YouTern’s blog is another year older — and over the course of the past year, we’ve improved and expanded The Savvy Intern to include more posts by more authors covering a wider range of subjects designed to help you develop and execute your career goals.
Whether you’re a regular reader, an occasional passerby or just discovered our blog, we sincerely hope you read us as we intend — as a virtual mentor, support group, coach… perhaps even as a knowledgeable reference librarian (sans glasses and “Be Quiet” shushes). At YouTern, we hope to energize and motivate while we encourage you not to wait for opportunities to happen to you (like most of your career competition), but instead for you to make something happen now.
Our Top Five Blog Posts of 2011 range from the practical, to social media resource, to hopefully inspirational. In what has become a tradition in this end of the year blog post, we added an “honorable mention” — this year that post is about a man that has inspired us for many years: Steve Jobs.
Now, enjoy our Top 5 posts from 2011!
7 Words I Never Want to See on Your Resume
You’ll find posts about resume subjects like length and format, that contradict each other. But you’re not likely to find contradictions to this piece of “tough love”. Right now, before you do anything else, delete these 7 words from your resume and never add them again.
Top 100 Twitter Accounts Job Seekers Must Follow: 2012
Follow these 100 Twitter accounts, read what they have to say, let them inspire you. These career experts will make your 2012 far more productive and successful — which is why they made the list!
The 12 Tell-tale Signs You May Be an “Old” Job Seeker
“You’re only as old as you feel”. If you’re making these mistakes, however, you’re certainly showing that you’re “old-school” — even though you may not be, or feel, old.
3 Mistakes You’re Making on Your Resume and How to Correct them Now
Your resume “speaks” for you before you get to speak for yourself in the interview. Make sure it represents you as well as you would — starting with this excellent blog by Jessica Hernandez of Great Resumes Fast.
Oops! What NOT to Do While Networking on Linkedin
@StacyZapar brings us this post showing that LinkedIn is a powerful networking tool that works for you… or against you. Avoid these 10 common mistakes.
And our Honorable Mention for 2011…
7 Rules for Success Steve Jobs Would Give to Inspire Interns
Given his propensity to inspire people from all walks of life, and adapted from a post called “Steve Jobs and the 7 Rules for Success”, this is how we imagined Jobs would inspire interns.
Thank you for your support in 2011 — we look forward to providing more excellent blog posts in 2012!
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