January 20, 2011 at 10:05 am
I am wondering what people think of this title and description:
Abstract: Learn practical ways in this session that you can use to build your career brand and stand out from the crowd. Steve Jones, editor of SQLServerCentral, shares some of the ways in which he has successfully grown his career over the years. Steve will present tips and tricks for using social networking sites, blogging, volunteering, leadership, and more to your advantage. He also has a few resume hints to help you find a great job that fits you.
January 20, 2011 at 10:45 am
Steve we have read enough of your work here on SSC to know that your abstract effectively describes your presentation. If there are highlights in your actual presentation not in your abstract I will re-comment here after listening to you at SQL SAT#60 in Cleveland on Feb 5, 2011
January 20, 2011 at 11:34 am
Thanks, will be interested to hear if it matches the talk.
January 20, 2011 at 11:50 am
It sounds interesting. I'd be interested in comparing your technique to what I do.
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January 20, 2011 at 4:46 pm
I think it is accurate - having heard the presentation.
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January 20, 2011 at 10:07 pm
I have to concur with Jason having heard your presentation at the CSSUG meeting a couple of years ago.
January 22, 2011 at 7:28 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/20/2011)
I am wondering what people think of this title and description:Abstract: Learn practical ways in this session that you can use to build your career brand and stand out from the crowd. Steve Jones, editor of SQLServerCentral, shares some of the ways in which he has successfully grown his career over the years. Steve will present tips and tricks for using social networking sites, blogging, volunteering, leadership, and more to your advantage. He also has a few resume hints to help you find a great job that fits you.
I think the abstract is just fine. I don't believe the title matches nor does justice to the abstract or the session, though. Now, after reading the abstract, I get the point as to why the title is what it is, but the purpose of the title is to make people want to take the time to read the abstract. I've skipped over reading the abstract for this session many times simply because I took the title to be yet another person telling me how to "write" a resume rather than how to increase my value and exposure to a future employer.
What do I suggest for a title? You're much better at writing than I am but, whatever you come up with, I'd avoid the word "resume" like the plague.
Hmmmm... there is one minor change I'd make to the abstract simply because it seems so obvious. We know that it will be a "session"...
Learn practical ways [font="Arial Black"]in this session that you can use [/font]to build your career brand and stand out from the crowd. Steve Jones, editor of SQLServerCentral, shares some of the ways in which he has successfully grown his career over the years. Steve will present tips and tricks for using social networking sites, blogging, volunteering, leadership, and more to your advantage. He also has a few resume hints to help you find a great job that fits you.
Heh... nah... hmmmph 🙂 BWAA-HAAA!!! A really eye-popping title might be something like "Exposing Yourself in Public". 😛 I guarantee people will stop and read the abstract for that one! :hehe:
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January 23, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Jeff Moden (1/22/2011)
I think the abstract is just fine. I don't believe the title matches nor does justice to the abstract or the session, though. Now, after reading the abstract, I get the point as to why the title is what it is, but the purpose of the title is to make people want to take the time to read the abstract.
I agree with Jeff. I've attended this presentation and there's a lot of great content. The title leaves me wondering if it's about writing a resume, if standards for resumes have changed, or something along those lines. Your presentation is much more than that; it's about getting your resume to the top of the stack by doing things beyond showing up to work and doing a good job. The abstract tells that story, the title...not so much.
January 24, 2011 at 7:47 am
Interesting comments. I've never had anyone mention the title, but those are good points. I'll see if I can come up with something else that might better describe this session.
January 24, 2011 at 7:37 pm
I like the title. As someone recently pointed out to me "Grant, we don't need your resume. It's out there." I think Steve's got it right. The stuff he's suggesting is the Modern Resume.
I also agree with Jeff's edit, not because we know it's a session, but because I though the sentence read a little funny. It reads much better Jeff's way.
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January 25, 2011 at 7:43 am
What about these titles:
Build a Better Brand and Find Your Dream Job
Branding Your Career
The Modern Resume: Learning to Market Yourself
January 25, 2011 at 8:38 am
I like the "The Modern Resume: Learning to Market Yourself"
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January 25, 2011 at 8:48 am
Me too. The last one works best. I think Resume still needs to be in the title.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
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SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
January 25, 2011 at 8:53 am
I should mention that "The Modern Resume" taken on its own is not very descriptive and that's what I [perhaps mistakenly] was referring to earlier. Sorry about the confusion there. "The Modern Resume - Building Your Brand" is a good title, especially since people interested in raising their profile are probably familiar with the concept of branding.
January 25, 2011 at 8:56 am
Thanks, Doug. Do you like "Building Your Brand" as the second part, or something else like "Learning to Market Yourself"?
Or "Learning to Build Your Brand"
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