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Hey guys and gals, I wanted to let you all know that WKU FUSION is on Twitter!
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Are you LinkedIn?

Linked in is one of the growing social media communities for working professionals. The emphasis of L.I is to expand your network and allow colleagues past and present to connect and “recommend” others. For someone trying to find a job, it could be invaluable.
My father lost his job last November. He worked as VP of [...]

I just had a defining moment.

All this talk about googleing yourself got me all worked up– so I tried it.
GREAT NEWS! Two things I have worked on showed up in my Google cache.
Have you tried googleing yourself?

5 Steps to Job Search Magic

AN EXCELLENT article from a recruitment company. Searching for jobs can be overwhelming. Should we sues job search engines like monster.com? Look in newspapers? And do we hold out for a perfect job or just apply to whomever will take out resumes? Entry level jobs can be tricky to find, and mot students get [...]

Do bad grades mean doom?

Another great Vault article.
My college experience is not unique– I struggled my first two years of school. Finding that balance between having fun and taking school seriously is a challenge for many of students. For some, fun isn’t even in the equation. The transition from high school to college is difficult. This is a [...]

Making a good impression with your resume

Here is an excellent article from Vault at the New York Times on how to make a good first impression with your resume.
By Vault.com
Vault conducted a survey of 211 career center professionals, from both undergraduate schools and business schools in 35 states. The career professionals were asked questions ranging from when candidates should send a [...]

Resume Advice

Collegegrad.com (about whom I have written before) has a few videos on the importance of resumes and how to structure them. I find that this is one area where I have zero expertise in so I will post these videos and you and I can both learn more about how to build our resumes.
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Make yourself google-worthy

I hope all you students and teachers are having a marvelous and safe spring break.
I had an interesting discussion about building up one’s personal brand the other day, We talked about the big social media stires that working professionals are using to build their brands– some even become mini-celebrities or gurus int heir fields through [...]

I love CollegeGrad.com

CollegeGrad.com is a great resource for finding top entry-level jobs and internships, as well as great help videos for putting together resumes, interviewing, and job searching. They also have wizards. Not real wizards, though. Just great tools.
This is the salary wizard. Type in your desired industry and all the places you wold consider living and [...]

Breaking Through: Look at all that you can do with an Ad/PR degree

Western Kentucky’s Career Services desk has created a helpful PDF file that lists all the fields someone can work in with a Advertising degree, but public relations students should consider this a list of opportunities as well.
Lists like these are why I switched to be a PR major. There is a lot of crossover work [...]