Want to know how to build your personal brand? Keen to understand why it matters to you? Irrespective of whichever walk of life you are in – as a student, a working professional or an entrepreneur – personal branding is crucial for your success. Knowing who you are, what you want to be and how […]
New Media and career
5 Points To Consider While Upskilling Yourself
How do you ‘upskill’ yourself? You don’t expect such a question to pop up in a Whatsapp group but a post from a communicator piqued my interest. Responses to that post included friendly suggestions to ‘do what it takes’, ‘read and interacting with peers’, ‘do courses online’, ‘write’ and ‘teach’. When I Googled ‘upskill’ the […]
Career potential and Web 2.0
At a New Media and Career workshop for students conducted today, I posed the following questions: Is your resume New Media ready? Do you know what makes a curriculum vitae tick in the social media space? Are you sending the right messages for recruiters trawling the web? Is your career Web 2.0 proof? Recent shifts […]