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Career Links: February 2012
The old saying goes, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," and it's possible for the journey to a new job or profession to begin by clicking on a single hyperlink. Career-oriented self-education, in the age of the Internet, is free, easy, and can be done in just minutes a day. Show your career a little love before Valentine's Day and read these 4 stories related to career and workplace issues.Forget Networking. Be a Connector | Entrepreneur
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Show your career some love, attend these Alumni Career Resources events!
Being good to yourself has a bad reputation that's almost entirely undeserved. Making career-boosting choices that help you can also lead to you helping others, either through the work you do or through the benefits (money, self-confidence) that accrue when you when you upgrade your professional life.There are several activities sponsored by the ASU Alumni Association this month that will boost your career. Take care of number one and make your reservations today!
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Resume 101: Optimizing Your Resume for Social Media
Over the past several posts we've looked at two very basic lessons in constructing a resume: how to format it and how to write it. Today, we examine an element of resume preparation that is decidedly more contemporary: how to ensure your resume gets noticed in social media.
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Resume 101: How to Write Your Resume
We continue our discussion of resume basics by addressing the heart of this vital career document: the content of your resume.There is much debate about what content to include or exclude on a resume, but there are some items about which there is a consensus:
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Resume 101: Choosing the Right Format for Your Resume
Today we begin a series of posts discussing some resume preparation basics. These are the fundamentals of building a career-marketing document  -- and just like the fundamentals of playing a musical instrument or a sport, you must master the fundamentals before you can succeed at more advanced levels of career management.Let's begin with the issue you must address before you construct or revise a resume for a specific job opening - what format the resume will be in.There are 3 basic resume formats: chronological, functional and targeted.
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New Year, New Networking Strategies?
Now that 2012 is fully underway, it's time to examine those fine promises you made to yourself to expand your professional network this year. Becoming a more skilled networker is a great goal. And trying new approaches to networking may just the ticket to becoming a better-connected business person.Here are some fresh ideas for networking strategies that can help you find a new job, uncover a business opportunity, or become the "go-to" person in your professional circle.There's an app for that
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Generation Y Career Burnout: Too Much, Too Soon?
There's been a flurry of content popping up on the web related to employees, particularly female employees, hailing from Generation Y (or the Millennial Generation, those born between 1981 and 1995) experiencing burnout early in their careers. As a someone who's part of Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980), and who's been in the workplace for nearly 20 years, I was intrigued. What are the newest professionals experiencing that's leading them to burn out, and how are they responding to it?
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Career Links Roundup: January 2012
Did you make New Year's resolutions? If the answer is yes, and any of them related to upgrading your career, you can take one step toward keeping your resolution by staying current with the latest news on career-related topics.This month's roundup features four links that can help you better navigate the working world and achieve your professional goals!
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Brave New Workplace: 3 Strategies for Career Planning in 2012
It's a brand new year. Optimism and motivation are at an all-time high in January, and that makes it a good time to ride the wave of good feelings and dig in to do the hard work of mapping out a career strategy for 2012, and begin acting on it.Here are 3 strategies that can help you craft a coherent plan to achieve your professional goals for this year.
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New year, new opportunities at these Alumni Career Resources events!
Everyone is an optimist in January. This is the month when the slothful exercise, junk-food lovers follow their diets, and working professionals ponder the next step in their career. What separates the hopeful from the accomplished later in the year are action steps that provide momentum to continue January's enthusiasm all the way into December.There are several activities sponsored by the ASU Alumni Association this month that will boost your career. Get out there and take action!
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