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5 Realistic Reasons to Find Summer Internships Now

October 25, 2010 By Chanelle Schneider 7 Comments

In my youth, I was an intern. But as I often do, I went about the whole thing backwards. I originally received a degree in graphic design and immediately started with a firm in my home town. After just a few months, I realized that sitting behind the computer ever day rearranging page numbers for a parts catalog was boring. I left that job and went back to school to find myself. So, although, technically, my public relations internship did not lead to my first job (Nordstrom & Hot Dog on a Stick do not count) when I finally got around to interning, it launched what has been a fascinating and rewarding career. [Read more...]

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I Didn’t Join Twitter for This (Or What Could Kill Twitter’s Popularity)

September 5, 2010 By Chanelle Schneider 29 Comments

I’m writing this with much apprehension. I’m sitting here dumbfounded and disappointed. Only one other time in my life have I found myself at such a loss for words that I can’t even determine how to complete this statement in a manner that concisely summarizes my thoughts. Where are we as a human race that we cannot look to our left and look to our right and help us all make it out? I used to believe that we were all good at heart. I thought that somewhere along the way unfortunate experiences turned us bad. I hope this is still true. If you really knew me, you’d know that I hold a lot in because expressing my feelings and sharing my thoughts with the goal of helping people always resulted in me being hurt because the person didn’t want to be helped, hence the reason for my apprehension in writing this piece. Many events have occurred on Twitter in the past month that led to me writing this. There is no one event that sparked it, but they all need to come to resolution. [Read more...]

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Followed By: Are Your Followers Following The Person You’re About To Follow?

August 13, 2010 By Chanelle Schneider 12 Comments

New to me is a feature that will add on to the two once new features of Twitter: Who To Follow and Name Results, which will make it that much easier to determine whether or not to follow someone. Many people are not a fan of the Who To Follow function because they’ve either already unfollowed the people being suggested to them, or they’re not getting enough everyday users of Twitter. Since so many people follow celebrities, a person who does not follow celebrities on purpose will not find Who To Follow useful. This new Followed By feature may be useful, though, because it will enable people to hone their follow strategy based on the accounts they find on their own.

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From College to the Real World- A GenY’er Learns Sacrifice

July 26, 2010 By Chanelle Schneider 12 Comments

Blake McCammon, is an intern at Xceptional HR. Connect with Blake on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Blake is a recent grad of Northeastern State University with a degree in Business Administration. During school he created and managed his university’s social media strategy.

Every week, I hear someone comment on the topic “Is a college education worth it?” or “Is it all about the money?” These two topics are referenced in the media, in real life, and usually during any action you perform during the day. We live in a world that has been consumed by the need for cash. How much will the groceries cost? Will we have enough money to pay the car insurance this month? Since the time we were old enough to get an allowance to the time we start living on social security (or lack thereof) we will always be thinking of money. [Read more...]

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How to Optimize Your Time When Writing Blog Posts by Avoiding Self-defeating Behaviors

July 24, 2010 By Chanelle Schneider 14 Comments

No book I’ve seen yet can teach you how to keep going on a daily basis the way tweets from other bloggers can. A constant source of inspiration, watching people tweet about working in their various industries when it’s 2 in the morning makes you feel less alone in the world when you don’t know why you’re doing what you’re doing. [Read more...]

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I Got My First Job Through Networking

July 21, 2010 By Chanelle Schneider 8 Comments

Yasmin is a Singaporean Gen Y, 7 months into her first and current full-time job. She studied in Germany, majoring for 3 years in psychology for Bachelor?s and 1 year in business for Masters. Her boss only knew about these degrees after hiring her. When Yasmin is not handling operations, sales and marketing at work, she uses social media to advance and promote her company. Yasmin values the insights she gets from #genychat every week, enjoys meaningful conversations with friends, family and strangers, and loves a good laugh whenever possible.

The Job Search Searching for a job is like looking for someone to settle down with. You could go at it with a rational mind, listing and prioritizing criteria. Or you could be caught unaware. The latter was how I came upon my current and first full-time job – accidental and unexpected. Like most graduates, I started my job search 6 months before graduating from business school. It was a somber, almost soul-less routine: log on to jobsite portals, click on posts that were appealing, mass-submit my resume, attach custom-fitted cover letters, all bearing a carpe diem complex. The mindset I had then was to aim for a job in a multi-national corporation (MNC) or brandgiant. Typical, right? [Read more...]