General Advice for Students

What Hiring Managers Care About

This gem is lifted from an email sent to me by a hiring manager at The Zimmerman Agency after some students failed miserably to impress at Career Day. Before you put on your suit, slap on your name tag and head for Career Day, take time to make sure YOU are not on the FAIL list. A Note to My Students from a  Hiring Manager

My former business partner wrote this for me one afternoon after yet another phone interview with a person who over-represented themselves on their resume and could not deliver at the interview: Interview Advice from my Former Business Partner

What do hiring managers really care about? Whether or not you can get the message to Garcia.

10 essential competencies for IT Professionals

What is the SO WHAT for your proposed project? Technology for the sake of technology does not make busines sense and is not going to fly with management. You better have a darn good business reason for whatever it is you are proposing or be prepared to be shot down.  Aligning Technology Solutions with Business Needs

Life After College is available for pre-order and purports to contain helpful advice on what to do  with your life after you graduate. There are helpful spreadsheets and tidbits in the blog that may help you determine what you really care about, your goals and your plan for reaching them.  Shared with me by my former student and friend, Willie Jackson, whose site is also full of great advice and helpful articles.