Despite the fact that many college kids say that they live in a bubble, they still deal with an information overload on a daily basis. Today you might read 7 Facebook messages, 23 e-mails, 142 IMs, 14 text messages, 97 pages of assigned reading, 3 course announcements, 12 web pages, 8 blog posts, and 6 articles in your campus daily. Shoot, you might do that before noon. It’s easy to deal with the information when it’s delivered to you. E-mail makes your computer ding. Facebook sends you e-mails. You have a ringtone for text messages. IMs make an icon on your screen bounce. Your campus daily is delivered in front of your favorite coffee shop every morning. It’s when you have to seek out information that it becomes far more difficult to manage. Continue reading about Why Every College Job Searcher Needs RSS…
I originally came up with the idea for this article after reading Darren Rowse’s post on ProBlogger called Reasons to Have a Vanity Folder in Your News Aggregator. A “Vanity Folder” or Online Brand Management Folder is a way for you to monitor online mentions of your name or business. If Darren is truly practicing what he preaches (and I’d bet he is), then he should come across this post. Darren’s post was directed towards bloggers, but I want to discuss how this concept and the technology behind it can be extremely useful to both recruiters and job searchers. Continue reading about Managing Your Employment (or Personal) Brand Online…