Are you remarkable? Ditch the resume!

Marketing guru Seth Godin recently made a shocking statement…
“I think if you’re remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume at all.”
Go read his blog post and learn why you shouldn’t have a resume and the 4 things you can do to impress a future employer.
Quick tip: Seth’s blog is a [...]

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3 Keys to Networking and Branding

1. Just start - Whether it’s StumbleUpon account, introducing yourself to a colleague for lunch, or creating a blog you’ve got to start somewhere. Why wait till tomorrow, when you can begin today? Networks and brands take time to build. Remember, a great reputation is the most difficult thing to build [...]

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Online Resumes: Differentiate or be Unemployed.

Going off of Chris’s post and our class discussion, this post is about the problems facing students trying to find a job. And it’s also a continuation of my post on using your name as a website and protecting your reputation.
What can a student do to differentiate themselves from their peers?
What can you hand [...]

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Land That Job

Continuing upon what we talked about last night, I came across www.climber.com in the WSJ today. Excerpt from WSJ - “Visitors to 9 month old climber.com are prompted to answer about 25 questions on qualification topics… and results in a personal profile. Climber works with roughly 40 corporate clients and sends them profiles [...]

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access your life | humyo file storage

It's every student's worst nightmare. You're walking to class, trip, and then suddenly your [semi]productive academic life is over. Your laptop hits the pavement and sojourns to where all good laptops go when they die.
Wait… don't despair! If you use this amazing new tool, your academic career can soldier on. humyo is a new [...]

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Inside New Tech Venturess

 http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/
Provides daily updates on new tech ventures, and where they are receiving funding from.  There’s still a lot of money to be made in Web 2.0 and this site shows you where the funds are being invested.  The AlarmClock team does a great job keeping tabs on international developments.  While Facebook, Youtube, Ebay and Google [...]

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Do you want to protect your career?

In class we touched on using Facebook to profile yourself to an employer. I'd like to take that a step further… Currently, as you are going into the job market, the key to your success is "differentiation". I submit that one of the best things you can do is give your prospective employer a [...]

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