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Diversity Career Resources: African American

This week I’m introducing you to a couple websites that focus on African Americans and careers. The first one, The Black Collegian, provides information on career resources for black college students. Job search strategies, graduate school opportunities, career and industry reports are abundantly explored. This site is the cyberspace partner of The Black Collegian magazine, [...]

Using the Internet to Find the Perfect Job

In my last piece I discussed online job applications but I’d like to take a step back for a bit. I am always amazed when I ask people where they found or came across a particular job posting.    Hopefully, by now you have some sense of the type of career you’d like to pursue and [...]

Diversity Career Resources: Part 1

How do you identify yourself? Personal Branding is all about showcasing yourself and marketing your unique characteristics, interests, and skills. The way you identify yourself (woman/man, African American, LGBTQ, etc.) is protected information and employers cannot refuse to hire based upon these personal identities. There has also been research that states a person’s acceptance of [...]

The Worst Things That Have Ever Happened to You

You’ve heard the phrase, “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” right? Well, what doesn’t kill you also makes for good interview material. Some of the trickiest interview questions are those that ask you to recall a negative experience or talk about your weaknesses. Questions like: Tell me about a time when you failed. What [...]

Don’t be Steven Slater: Quit Your Job Professionally

If you’ve been watching the news lately, then you know who Steven Slater is. He’s the Jet Blue flight attendant who quit his job in a very unorthodox manner and is now facing felony charges. CLICK HERE for a video with CNN reporters interviewing one of the passengers on the plane who witnessed the occurrence. [...]

What Everybody Ought to Know About Online Applications

It’s crazy to think that when I started working for Hyatt, back in 2000, candidates visited the hotel property’s HR office and completed paper applications. Wow how things have changed in such a relatively short amount of time! Now, almost all companies, including Hyatt, only accept applications online. To some, filling out online applications and [...]

BrazenCareerist Wants to Know: What Does It Mean to Be in the Driver’s Seat of Your Career?

This Wednesday, BrazenCareerist is hosting a nation-wide meetup called ”Meetup Everywhere: Crowdsource Your Career”. Across the country, people will gather to discuss what it means to take control of their career and life. These meetups will be filmed and Brazen will compile the conversations into one awesome video montage of what is sure to be an amazing collection of ideas. Pretty cool, [...]

Do You Have A Personal Branding Success Story?

I want to hear from you. If you have a personal branding success story, or know someone that has a good success story, please share it with me. If I like it, we can discuss how we can share your story with the other readers of The Student Branding Blog. Bret L. Simmons: Share Your [...]

Authenticity vs. Persona

This post isn’t intended to dispense career or personal branding advice.  Rather, I’m hoping it will stir conversation, or at least thought. This morning as I drove to work, NPR was airing a piece (text version is here) on what they present as something of a new trend of female pop stars creating and, in [...]

Want To Forget Important Things? Don’t Take Notes.

By now, hopefully you have learned to take good notes inside the classroom.  However, taking notes outside of class can be just as important.  I have found that the tips and tools I learned about from individuals outside the classroom have been the most influential to my personal and professional success. Why should I take [...]

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