Friday, October 10, 2008

Final words and random wisdom from the CCNMA job fair

  • Always believe that you have an advantage when you seems to have one.
  • Dont follow the path, go around and get to the guy who will hire you. Especially if you are not confident about some big time companies, you have nothing to lose, your resume will feel better if it were to be tossed away by the bureau chief instead of the HR staff.
  • Dont linkedin people, coz ppl delete emails when they see invitations, always email
From everyone: YOU MUST HAVE A BLOG OR WEBSITE. LEARN HOW TO EDIT VIDEOS. LEARN AS MANY SOFTWARES AS YOU CAN.

MYTHBUSTERS:

Do employer look at your drunk pictures on facebook?


For online media, maybe, if they are bored and creepy. For most normal people, employer will only check your facebook to verify facts, such as, if your name is Jackie Chan, or Winghei Kwok,
they might look at your facebook to see if you are a guy or a girl. They might verify your school info on facebook. They might refresh their memory of you by finding out how you look like on your profile pics. But anyway, privacy set everything on facebook. Let only your friend see your pictures or notes. Facebook has a block function and you can block people one by one using the privacy setting. If they are persistant enough to work thru that, then they could be some creepy people.

USEFUL SITES:

JournalismNext: job banks for journalist of colors

Knight Digital Media Center: USC media center, contain job
opportunities and fellowship info, online tutorial for online
journalism and other cool stuff.

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