Mark S. Babbitt is CEO and Founder of YouTern, a social career resource for college students, recent graduates, and young professionals that enables them to find their first or next internship or job. Mashable calls YouTern a "Top 5 Online Community for Starting Your Career" and Forbes and About.com have named YouTern to their lists of best career sites multiple times. Mark is also President of WorqIQ, a community and change management consultancy that looks at the key factors that contribute to an organization’s collective Workplace Intelligence (WQ). His newest passion project, ForwardHeroes, launches in 2018 to help our military veterans make a successful transition into the civilian workforce. Babbitt is a co-author of the best-seller A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive. His thought leadership can also be found in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Harvard Business Review, Inc., Monster, and many other top publications. An in-demand speaker, Mark was named one of Inc. Magazines Top 100 Leadership Speakers.
Website: http://www.youtern.com
What does it mean to be deliberately different? And how does this mindset impact today’s job search?
“I’m following all the great advice. I’m working my butt off. I have a squeaky clean personal brand. Yet no job offers. Why? Why can’t I even get an interview?”
Sound familiar? Ever heard yourself saying something similar?
There are some old-school aspects of a job search, no matter how much technology impacts the process, that will always be highly valued by employers. Doing your research, showing up early enough to make a great first impression, and an effective follow-up will always matter.
To help you figure out who belongs in the “don’t listen” category, here are five pieces of old school advice still dispensed by “career experts” to job hunters.
Volunteering makes your best character traits come alive – mostly because you feel good about yourself while helping others.
