Comments on: Weekend Reading: Getting from College to Career by Lindsey Pollak

By: Jonathan Coffman

Jonathan Coffman — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:16:56 +0000

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By: CompuWorld

CompuWorld — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:57:17 +0000

Hi Dan,

I never knew you had soo many websites/blogs under your belly. Remember me? Salman..the one whose comment you read in ProBlogger..

I haven’t read this book but the name itself seems to say it all. Considering I am left with 2 more months of my college (my engineering finishes May 2008) I guess I know the importance of building our brand while in college. I have been blogging for around 1.5 years and I as was a student during this period so I had the time to build my brand. I used to ask my friends to visit my blog (although they used to say I was going mad. No doubt one testimonial in my orkut profile says my future wife will be a robot) but I didn’t ever talk about my blog to my teacher. This semester I included my blog as my final year project and when two days back I told about this to my H.O.D (Head Of Department) she said “Salman..I cannot digest this. How can you do this when others aren’t able to do anything big?”

I have some money in my wallets to hire writers so that my tech blog keeps delivering articles once I join Accenture and for the other blog theSenorita.com (where I publish articles only on Sundays) I am writing articles in advance so that I won’t have to worry about writing articles for this year…things going great and this is all because I gave it a start while in college..

By: David Sandusky

David Sandusky — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:24:52 +0000

Another post people can use, Dan! I will share that many of my clients and contacts in general are Gen X which offers interesting insight to career strategy. Consistent behavior of the top producers is mentor relationships from college on and pushing out of the box – “I can do that!”

The common “I wish I had” comments I hear from the boomers is learning how to network/connect sooner to add value and to be more proactive. I have not read this book, but seems like a valuable resource based on Dan’s recommendation.

By: Alexandra Levit

Alexandra Levit — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:09:40 +0000

Hi Dan, thanks for your great review of my friend and podcast co-host Lindsey Pollak’s book. I’m a new reader of your blog, but what I especially like about it is that it’s one of the few to intersect my two worlds as well – marketing communications and career development. As you mentioned, I know you get a ton of books to review, but I’d be very curious as to what you think about my new effort, How’d You Score That Gig? (Random House, April), which is about dream jobs – many in communications – for twenty and thirty-somethings.

Best,
Alexandra Levit
Author, How’d You Score That Gig?
Blogger, Water Cooler Wisdom
http://www.scorethatgig.com