Links

PricewaterhouseCoopers has created a website and pdf designed to help students define their individuality and create a personal brand.  The pdf (linked here) is pretty good, but requires a real commitment to complete the whole thing.  Definitely worth doing some of the exercises...

Federal legislation proposed to keep employers from demanding to look at your private online accounts.

Google employees' survivors get 50% of the deceased paycheck annually for 10 years, and apparently the benefit starts on their first day of work.

More on continuing story of employers who demand access to recruits/employees FB pages.  Remember: sharing or soliciting an FB password is a violation of FB's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

A concise list of 14 topics that may or may not be asked during an interview.  The presentation is a little funky - it's a slide show and you have to click on the little green numbers or Next.  I think salary.com is trying to up its pageviews.

80% of jobs are not posted - You have to network! Read the linked article and networking hints.

Some companies are asking job applicants to submit their web presence instead of resumes.

Good suggestions on how to use twitter if you're an academic.

This website is a set of resources that LinkedIn provides to college counselors so they can make presentations on how to build a strong LI profile and how to use LI to network and find jobs.  Cut out the middleman and just go directly to the site!

[ From Alina Tugend's NYT commentary]

“A four-year liberal arts education doesn’t prepare kids for work and it never has,” said Alec R. Levenson a senior research scientist for the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California.

Mara Swan, the executive vice president of global strategy and talent at Manpower Group, agreed.