Posts Tagged: Twitter
On CareerTV: Twitter, LinkedIn and Living in Your Parents’ Basement
Posted in Career Advice for Young Professionals Getting from College to Career Job Search Tips Recommended Career Resources Social Media on August 24, 2009 at 11:47 am
This week I’m launching a new regular video segment with my friends at CareerTV. I’ll be chatting via Skype each week with host Sean O’Grady about timely career issues.
In our first five-minute segment, we’re answering viewer questions about finding jobs on Twitter, connecting professionally on LinkedIn and surviving when you move back home with mom and dad (hint: lay off the frozen yogurt).
Watch the video here.
Have questions you’d like us to address in future CareerTV segments? Please share in the comments section below!
Personal Branding and Your Job Search: An Interview with Dan Schawbel
Posted in Career Advice for Young Professionals Generation Y/Millennials Recommended Career Resources Social Media on April 7, 2009 at 8:26 am
As the job market becomes more and more competitive, students and recent grads need to do everything they can to stand out from their peers. One great way to do this is by building your professional reputation, also known as your “personal brand.”
For advice on creating your personal brand – and using it to help you land a great job – I turned to Dan Schawbel, the leading personal branding expert for Generation Y. Dan is the author of the brand new book, Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), as well as the publisher of the Personal Branding Blog and Personal Branding Magazine.
I recently had the opportunity to interview Dan. Note that I’ve posted excerpts of this interview on other blogs, but the full text of our interview is only available here:
Lindsey: How do you define personal branding?
Dan: Personal branding is the process by which we market ourselves to other people. The process that I’ve developed in my new book, Me 2.0, is “discover, create, communicate and maintain (DCCM).”
The first step in this process is to discover what you’re passionate about and your area of expertise, while establishing goals and forming both a development plan and a personal marketing plan.
The second step is to create marketing materials, which could include a business card, portfolio, website, blog, social network profiles, a podcast, a video resume, as well as traditional documents like a resume and cover letter.
The third step is to become your own personal PR person and communicate your brand to others through speaking engagements, commenting on blogs, writing for magazines, pitching journalists and more.
The final step is to maintain your brand, which consists of online reputation management and keeping your profiles up-to-date and accurate with changes in your career.
Lindsey: You are in your 20s. How have you established yourself as a personal branding expert at such a young age? (more…)
Tags: Dan Scawbel, Me 2.0, Personal Branding, Twitter
How to get free career advice from 50 top career advisers
Posted in Career Advice for Young Professionals Job Search Tips Networking and Personal Branding Recommended Career Resources Social Media on February 4, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Could that headline possibly be overselling the content of this blog post?
Nope.
There is an easy, free — and fun — way to get free career advice (and much more) from some of the best career advisers in the country. It’s all happening on Twitter.
Willy Franzen, of One Day, One Job and Found Your Career, has put together an excellent list of “50 Twitter Users to Follow for Your Job Search.” I’m honored to be on the list and happy to see many of my favorite career bloggers, authors and speakers on the list as well. (If you’d like to follow me — and please do! — I’m @lindseypollak.)
All of the people on this list use their Twitter feeds to share career advice articles, job search tips, real job and internship opportunities, event announcements and much more. If you’re not on Twitter, you’re missing out on a tremendous amount of free and valuable information. (Yes, you’re also missing out on silly photos, descriptions of what people are eating for lunch and a fair amount of procrastination, but it’s easy to find the valuable content on Twitter. The rest makes it really fun.)
I’d also like to add a few additional Twitterers that I recommend, although I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch — will add in the comments when I remember.
Alexandra Levit (@alevit) – blogger and author of How’d You Score that Gig and The Don’t Teach Corporate in College
Chandlee Bryan (@chandlee) – career coach, resume writer and blogger
Diane K. Danielson (@DowntownWoman) – CEO of the Downtown Women’s Club and blogger at The Women’s Dish
Guy Kawasaki (@guykawasaki) – one of the most popular Tweeters, who often posts links to articles on making the best use of Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media
Please share your favorite career-related tweeters in the Comments section below, and be sure to check out Willy Franzen’s list — you won’t regret it!
