Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Jobs, Motivation on Apr 24th, 2008
Trent over at The Simple Dollar has a great exercise in one of his posts for everyone out there that has a traditional job. He puts his readers in a hypothetical situation: pretend you will be fired on Friday (it came out on Saturday so you’d have the whole week to think about it). What [...]
Posted in Jobs on Jan 22nd, 2008
For the past few months I have been reading tons of articles with tips for job seekers. Over and over, there were a few tips I kept seeing repeated over and over:
Networking is the most important thing (which relates to the next bullet)
Tell everyone you know that you are looking for a job
Don’t bother putting [...]
Posted in Ad Friday, Advertising on Nov 2nd, 2007
It’s time for the second edition of Ad Friday.
Thanks to everyone who commented or emailed about last week’s edition, I really appreciate it. As a great tie in to this week, I attended a networking event last night hosted by my school called “Networking in Advertising and Marketing.”
It was more about Marketing and none of [...]
Posted in Jobs on Oct 17th, 2007
One of the best places I’ve found to network is your college or university’s website. Find their alumni services page and see if they have an alumni network or alumni career services.
My undergrad school and my graduate school both have them and they allow you to search by industry, job title, location, and all kinds [...]
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