// I’ve found that most students who actually conduct informational interviews receive the following benefits: They learn about particular industries, companies, and possible job opportunities and leads They learn about career paths with particular college majors They get to meet new people or get to know acquaintances better They get to improve their networking...
// 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...
// 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...
// 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...
