ONE | Become a Professional Social Butterfly
Wander around the web clicking from link to link until you find a local upcoming event that you could attend. If the event is held by a company in your industry, even better! Plan on going to at least one event a month so that you can continuously meet people. Make sure to add the people you meet day-to-day on Linkedin so that you don't lose a new contact that might help you get to your dream career in the future.
Good Googling Keywords:
+ (Your City) Fashion Events
+ Fashion Incubator (Your City) -> Events
+ Fashion Association (Your City) -> Events
+ Fashion magazines (your city) -> Events
TWO | Update your Resume Once & For All
You know you have been putting off adding your last internship on your resume. Now is the perfect time to update!
Yes, I mean it, right this minute!
You never know, tomorrow you may be offered an opportunity to send your resume to someone important, and you will certainly stand out if you are the first to respond to the call.
While your working on your resume, here are a few things you may also want to check on:
+ Is all of your spacing consistent between the different sections?
+ Is the overall layout appealing to the eye?
+ Are your titles, subtitles, and descriptions all the same fonts/sizes that they should be?
+ Do all of your sentences end with periods? Did you forget one?
+ If you aren't using periods at all, do any of your sentences have periods on the ends by mistake?
+ Did you win an award this semester? Has your GPA gone up?
For more resume tips/examples, visit these websites:
+ Resume Action Verbs
+ Interesting Resume Layout Example
+ Article: 6 Words That Kill A Resume
+ Create An Online Resume
THREE | Change Your Homepage
Do you open Firefox every morning to the bland blueness of Facebook? It's time to change your homepage. Find a site relevant to your industry so that every morning when you get online you are immediately aware of what is going on. Knowing what is going on in your industry will be helpful any day when you happen to speak with ANYONE --especially someone in your industry. They will be impressed, or at least appreciative you give a damn and are interested in the things they feel are important.
Some Fashion Industry News Sites:
+ Women's Wear Daily
+ Fashion Wire Daily
+ Fashion Week Daily
+ Fashion.net's List of Additional News Sites
Again, nicely done. Lean, but substantive. Crisp, too. Stuff jumps off the page. Hope your peers are following your blog. Carry on.
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