Love the idea of making LinkedIn resolutions: http://repcapitalmedia.com/10-resolutions-for-awesome-networking-on-linkedin-in-2013/?goback=.gde_42218_member_201898055 What are yours?
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Some love for networking
Networking: what is it? First of all, networking is not a dirty word! It should never be about being opportunistic and taking advantage of people, it is about creating and maintaining a group of people who can serve to guide and advise you in your career. You build a network to connect with people who …
The non-reversing mirror
When I was a young graduate student at NYU, taking my first course in field methods, my professor Renee Blake took our class on a little fild trip to learn about how others see us. She took us to a shop in New York City that had non-reversing mirrors called True Mirror. For many, looking …
LinkedIn: New media, social media, or computer-mediated communication (CMC)?
When we are researching LinkedIn, are we researching new media, social media, computer-mediated communication? Researchers are actively deciding which term to use to because the term that you use says something about how you understand these interactions and what makes them worthy of study. So to begin, while there are important ways that these conversations …
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Make some time for your job search over break
As the holidays are fast approaching, and you prepare to put away the books for a while to go home to be with family and friends, make some time for the job search by asking those who know and love you well to reflect with you about where you have been. Take them out for …
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But it’s only an X not an interview…..
X being a meeting for coffee, a quick chat with an important person that a friend has arranged, and recently from a student who was able after 2 years to finally set up a conversation over Christmas Break with a major executive at an organization of interest.! What is this interaction? Now, networking can be …
Articulating your professional vision: Show me your city block!!
Over the years I have read hundreds of applications for graduate school. I am to the place now where I can tell you within about thirty seconds whether or not I am excited about an applicant, based on the story they tell in their applications materials. What makes me light up? Well, I am a …
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The culture of an organization from its website
As I see it, as a jobseeker, there a number of ways that you can gain access to a type of “insider knowledge” about the culture of an organization. Many of these “ways of knowing” lie in your reactions the public self-image they present with their website. Discourse Analysis of an organization’s website Start by …
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Prepping for a job interview
It’s that time of year again: job interview season!! Thought I would take this opportunity to share some of my thoughts about how best to prepare. I welcome your ideas in response. What has worked for you? What would you never do again? From student to professional A major theme of this blog is enacting …
School is your job
As a graduate student, there are many reasons for treating school like work. First and foremost, I would argue that it is very good practice. Office politics are among the things that people speak to as being among the most difficult aspects of the transition from student to professional, but if you choose to treat …
Career Linguist 