Tag: Business

Slash Your Career

I have thinking about titles a lot recently after reading Guy Kawasaki's LinkedIn Profile Extreme Makeover. I am not a student of marketing, I have never take any formal training but I feel that I do a lot of "selling" for my IT projects especially now in times of severy limiting IT budgets. After reading Guy's posting I decided to make over my LinkedIn profile and I started thinking about what sort of title to put in my profile. I decided that the one my employer gave me failed to convey the value of experiences, expertise and aspirations.

Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Tip of the Week: Slash Your Career «Creating a slash career allows you to personalize your work to your skills and interests, explore different facets of your personality with lowered risk to your wallet, and take advantage of today’s increasingly flexible and fluid workplace.

So here's my slash title: Information Security Professional/Web Developer/Blogger. Does it fit?

What Gen Y Wants from Work

Wow! This is one awesome post! It almost reads like a manifesto.

Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Guest Post: What Gen Y Wants from Work «In other words, companies must feed our urge to jump ship and start a business, by giving us the opportunity to come up with an idea and have free rein over development, implementation and follow through. Logic tells us that companies should not “train” young employees to be entrepreneurs for fear of losing them.