by sean@higheredcareercoach.com | Jan 20, 2010 | Job Search, Take 5
There’s a lot of talk in marketing about “branding,” but it’s also useful to look at your job search in a similar light. After all, you are selling your most important product: yourself. For your consideration, here are five articles that explore the concept of personal branding in the job search.
- Kristi Daeda, a Success Coach and Creator of the Career Adventure blog, has many good articles on her own blog, and I regularly read her articles and follow her on Twitter. She offers a great perspectives on how to get feedback from others about your personal brand in an article she wrote for another site, Brand Camp University. Personal branding: It’s not what you say.
- Brand-Yourself.com has a great 10-step Personal Branding Worksheet to help you define “your unique value proposition.”
- There’s a great article at BrazenCareerist.com by Ryan Stephens on why you should “Stay true to your personal brand” during your job search.
- The Personal Branding Blog is a top resource on the topic of personal branding. Spearheaded by Dan Schawbel, the Author of Me 2.0, it has many articles, interviews and tips to help you build you brand. It was hard picking an article to highlight because there are so many good ones, but I settled on “Brand yourself for the job you want in three years” by Katie Konrath.
- Career Rocketeer has a great article exploring the differences between making an effective presentation and effectively conveying your character before, during and after the interview.
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by sean@higheredcareercoach.com | Dec 11, 2009 | Take 5
Today’s Higher Ed professionals often feel like dinosaurs, in comparison to their students, who are connected 24-7-365 to each other and just about everyone else via various social media tools and websites. Here are five resources on the web to help you get up to speed on social media.
Social Media Can both Connect and Confuse!
by sean@higheredcareercoach.com | Sep 10, 2009 | Take 5
This week, I’ll wander away a bit from higher ed-specific sites and concentrate on careers. Here are five links to sites and articles with great career advice and perspectives. Enjoy!
My Nine Careers: Lessons Learned Career coach Marty Nemko shares his meandering career path and some simple lessons he took away from them.
Going Above and Beyond: Distinguishing Yourself as a Job Seeker What can you learn about going the extra mile from buying a laptop at Staples.
Screw Your Career Path, Live Your Story by Jason Seiden is a thought-provoking piece that may help shift your thinking about careers.
The Ladders has a great article about how Volunteering can pay off in your job search.
and for some basic interview advice, slanted toward working in student affairs. . . here’s a post I wrote for the Student Affairs Collaborative Blog last April… “They Wouldn’t Listen to the Fact that I was a Genius: 20 Ways to Blow Your On-Campus Interview.”
If you have good articles or resources worth sharing, e-mail me at sean@higheredcareercoach.com and I may share in a future edition of Take 5.
Thanks for dropping by.
by sean@higheredcareercoach.com | Aug 31, 2009 | Take 5
Five more sites worth exploring if you work in higher education. Some you will know; others you will not:
- The Student Affairs Collaborative Blog: this blog accepts submissions from higher education/student affairs professionals on a variety of topics. I am a semi-regular contributor, so this is borderline self-promotion.
- HigherEdLifeCoach. Okay, so this one is shameless self-promotion. This is my other site where I write about college student and parent issues, and serves as a front-end to my life and career-coaching practice. (Life and career coaching for students, transition coaching for their parents.)
- University Parent. A great web site and resource for parents of college students.
- Women in Higher Education provides tips and advice for Women in Higher Education.
- 18 and Life by Debra Sanborn (Iowa State) bills itself as Reflections on the first-year college experience and building a career on “the wisdom of 18-year olds.”
by sean@higheredcareercoach.com | Aug 17, 2009 | Take 5
One of the key differences to having a job versus having a career is simple enough: taking an interest in current topics and trends. There are plenty of sources for information and inspiration out there, so I will periodically give you 5 quick and dirty takes on websites and resources you can visit, to keep up with issues and trends in higher education.
Inside HigherEd (Magazine and Website that covers a wide variety of issues on campus.)
Top 10 State Issues in Higher Education (Report from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.)
Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Magazine and Website exploring diversity in higher education.)
Top Ten IT Issues in Higher Education from Educause. Technology seems to drive innovation in higher education. Lack of access to IT training and resources can stifle that same innovation. Here’s an overview of current IT issues in higher ed.
On Higher-Education Spending, the White House and Congress Agree, to a Point An interesting read on the different approaches Congress and the President are taking in relation to higher ed funding. From the Chronicle of Higher Education.
So take 5 minutes to skim the articles above, and if they interest you, bookmark them to Delicious or Evernote, so you can revisit them later. I hope to make “Take 5” a recurring article on this blog, to help readers keep up with happenings out in the broader world of higher education.
Thanks for stopping by.
