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One Resume Does Not Fit All

Fit. It’s funny how much effort we put into fit in our everyday life–if our clothes are too big, we bring them to a tailor so that they fit; if we’re thrown into a new environment, we may change our approach so we fit in with the crowd. Why then, when it comes to the [...]

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The Essential Interview Check List: 9 Steps To Ensure You’re Prepared

You have an interview tomorrow–what should you do to ensure you’re prepared?  Other than the obvious interview preparation (researching the company etc.), here are some organizational tips that will make “interview day” go smoothly: Select your attire. Decide what you are going to wear at least one day before the interview.  If you have not [...]

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How Do You Say Thank You?

In a recent conversation with a friend, we started talking about how the notion of sending a thank you card is almost extinct or only a small subset of people send thank yous nowadays (excusing wedding thank yous, though those are starting to feel a little impersonal too.) So why am I telling you this? [...]

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Is Your Personal Brand… Personal?

Personal branding should be unique. Personal branding should be remarkable. Personal branding should be… personal. Instead, it seems the goal of most building an online personal brand is working toward neutral, non-confrontational–boring, even. We scrub our Facebook pages, sanitize and corporatize our Linkedin summaries, and make our resumes read like clones of everyone else’s resume. [...]

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Ready, Set, Go: Maximizing Your Spring Semester

Today marks the beginning of Spring semester for my students @LoyolaChicago. Some are returning to campus with internship or job offers in-hand, while others are still on the hunt for their dream career. Regardless of where you may be in your career journey, here are a few tips to maximize the upcoming semester. If you [...]

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Building Career Confidence

I realize that some of my previous posts for this blog have been saturated with a “go get ‘em” message where I express my ideals that the world is your oyster and you can do whatever you want. That being said, I realize this is not always the case, especially for students. Although rare, I [...]

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Goals or Resolutions? Personal or Professional? Both?

Raise your hand if you thought 2011 flashed by quicker than a blink of the eye? (For the record: both of my hands and my legs are in the air. How do I do that and still manage to type? I’m just that talented.) I felt like it was just yesterday that I was wishing [...]

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The Public or Private Profile Debate

  I love social media!  I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that a fair amount of my daily news intake comes via Twitter. When the East Coast was hit by an earthquake over the summer, I felt the earth move in my office, but it was the tweet I received 10 seconds later that [...]

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Five Keys to Consistency and Commitment After the Job Offer

Your hard work, your engaging online presence, and all that networking has paid off. You’ve got the job–maybe even your dream job. Now you can relax… right? Right. For about a weekend. Then, it’s time to put your network–and your brand–back to work. Here are five simple steps you can take to make sure your [...]

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Four Essential Job and Internship Resolutions for 2012

2012 is here. New year. New goals. New resolutions. Finding that killer internship or landing an excellent first job was probably on the list for many of you. But how do you actually get there? Here are four suggestions you can implement today to help you stand out as a candidate for that first job [...]

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    Dan Schawbel, the founder of the Student Branding Blog, is a world renowned personal branding expert, the international bestselling author of Me 2.0, as well as the publisher of the Personal Branding Blog.


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