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Dominating Your Google Score [Infographic]

Here at #CareerGravity, we’ve shown you how to calculate your personal Google score. According to social recruiting software vendor Jobvite, nearly three quarters of employers either always or sometimes search online profiles of prospective job candidates. What will they find when they search your name? A large part of online personal branding is dominating the search results […]

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Resume the 13th Part 57

The résumé isn’t just for Microsoft Word anymore. With #CareerGravity, you can do all sorts of cool, bleeding-edge things with your résumé. Social media, especially the visually-oriented destinations (e.g., Pinterest), give you a wide berth to exercise creativity and innovation in how you interpret the idea of a résumé and present it to the world. This past […]

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Surprising Day Jobs of 12 Olympians

The SavvySugar blog posted a slideshow of the Surprising Day Jobs of 12 Olympians. We’ve summarized them here: Chas Betts Country: USA Sport: Wrestling Age: 25 Job status: Betts is a motions designer, which is a specialized field in graphics that deals with animations. Check out his work on his design website. Chi Yip Cheung […]

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Dear Start-ups: Your Employees, Your Employer Brand

An organization has two brands: an employer brand and a consumer brand. And the two converge today effortlessly, as a matter of course. That’s because of social media generally and the web, period. For established organizations, especially large enterprises, the new dynamics are a potential liability; gently persuading all those employees’ voices to communicate a […]

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Entrepreneurs Need Gravity, Too

If you’re a start-up and you don’t have a sophisticated and teeming presence online, you don’t exist. Yes, yes, you exist, but you’re invisible. You’re kind of like a tree falling in the forest, with nobody there: You might as well not exist. Perhaps you don’t want to seem to exist. That’s a legitimate strategy, and […]

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The 15 Best Certificates for Today’s Job Market

College is a risky decision these days – especially considering the current job market. Consider these facts regarding college education in 2012: Since 1991, college tuition has increased at twice the rate of inflation. That’s an increase of almost 50%. Compare that to the median income of a college graduate, which has only increased 9.4% since 1991. The average […]

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