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By: Pete Kistler

Pete Kistler — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:24:09 +0000

Fantastic post! And fantastic blog. I found your blog by searching for @brandyourself mentions in TweetDeck, saw you’d RT’d one of Ryan’s posts recent posts about the value in blogging besides readership, checked out your Twitter profile, discovered you have awesomely niched yourself within social media targeting writers and publishers, AND you keep a job hunt blog for grads… AND you love pastries!

Well, you’ve won me over.

- Pete Kistler
CEO, Brand-Yourself.com

By: Kimberly Gehl

Kimberly Gehl — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:01:23 +0000

RT @marianschembari: Someone needs to say it! 5 Things College Teaches You About Work (and 5 things it doesn't) http://bit.ly/7ywPB2

By: alisaan

alisaan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:30:29 +0000

I just wanted to add how much I enjoyed your stance on personal branding. It’s something that’s crucially important to the digital age’s success since it sometimes feels like everything we do is searchable online…which we can use to our advantage! Social media and networking, when done correctly, can be invaluable to the job hunt for new grads or those with minimal experience.

By: Melissa Breau

Melissa Breau — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:26:04 +0000

you’re link under “here” doesn’t work.

I have a real issue with undergraduate colleges. I also attended a small private college and, while I learned a lot and made great friends, it was grad school that really showed me what college could be.

Looking specifically at the topics that interested me (in my case, publishing) with other students equally as interested and engaged as I was, was an incredible experience. One of the reasons I got into publishing is because I love to learn – in the program I could finally love what I was learning, and it was all relevant to what I was doing and want to be doing in the real world.

I have to say that I lucked out on #1 on your list of what colleges didn’t teach – we had Lindsey Pollak (www.lindseypollak.com) come talk to us about that specifically.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:39:54 +0000

Hahaha that’s so true about GPA. If you’re not applying to grad school, GPAs are kind of useless.

By: Carin Siegfried

Carin Siegfried — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:28:39 +0000

I most especially agree with your second #3. I was talking to a senior in the fall who was obviously very freaked out about the job hunting process, and I was very amused when she asked if my first job after college was my job as an editor in New York. I laughed and said no, that was my 6th job after college. I first worked by old summer job at a bookstore, and was a bartender at night. Then I worked at TicketmMaster, ended up being asst box office manager at the amphitheater, then went to another bookstore, before getting the first “real” job, as buyer at a book wholesaler. And really, without those bookstore jobs, I’d have had a hard time getting that buying job. And I learned a lot of great job skills at all these jobs. Not to mention the majority of the students who had consulting/banking jobs lined up before we even hit second semester, at 25 all of those people had decided they hated their jobs and were going to law school or to get their teaching certification. She calemd down so much after I told her about this.

I do wish there wasn’t so much emphasis on getting evreything lined up early, but I think it’s mostly the other students who put that pressure on you much more than the college. It may seem like that’s the college’s emphasis too, but that’s just the only people they can get to do hiring that far in advance as most companies want you to start in 2 weeks, so they won’t hire you in October when you don’t graduate until May/June. I do wish that people in the Career office realized their students were freaking out about this and did more to alleviate thta stress, but when you’ve got a bunch of overachievers, telling them to stop worrying about it until the spring isn’t really going to do a lick of good.

By: Marian Schembari

Marian Schembari — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:12:08 +0000

Someone needs to say it! 5 Things College Teaches You About Work (and 5 things it doesn't) http://bit.ly/7ywPB2