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Live Your Passion!

College is a time of excitement, new beginnings, and possibility. I remember walking onto campus at Hamilton College my freshman year feeling like anything was possible. Yet, as senior year crept up on me, I began to feel the weight of reality settle in. Many of my peers (including me) began scrambling to get internships, [...]

Find a Career You Love (and Never Settle for Less)

Hey, you. Yes, you, the one reading this right now. I’m going to guess that if you are anything like many of your peers, you aren’t 100% sure of what it is you want to do in the future (the one that feels like it’s sneaking up uncomfortably fast). Maybe you have some sense of [...]

Live Your Truth

The world lost somewhere between 50,000 to 200,000 lives in Haiti due to the 7.0 earthquake earlier this week.
Can you even imagine? Can you imagine sitting at school or eating at your dining table at home, and all of a sudden, something unexpected and unavoidable literally shakes your whole world?
At studentbranding.com, one of our main [...]

Find an Amazing Mentor

Whether you are in high school, college, or graduate school, it is important at every level of your life to find a mentor. Mentors are the people who will guide you to and through the next stage in life that you choose to get to.
Here are some of the common notions about what a mentor [...]

Personal Branding Predictions for 2010

As we head into a new year- and a new decade- there is a sense of renewed energy and ambition in the air. As you start building your new goals for 2010, it’s important to think not only about where you are at in your academic life and career search, but also where the rest [...]

Email: Ten Things You Must Do

Dear Student Branding Reader,
More and more of your friends are probably jumping on the Twitter bandwagon and creating LinkedIn profiles. And pretty much everyone you know is on Facebook (including your professors, internship supervisors and parents). It’s important to understand how to leverage your brand through these platforms, since they are playing an increasingly prevalent [...]

Social Media: Are You Wasting Too Much Time?

It’s impossible to get away from social media these days. As I look at the prevalence of sites such as Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn and Twitter, I’m blown away by how quickly things have changed. During my freshman year in college in 2004, Facebook was just starting to gain popularity. At that point, many of my [...]

What Tiger Forgot: Reputation Management

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you probably heard about the Tiger Woods scandal. Up until this point, Tiger Woods’ reputation has been relatively impeccable. Why? In part, it’s because many of us assumed that because he was an upstanding athlete, he must be an upstanding husband and father, too. [...]

How to Build a Stronger Network

To some extent, we all know that networking is important. As a student, you are likely just getting used to the idea of creating a professional network. So why do you think networking matters?
Most young people believe that the biggest reason to network is to develop a list of contacts at organizations where they would [...]

The Senior Year Checklist

You’re a senior! Be prepared for mixed emotions, because the last year in college is bittersweet. Part of you is probably ready to move on and try new things, while the other part of you may be wondering how senior year got here so quickly. Luckily, you still have a whole year left. What are [...]

  • Dan Schawbel

    Dan Schawbel is the founder of the Student Branding Blog, the leading personal branding expert for Gen-Y, the best-selling author of Me 2.0, as well as the publisher of both the award winning Personal Branding Blog and Personal Branding Magazine.

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  • Melissa Kong

    Melissa Kong is the editor-in-chief of the Student Branding Blog. She is an Assistant Brand Manager at Time Inc. Home Entertainment where she manages brand extension projects for numerous publications including Sports Illustrated Swimsuit and People.

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