Week 3-- Cyber Your Resume

With today's technology, it's assumed that most employers would be taking advantage of that. It never really dawned on me that the old way of printing out your resume and cover letter, bringing it to the employer for the interview (if you're lucky), and hand it to him/her. At least that is what I did for my first internship interview. With a Benedictine University folder in hand, I had my resume, cover letter and reference letters in folder and at the end of the interview, I gave the interviewer the folder to keep for reference. Now note that was about 4 months ago. Now, I realized that there are so many sites like LinkedIn to upload all that stuff at the swift of a click.

LinkedIn.com

 

 

This is something that I really enjoy as a young college student. Basically it is an easy way that my future employers can see what I am up to, my resume and other skills that I can add to the website. Not only can I see who viewed my LinkedIn (which can come in handy), but I can also connect with other people. This is a great way to network yourself and also connect to your future employers. Learning on how to start up your resume that can make the difference from others. Volunteer work, past job experiences, set up all your specific skills and more. This  is a whole new ball game and can change how employers look for their new employees.

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Week 3-- Blog Me

We all know that my journey of blogging has been quite interesting. From starting the blog, to choosing my décor, down to the post-- I was walking into new territory! As I open and start to read Chapter 2 of CASA Marketing Intro to Google Analytics by Todd Kelsey, to my surprise look where I could of gone in my need of help...





Blogger.com

I guess the old saying is true, "reading is your friend". Lesson learned, blogger help center will be my new best friend I guess.



I think that it is pretty cool that I am able to share my journey of blogging and now, attempting Google analytics. This will basically help me keep track on who is visiting this website and how many viewers I have had. "Tracking IDs are basically codes that Google gives you to place on your site or blog, so that the site can "talk" to Google" (Kelsey 27). That the ID you have is unique to only your blog or site that you have created. It is going to look a little something like this.





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I appreciate how something that looks so complex and hard to do, is explained step by step. I feel like I need a "Book for Dummies" because this is just something new that I have never done before. However, I enjoy how the book takes the time to show each step (pictures included) on how to take a simple blog and add that extra step that includes Google Analytics. Excited to see how much I know by the end of the semester!

Week 2-- What Color is your Parachute?

It has come to my attention that finding a job these days is hard to come by. I have been lucky enough to be employed during my high school years and having an internship for my senior year of college. Since the hit of 2008, it has been more difficult to find a job, let alone hired. It seems that job-hunting has stayed the same, but that employers have changed. Employers are holding out on jobs by trying to find a perfect employee or just hire within the company. How are people suppose to get a chance with this happening? One figure from the book that stood out to me is below,

Richard N. Bolles, page 12

I never realized it, but this upside down pyramid is true in today's society. I've had first hand experience with a company hiring new employees'. As an intern, my portion of the job is to recruit and come up with ideas on how to get the word out there. As of today, my company has job posting on school websites and also, a lot of our recruiting is coming from word-of-mouth from our current employers. It seems that the age ole saying, "it's about who you know" is really true today. Another hot topic to be added to a resume would be speaking two or more languages. I am figuring that a part that helped me get my internship would be knowing how to speak Spanish. My fellow coworkers have told me that it helps a lot knowing another language for todays working world. The revolution of job-hunting, I believe, is changing everyday and people need to take a different approach to it.

http://www.job-hunt.org/

Week 2 -- Learning to Blog: Intro to Google Analytics

As I proceeded to my class on a bright and sunny Tuesday to Web Analytics, I was anxious for the unknown. You see, I have never taken a class like this before. I was eager to learn and excited for the new information that was to be thrown at me! I walk into class and there, on the screen are class notes for what we should start doing. I proceed to go down the list, Gmail account--check, order textbooks--check, create a blog--'uh what!?' I just walked into unknown territory, sweat pours down my face...create a blog! Now, this is something I was not familiar with nor did not have the desire to do. After convincing myself that this was a piece-of-cake and that I was able to do a blog, this is what happens.

Little did I know, that this was just a small step for human kind and that this was fixable and all was well in the world again. Now that the blog situation was in the past, it was time for me to learn more about this Web Analytics. I asked myself questions like, 'How will I ever use this in my career?' or 'This looks like a lot of numbers, and I do not like numbers'. I started to read CASA Marketing Intro to Google Analytics, I learned that there is much more to it and web analytics is an important skill to have. And my journey for blogging begins!