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Shout Out to the Brazen Careerist Team

November 20, 2008
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Brazen Careerist, an online community known as the career center for Generation Y, recently revamped its site and make it more socially interactive. It started as a network of 50 beta bloggers and has grown to over 350 20-something, Gen-Y bloggers (I joined in May 2008). First off, congrats to the BC team for their [...]

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Why Online Networking Can Be a Blessing…and a Curse

November 16, 2008

Networking used to be attending special interest meetings, exchanging business cards, and making phone calls. Today, it’s still that. However, the growth of social networking sites has enhanced the experience in many new ways. Social Networking Sites like Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIN, and other community oriented groups makes it easy to connect with old acquaintances and [...]

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Should My Company Join the Social Media Revolution

October 4, 2008
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Social Media is the latest Internet phenomenon. Viral videos, blogs, networks, tweets, are just among the hundreds and thousands of ideas, concepts, and mediums being popularized by the millions followers. However, it seems that unless a company employs 20-somethings, or have a employee base that is technologically adept, their attempts at entering the social media [...]

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Does Experience Matter?

September 4, 2008

With all the election frenzie particularly about Republican Vice President candidate Sarah Palin in the blogosphere, it brings me back to the question, does years of experience matter? This post isn’t about whether Palin is qualified, or even whether McCain or Obama should be president. Rather, it’s a general question of work experience. For many [...]

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Did You Know – Ode to “The World is Flat”

August 22, 2008

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Using Workflow Analysis to Improve Business Processes

July 7, 2008
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What is workflow? In the simplest sense, it is the daily routine we follow to perform from the simplest to most complex tasks. It can involve a single task by a single person or multiple complex tasks completed by various individuals or teams across geographical locations. For the complex transactions, workflow is built into enterprise [...]

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Building Networks Can Help You Enhance Your Marketability

June 17, 2008

As a young professional, building a personal portfolio of knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) is important to sell yourself for a promotion or for a new position elsewhere. Young and inexperienced Gen Y’s have to quickly build those KSA’s or risk being stuck in a rut. How else can we leverage our expertise in social [...]

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Re-engineer Your Career by Ferriss and Alboher

June 7, 2008

I’m heading out to SF for the weekend to take a break from blogging, work, and busy everyday life. In the mean time, I found this old video thanks to Lifehacker. I’ve read his book about the 4 hour work week and haven’t actually been sold on it yet.

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