I don’t know about you, but I find it all too easy to go to my place of comfort, learning new stuff. I’ve always been comfortable in those academic spaces, but there’s a danger there of getting stuck and not taking action. So look through these resources, but don’t stop there! Instead of learning…
Keep track of the info interviews you do. At first, you’ll feel like you can keep it all in your head, but especially if you’re looking for a bigger change to your career path, the information you take in is going to get very muddy very quickly. I use a simple tracker in Excel, but…
Ultimately you will need social media if you’re looking for a new job. According to a 2018 Career Builder survey, 70% of employers use social media in the hiring process, and when they can’t find anything online, they may well not call you. And that survey was before the pandemic! What business do they…
I’ve been there too. I get all kinds of bent out of shape when people tell me that unfriending people for “just politics” is silly and petty. I’m Japanese American. I haven’t forgotten that “just politics” sent us to the US concentration camps, and if my family hadn’t been living in Hawaii at the time,…
Once you’ve chosen your initial platform, what’s your goal of being on social media? Do you want to get hired? (That mostly happens via LinkedIn, just so you know.) Are you looking to connect with others in your field? Do you want to establish a reputation as a go-to person for something? Think about your…
The spaces can be really confusing. Should I be on Twitter? How complete does my LinkedIn profile need to be? What the heck is the point of Snapchat? And the truth is, there’s no real solid answer to any of this. However, it is important to be somewhere on social media so that prospective…