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How to Get an Internship this Summer
I spoke recently at UCSD on a recruiter panel for engineers and last week I attended a career fair at SDSU. A few weeks ago I was at BYU. So I've spoken with students recently and many of them want internships this coming summer. Following are some ideas that may help: Have a crisp, clean resume that shows what you're studying, when you plan to graduate, your GPA, previous internships you've had, and that lists extracurricular activities that are potentially relevant to an employer. Give the... |
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Recruiting is Sales. Please Get Over It!
I'll be in your area tomorrow. I could see you at 10 or 11. Which would you prefer? If I could show you a way to increase your salary by 50%, would you be interested? I was given your name by someone who highly recommended that we speak. I've been working a confidential search for a direct competitor of yours. We've all either used or been on the receiving end of these ancient and hackneyed lines. Back in the bad old days, when aluminum siding was new, pretty much every sales person used lines... |
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twitter practical guide to following and being followed
unless you've been living under a rock you know what twitter is and probably have a twitter account. since I first blogged about twitter in May, 2008 (see I'm a Twit), I have experimented, tweeted, and followed and removed some people I was following. what have I learned? twitter is not a popularity contest one of the basic ideas that many subscribe to is, "I'll follow you and you'd better follow me too or I'll drop you." pundits tell you to follow lots of people so that they'll follow you back.... |
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Thoughts from 2009
Women rule on twitter. Maren Hogan has 17,039 tweets. Shally Steckerl has only 1,227 tweets. Shally is much more visible in other forms of social media. There's something about twitter that suits Maren. She is open to sharing just about everything in her life and we just lap it up. Of course there is always someone who bucks the trend and Animal is that someone with 14,278 tweets. Also, The Global Language Monitor ranked twitter as the top word of 2009. How astounding is that? Google wave is... |