Students: brand yourself with a blog
By Tim Finin on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 6:05 pm.ACM’s TechCareers site offers “career-related resources, news and job postings for IT and engineering professions”. They recommend that IT professionals and those seeking to become one, should try Branding Yourself With A Blog.
“… Certainly personal branding isn’t a new concept, but the future of personal branding could be in at your fingertips—with a blog. One of the first steps in creating a brand for yourself is to make your blog visible. Post meaningful entries, comment on your industry’s top blogs, or simply gain a regular readership. “Visibility creates opportunities,” says Schawbel, a social media specialist at EMC Corporation. He believes that when you brand yourself, the competition becomes irrelevant. “The goal of personal branding is to be recruited based on your brand, not applying for jobs,” Schawbel says. …”
This is especially good advice for students.
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May 7th, 2008 at 12:05 am
The ability to brand yourself with a blog is very important. I teach blogging classes and one of the first things I tell my students is that a blog is a peephole into your mind. What a way to let others see what it is that makes you tick!