Located in Omaha, Nebraska, Creighton University is a private, four year Jesuit Catholic university, but welcomes people of all religious faiths, with over 40 represented at the school. Creighton has a 120 acre modern, urban campus, in a garden like setting, that is designed to deliver a cutting edge learning and living environment. There are around 7,000 students at the university, including about 4,000 undergraduates. CU also holds an annual luau for students.
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Posted by William F on November 5, 2009 at 12:24 PM | Leave a Comment (0)
Known as the first American university and a proud member of the Ivy League, Cornell University is located atop East Hill in Ithica, New York. The 745 acre campus includes many waterfalls and even has its own zip code, due to its size. Cornell enrolls over 13,000 undergraduates and nearly 6,000 graduate and professsional students; when you add medical graduates and professional students, the total number of students is over 20,000. Cornell students represent all 50 states and 120 countries.
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Posted by William F on November 4, 2009 at 11:55 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
Columbia University is located on the upper west side of Manhattan, New York, in Morning Side Heights, just north and west of Central Park on Broadway. The 36 acre campus is designed as a self-contained, urban village, filled with residence halls, classrooms, laboratories, art studios, and athletic facilities. There are about 5,500 undergraduate students from all 50 states and over 90 countries.
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Posted by William F on November 4, 2009 at 11:28 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
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Building your personal brand is one thing but if no one can find it your efforts have been fruitless. While many people go about the right steps to build a personal brand they overlook what they need to do so that search engines can easily find and crawl their content.
Let's start off with what Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is: the process of taking content that you produce and make it search engine friendly so that search engines like Google and Yahoo can crawl and index.
So what makes search engine friendly content? The answer is: content that you yourself would like to read or content that will benefit other people. Search engines are not interested in indexing content that is written to fit their needs because they too are businesses. They want to give their customers (web users) the best content that they can find.
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Posted by Candice Arnold on November 3, 2009 at 1:58 PM | Leave a Comment (1)
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As you continually work to improve your personal brand, you are going to consider many social media tools to utilize. Along this journey, I am sure that Twitter will be one of them. The reason that Twitter is such a good outlet for you is that Twitter is a means to express both your professional and personal sides. The professional and personal mixture, of course, being your own unique personal brand.
The problem begins when your personal brand sways more heavily one way over the other. This is most concerning when the personal emphasis is the heavier of the two.
As Mack Collier tweeted, "Getting on Twitter is NOT a strategy, Twitter is a tactic to execute a social media strategy". Such a wise statement.
Twitter is a tool for you to continually work to create and expand upon your personal brand. Any social networking tool is not a strategy, but instead is a tool (and this cannot be forgotten). Twitter is searchable by Bing and now by Google which further exposes you and your personal branding message.
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Posted by Candice Arnold on November 3, 2009 at 11:45 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
Lois Lane had the biggest impact on my career choice because as a teenager, I aspired to be a female version of Woodward or Bernstein and Lois Lane, though a fictional character, embodied those characteristics. Later, I discovered the joy of writing positive, human interest stories and found that I much prefer writing about the good things that people do than about the bad. It's much more rewarding.
-- Submitted by C. A. from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States through the CollegeRecruiter.com Career Blog Application on Facebook.com.
Posted by Facebook Career Blog on November 3, 2009 at 8:54 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
College students and recent graduates want to gain a competitive edge during their job searches. Besides having stand-out resumes and cover letters, they have to have stand-out personalities, too. The question is, will they fare better if they are perceived as likable or nice during their interviews?
Why is this question so important?
Because out of the 36 people who responded to my recent query, 23 of them felt that it's better to be likable than nice because nice people are often viewed as being either weak or insincere.
Performance coach and author of Power Speaking: The Art of the Exceptional Public Speaker, Achim Nowak, believes that likable people are positive while nice people are "overly concerned, consciously or not, with being liked." For him, being nice is a mark of insincerity.
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Posted by Candice Arnold on November 2, 2009 at 10:27 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
