lead to a job. But what if that’s not where you are at? What if it’s been a few (or more) years since you were in school? Maybe you...
Career Planning Using Social Media: Not Just for Job Seekers
// Career planning and development consists of multiple components. Unfortunately, most social media tools seem to focus on only the job search aspect of career planning and development. Yet, even if you are a student who is currently not on the job or internship hunt, I still strongly recommend that you become familiar and...
Update on Personal Branding, Your Online Image, and Trends in Social Media
// I’ve previously written about personal branding and the importance of cultivating and maintaining a professional online image. Just as social media tools have become permanent fixtures in many lives, they continue to play greater roles in career planning. The three articles below represent some of my recent findings on this topic of personal...
Time To Branch Out! A New Web Service That Joins Facebook and LinkedIn
// Most people I know use Facebook to keep up with their friends and family, while forging and maintaining professional relationships on LinkedIn. Most of us are aware how we use Facebook to share comments, information, pictures, and videos with our friends and family. LinkedIn was developed to meet new professional contacts, while keeping...
The Importance of Relationship Building
// The importance of relationship building is well documented, especially in the business world. This may be review to those whose livelihoods (and their ability to earn an income) depend on their ability to sell goods or services. As a salesperson, your chances of being able to sell something increase if you maintain a...
Smartphones and Social Media Vol. 2 – LinkedIn
// This post is a continuation of a short series of posts that detail how the world of social media and your “career toolbox” have merged together on the Smartphone. In the first edition in this series, I spoke at length about Twitter and how I use my Smartphone to keep me connected. The...
Smartphones and Social Media
// Doesn’t it seem like everyone has a Smartphone these days? I see people using their Smartphone walking around the SJSU campus, at the movies, or even the gym. It seems like everyone is on one. But, what are they doing on them? I know there are millions of things to do, but one of...
It’s Not Who You Know But Who Knows You
// One of my favorite questions to ask whenever I talk about networking, be it in my career exploration classes or to individual students, is something like: “Have you heard of the saying ‘It’s all about who you know’ when it comes to getting a job or finding out about job opportunities?” Most, if...
