// I’m scheduled to deliver a presentation for my college counseling colleagues at work tomorrow, and I cannot wait. I’ll be discussing the career exploration classes that I get to teach every quarter. Since many of my colleagues refer students to these classes, I wanted to share with them in a little more detail...
// A new academic quarter starts up next week and I plan to introduce a personal branding unit during week 3 or week 4 of my two career exploration classes. I’ve learned so much about personal branding in recent months, and I’m very eager to incorporate its core principles and strategies into a lesson...
// If you’re in college and looking for a job or internship, hopefully you’re fully prepared for the job or internship search by having already learned as much as you can about not only the basic, but also the more advanced, job search strategies. I shared in a previous post that the best time...
// As we’ve previously talked about the importance of protecting your online image and the follow-up concept of career branding, this post focuses on the direct connection between the two. It’s now time to ask, “What is your career brand?” With the number of Twitter and Facebook users just going up and up, it...
// 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...
