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Volunteering: Your hidden lifeline

Have you seen those recent PSAs on television from iParticipate with various famous people, like Morgan Freeman, encouraging us to volunteer? They state that by helping others we help ourselves, our community, and our nation. (CLICK HERE to view one) It’s amazing but true, that volunteering can have such a strong impact on others and [...]

Making Your Own Opportunities

Last week, Seth Godin professed that “safe is risky.”  Many people follow directions, aim for approval from professors/bosses, and color inside the lines. This aversion to risk is actually risky — in that you risk not taking advantage of the world of opportunities around you.
Godin used the example of a student only interviewing with companies [...]

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Learn to Brand

If you want to excel at personal branding, you have to make a commitment to lifelong learning. You have to be able to do something that people value, but what they value will continually change, so you have to be able to continually learn to do new things or to do old things better.

Bret L. [...]

The Entry Level Diary – Getting Hired

Some of you may know this but I graduated college in December. I have been in the midst of the job search since. Well after all the interviews and the emails and the calls I got a job! This week was my first week. I wanted to do kind of a diary of the interview [...]

College Admissions 2.0: Video Essay on YouTube

A couple of weeks ago the Boston Globe reported that Tufts University, where I am employed as a career counselor, invited prospective students to include a 1-minute video essay with their application for admission to the class of 2014.  In “A Fresh Pitch on ‘U’ Tube” Globe Staffer Tracy Jan notes that of the 15,436 students who applied to [...]

Think Like a PR Person

When it comes to finding a job, it’s not the most qualified person who gets the offer. It’s the person that does the best job marketing their skills.
I’m part of a local organization that happens to have a lot of public relations professionals among its members. From them, I’ve been able to learn more about [...]

How Millennial are You? Using Generational Knowledge to Generate Success

Last week I talked about how I think it’s key to understand the generalized perception of your generation to be prepared to push back against the barriers your generational membership may set up against you.
How Millenial Are You?
Since that time the Pew Research Center has published a 14 item quiz that will tell you how [...]

The Fifth Discipline

There is no book that I have recommended more than Peter Senge’s “The Fifth Discipline: The Art And Practice Of The Learning Organization.” It’s a bit abstract, however, abstract thinking is an important skill to develop and I would encourage you to struggle through it.
The fifth discipline is systems thinking. Systems thinking is the ability [...]

The Importance of Variety: 36 Ways to Expand Your interests

Much of personal branding centers around upholding a consistent image. While consistency is essential to strong brands, we must remember that variety is also essential to maintaining a balanced existence.
Below are 36 ideas to enhance and add variety to your daily activities. These are simply reminders that we must remain open to new concepts, people, [...]

  • 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 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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