So the end of your life as a college student is rapidly approaching, and people are starting to ask the dreaded question…what are your plans after graduation? I recently went to a dinner with a group of soon-to-be college grads, and I was surprised by how many of them have never ...

[display_podcast]Christopher S. Penn has been paving the way for companies in new media since he started the award winning Financial Aid Podcast for the Student Loan Network and co-founded Podcamp, the new media community unconference, with Chris Brogan. He blogs at christopherspenn.com, twitters regularly (great stuff, I might add – ...

[display_podcast]Chris Brogan blogs, writes, twitters and speaks on social media and its impact on business and individuals.Chris co-founded Podcamp with Christopher S. Penn and worked with Jeff Pulver on Video of the Net, a conference about the impact of the Internet on video. He also worked with Jeff on ...

Maybe grad school wasn't for you, at least not just yet. The thought of buying more text books, forking over tens of thousands of dollars and putting yourself further into debt just didn't seem appealing. So it's off to career-land for you. That doesn't mean you have to stop learning. In ...

 [display_podcast]I sat down with a few of my friends who work for various public relations agencies throughout the city of Chicago to discuss the transition from college to career.Thanks to Joeseph Tateoka, Erin Pierce and Kevin Saghy for offering up some excellent and candid comments and advice about the rewards and ...

When people find out that I cheered in college, they usually ask, “How did you learn to do all those crazy stunts and flips in the air? Did you fall a lot?” The answer is pretty simple. I learned to do all those crazy flips by falling a lot. Every time I ...

[display_podcast]Paul Bartow explains what it takes to work as a copywriter for a major advertising agency in New York City and what it took to get there. From an unpaid internship to sending his book out to agencies in New York, Paul tells what it took to get started. Are ...

[display_podcast]Lisa Hinkley, Field Career Consultant for the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University shares job interviewing tips. What are employers looking for? How does the culture of the company fit in? What should you wear to your interview? How can you prepare? How should you follow ...

Now that I'm revving up to record some fresh new interviews, I wanted to get all of my old interviews in one place. In this short interview during the Advertising Women of New York Career Conference, Christian Boesen from Vibrant Media offers some quick advice on starting a career, as ...

I remember the simpler times in the life of facebook. It was clean, simple and relevant. But ever since facebook has opened it's doors to third-party applications, I am constantly frustrated by the overload of irrelevant application invites. They've turned our friends into spammers as they send out mass invites to ...