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
Friday, May 28, 2010
Engage & Interact Here
Since I began building my website, NextInFashion.com, I have discovered several websites that allow me to easily engage and interact with potential site visitors and contributors. Here are two of the sites that have proven to be most effective in creating awareness for NIF.
1. Independent Fashion Bloggers
When I first came across this website I thought, "Great, there are even more competitors than I could have imagined, and they're all in one place!" As I started to click from page-to-page on the site, I realized that there is a large fashion blogging community that is willing to offer advice and share what is and is not working for them. It was also apparent that the bloggers were very interested in networking with other bloggers and excited to "meet" new people.
Almost immediately I decided NIF had to have a strong presence on this site and created a profile. Some of the tools I found useful in attracting potential site visitors and contributors were:
+The real-time "wire" feed: write a note that is posted for everyone on IFB to see; i.e. new blog post announcements, calls for submission announcements, general updates
+ Groups: you can start a group and it is added to the "Latest Groups" bulletin for everyone on IFB to see, so if you need advice on certain advertising methods or are looking for fellow bloggers to talk with from your city, this would be the place to figure things out.
+Polls: use polls to get answers to your big blogging/fashion questions. Anytime you want you can start a new poll and it will be posted in the poll feed for everyone on IFB to see and answer (if it is an interesting enough poll).
2. The Fashion Spot
The Fashion Spot is an excellent general fashion website for the fashion conscious looking to interact with others with similar interests. A large portion of TFS is the forums. The topics have thousands of replies, and view counts in the hundred thousands. If you have a need to engage people with a passion for fashion, this is the place to be, and the place to dedicated some hours in the day to. For NIF, I have posted calls for submissions as well as answered a few of the questions from future fashion students; this portrays NIF as an informer in the area of academic meets fashion and the people answering the questions have visited the site after seeing the answers I gave.
The trick is to post a few topics in the forum (with intriguing titles) and you will reach many, many people who may be just who you are hoping to reach. The catch, you have to apply to be able to utilize The Fashion Spot forums; it is a simple process, but may take a few weeks before you will be accepted.
1. Independent Fashion Bloggers
When I first came across this website I thought, "Great, there are even more competitors than I could have imagined, and they're all in one place!" As I started to click from page-to-page on the site, I realized that there is a large fashion blogging community that is willing to offer advice and share what is and is not working for them. It was also apparent that the bloggers were very interested in networking with other bloggers and excited to "meet" new people.
Almost immediately I decided NIF had to have a strong presence on this site and created a profile. Some of the tools I found useful in attracting potential site visitors and contributors were:
+The real-time "wire" feed: write a note that is posted for everyone on IFB to see; i.e. new blog post announcements, calls for submission announcements, general updates
+ Groups: you can start a group and it is added to the "Latest Groups" bulletin for everyone on IFB to see, so if you need advice on certain advertising methods or are looking for fellow bloggers to talk with from your city, this would be the place to figure things out.
+Polls: use polls to get answers to your big blogging/fashion questions. Anytime you want you can start a new poll and it will be posted in the poll feed for everyone on IFB to see and answer (if it is an interesting enough poll).
2. The Fashion Spot
The Fashion Spot is an excellent general fashion website for the fashion conscious looking to interact with others with similar interests. A large portion of TFS is the forums. The topics have thousands of replies, and view counts in the hundred thousands. If you have a need to engage people with a passion for fashion, this is the place to be, and the place to dedicated some hours in the day to. For NIF, I have posted calls for submissions as well as answered a few of the questions from future fashion students; this portrays NIF as an informer in the area of academic meets fashion and the people answering the questions have visited the site after seeing the answers I gave.
The trick is to post a few topics in the forum (with intriguing titles) and you will reach many, many people who may be just who you are hoping to reach. The catch, you have to apply to be able to utilize The Fashion Spot forums; it is a simple process, but may take a few weeks before you will be accepted.
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