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Top Ten Steps for Building Your Personal Brand to Start Your Career

11/6/2014

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1) Asses what “skills” you gained at your internships/job (not tasks completed).
  •  This is your value to future employers.  Adapt these skills to their needs.

2) List the projects you completed while at your internship/job in order to develop case studies of your work.
  • Skills learned applied to tasks given = value to future employer 

3) Own your name: www.YourName.com
  • Register your name’s domain at: Register.com, GoDaddy.com, etc.

4) Create an online website to house your accomplishments, i.e. AngeloScialfa.com.
  • Weebly.com, Wix.com, etc. are easy to use and have great templates. 

5) Create a personal logo and/or "look" for yourself with specific color, design, font, etc. for your website, business cards and letterhead.
  •  Hire a designer to help create the look. 
  • Or possibly hire another student so he can build his portfolio.

6) Create a strong LinkedIn profile, 100%. 
  • Use a Business/Professional profile picture only.
  • Be sure to include your contact information. 
  • Do not accept invitations to connect from friends unless they are in the same field -- this is not Facebook.

7) Ensure that Twitter, Facebook and all other personal social media accounts are “clean.”
  • Create a second Twitter for business.  If you use your personal account be sure old tweets are “clean” as well. 
  • Close Facebook until you get a job, or at least clean it and stop posting.

8) Do NOT text a prospective employer.

9) Check email at least four (4) times per day. 
  • Businesses use email, and if you are not responsive, employers will believe that behavior is indicative of your work ethic.

10) Want to get through to the decision maker?  Send a letter via snail mail!

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