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Can Blogging Help Your Career? An introduction...
The various uses and benefits of blogging
Let’s get this out of the way first. Blogs are online journals, incredibly easy to publish, with powerful abilities to link between posts (individual entries), and between other blogs. Bloggers write and post short messages and ideas and comments. They write articles. They link to relevant posts from other sites on the web, and they can publish audio and photos on to their blog. Blogs make it really easy as a reader to follow your favourite sites by subsc…
Career Development During the Holidays Series: The Social Phase
Of course, during the Holidays, you have competing demands for your time and attention. Parties to attend. If you celebrate Christmas, shopping and preparation to do. The lead-up to Christmas is a natural time for socializing. While your schedule may be crammed, there is a career development opportunity.
1. Build Ties within your organization
The Holidays are a natural time to solidify ties within your place of work. Let’s face it. The bonds between colleagues can get stretched. Difficult decision…
On Thank-You Notes
Heather Hamilton at Microsoft has a superb blog.
Any long-time readers here and my clients will know that I am a strong advocate of the hand-written post-interview thank-you note.
In my opinion, Heather has nailed the subject with her recent post:
Heather’s “Marketing and Finance at Microsoft” Blog : Post-interview ‘Thank You’ notes
Pamphleteering: Finding your voice
Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, once the printing press had become more common, there was a self-publishing phenomenon. Books, yes, but from what I understand a great deal of pamphlets, or what we might understand as articles, white papers, and booklets. For political purposes. For scientific glory. For vanity. For scandal.
Great titles like "The Migratory Habits of the Peruvian Mudhatch, Modestly Proposed by a Gentleman."
The means of publishing had become accessible enough that people were …
Be the Star Attraction of Your Own Network
How would you like to establish yourself as the hub of an expanding network? Organizing and hosting your own networking events is a smart way to accomplish this.Read my latest Monster.com article...Be the Star Attraction of Your Own Network.
Creative Networking 1
I am telling you, it is a powerful way to go …
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