Career Connector Blog
Are you a good networker, even a great one? Do you invest plenty of time in LinkedIn, steadily building your contacts and sharing posts and other information with the group? Are you a faithful tweeter? Do you tend to see the possibilities in people, wanting to meet them instead of worrying about wasting your time?
Read MoreI have a number of presentations and workshops coming up this fall, and I’ve been thinking about how to structure my talks for maximum value and interest. In my research, I found a Tim Sanders blog post with a phrase that particularly bears repeating: “Do your research about the audience, where they need to be moved to, and how that intersects with your expertise or experiences.”
Read MoreUpon meeting someone new, virtually my first question is always: “What kind of work do you do?” Typically followed by “How did you get your start?”
Read MoreThis is a guest post by HR consultant Judy Lindenberger on one of my favorite topics: standing out on LinkedIn.
I love LinkedIn. It’s one of the best networking tools out there to help you expand your reach. It’s “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” for the business world. But it can be a big, foreign maze. To stand out in the LinkedIn crowd, here are ten quick tips:
Read MorePenelope Trunk’s blog post today on what college students should do now offers some great wisdom. But the one tip that really caught my eye was her suggestion to take a Myers-Briggs test to understand what you’re good at. She also suggests that if your score doesn’t agree with your chosen major, you should change it.
Read MoreIn my line of work I spend a lot of time reviewing peoples’ profiles on sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, et al. One of the biggest mistakes people make is having a less than appropriate photo on their profile.
Read MoreI recently read two blog posts about the importance of communicating effectively in order to advance your career. On their resumes, most people offer that they have “excellent communication skills”—an exaggeration on the part of most people and also a very subjective thing to gauge.
Read MoreDan Schawbel, the Gen Y personal branding guru, wrote a post last week that resonated with me on a number of levels.
Read MoreI just read a depressing statistic about the job market for new grads. According to a new study by Rutgers University, U.S. college graduates from 2011 have almost half of the graduates from 2010 to compete with in the job market.
Read MoreHere’s something I see a lot of Gen Y internship and job seekers doing that is very unproductive: applying to only one thing at a time.
Read MoreI read an excellent blog post on Brazen Careerist called “Are Recent College Grads a Lost Generation?”
After citing the high unemployment rates for recent college grads, the author argues that little is currently being made of the excellent co-op programs that universities like Northeastern have relied on for many years. A co-op program enables students to take semesters off to work in positions related to their subject and career interests, making them excellent candidates for hire upon graduation.
Read MoreBack in May, the New York Times wrote an article slamming law school and the profession in general.
Read MoreToday’s New York Times features a front page article entitled “Many with New College Degree Find the Job Market Humbling”.
Read MoreI read a post citing research claiming that only 27% of Millenials prefer to work full-time than to freelance. Now granted, this survey was conducted by Upwork, a freelancers’ website, but even so, that figure disturbed me.
Read MoreOn May 11th I attended the second annual Wall Street Women’s Forum, a great event put on by RegentAtlantic Capital’s Jane Newton. It’s a speaker series bringing together 100 senior women who work on and around Wall Street, to help them navigate their careers while networking with one another.
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