In college, your best friends are practically handed to you—everyone starts out living in close quarters in the dorms, which means that finding someone to hang out with is as simple as walking down the hall. When you graduate from college and move on to a new city, it can ...

[display_podcast] After our first year working for various PR agencies in Chicago, Kevin Saghy, Bryan Blaise, Joseph Tateoka and I sat down to reflect on the transition from college to agency life. Some of the common questions we covered include: Should you take time off between college and your career? Is ...

I just got my annual letter of renewal from the MSU Alumni Association. Has it really been a year already? If you're nearing graduation, as I was one year ago, you're probably both excited and a bit freaked out about leaving college and transitioning into the corporate world. There are certainly ...

After becoming inspired by a few of the books recommended by Tara Hunt on her blog HorsePigCow.com , I've decided it's finally time for me to offer up a few of my own. So whether you're just getting started in the marketing and "new media" space or already familiar with ...

I'm always a sucker for trend graphs—and here is one trend that is increasingly hard to ignore. Many of you have heard by now that GM is planning to shift 50% of its ad budget (that's 1.5 billion dollars) online over the next three years. And today, Advertising Age announced ...

If you're a public relations student looking for an awesome resource to connect with other students, professors and practitioners in the public relations industry, check out PROpenMic, created via Ning. Here's your opportunity to get out there and connect, ask questions and take the conversation beyond your own university. (As ...

[display_podcast] Entrepreneur Mitch Joel has been hailed the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” by Canada's Marketing Magazine and was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world. He is currently President of the award-winning digital marketing agency Twist Image . He regularly captivates audiences as a ...

Seth Godin raised some eyebrows when he took a stand against the use of traditional resumes in a recent blog post : "I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all... How about three extraordinary letters of recommendation from people the employer ...

[display_podcast] I had the opportunity to chat with Alexandra Levit , a twenty-something career expert and author. She has written multiple books on young people in careers, including They Don’t Teach Corporate in College: a Twenty-Something’s Guide to the Business World, Success for Hire and now her latest book How’d You ...

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 ...