Today’s 5 Best Job Search Tips From Degrees2Dreams
- With recruiters taking to Twitter for potential employees, brevity is the new black. Here’s Your Guide To Applying For a Job In 150 Characters or Less.
- What happens on the internet certainly doesn’t stay on the internet so here are 4 Tips To Protect Your Online Privacy and Digital Footprint, courtesy of one of our very own bloggers!
Four Tips to Protect Your Online Privacy and Digital Footprint
Queue the Pink Panther theme song… “Da Na da Na da na da na da na…” Inspector Jacques Clouseau’s next case: Tracking your every online move.
Unfortunately for us, we don’t have the bumbling Inspector Clouseau on our case. Instead, our every move is being tracked by a nearly flawless, always relentless, and extremely capable new inspector in town: online tracking. The increasing tracking capabilities of today’s Internet combined with the driving demands of advertisers to learn every possible detail of every internet user have pushed Internet privacy limits to the edge.
SocialFix: Informational Interviews- Pros and… Pros.
Google “job interviews are…” and auto-complete will supplement you with these highly constructive descriptors: “stupid”, “a waste of time”, “stressful” and “bullshit”. These are popular, loudly vocalized and rather incorrect opinions of frustrated, job hunting Googlers. Type in “informational interviews are…”, however, and you will get the words “important” and “useful”. Opinions of the cool, collected and wise.
SocialFix: No Internship? No Worries!
With classes drawing to a close, most students are coming up on The Calm Before The Storm. The storm, of course, being finals. This misleading lull in the busy life of a student is when our minds wander to those glorious summer days ahead, when all we’ll have on our plates is how long we’re going to be sleeping in and when to start working on that tan. Six Flags is slowly luring you in during commercial breaks and the new Iron Man movie? Must. Watch. Now.
But wait.
How to Blog Your Way to a Job: 3 Reasons Why Your Blog Is Failing
There is a prevailing notion among college students, graduates, would-be young professionals, and other similarly unemployed folks that to get hired, you need a blog.