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Anxiety
Ambiguity's Anxiety

Fuming and Fretting
The Less Traveled Road
a Pipeline to Greener Sewers
Surpressing Crazy Thoughts
Thinking too Much

Advanced Degrees

 
Applying
10 Ways to make your journalism job application better than everyone else’s - Poynter
Finding your next job: Three things to do before starting - Chronicle of Higher Education
Getting Discouraged
Overcoming Blackmarks - Wall Street Journal
Want to Break into TV News? Think Producer - TV News Check
Job hunting is a matter of Big Data, not how you perform at an interview - The Guardian

Apps for Job Hunting
Job Compass - Lists jobs by zip code. Free, iOS only. 
Job interview Q&A - Poses common questions managers ask during job interviews. Free, Android Only.
Job Search for iOS - Nice design. Sort through and stay on top of openings that interest you. 
Job Search for Android - Nice design. Sort through and stay on top of openings that interest you. 
Jobr - Matches job hunters with employers (like Tender). Free. iOS only.

Branding & Reputation
6 Ways College Grads Can Protect Their Online Reputations - Huff Post
10 free tools to manage your personal brand - PR Daily
12 Clever Social Media-Friendly Business Cards - Mashable
The 7 Types of social media specialists - PR Daily
Aspiring Intern Pitches Lego Version of Herself to Agencies - Ad Week
the Elevator Pitch
Fixing Toxic Google Results- Wall Street Journal
How Business Cards Survive - Business Week
How to Look and Act Like a Leader- Wall Street Journal
How to Write a Killer Bio - Yahoo Shine
the Importance of Likeability - Wall Street Journal
Job Hunters Beware - Wall Street Journal 
Manage Your Online Reputation—Before Someone Else Does - Wall Street Journal
Master Online Searches - Wall Street Journal
Networking Mistakes we often Make - Wall Street Journal 
the Perils of Self-Promotion - Fortune
Seven Tips to Prevent Social Media From Ruining Your Career - ABC
Using Social Media to Find Jobs - CBS video
Why the business card is thriving in the electronic age - The Economist
Yes, Every job seeker should have a personal website -The Week
Your Digital Life: Job seekers, be wise on social media - USA Today
Why Business Cards are Thriving in the Electronic Age - The Economist

Breaks
Taking a Break Between Jobs - Business Week

Career Advice

5 things job seekers spend way too much time worrying about - USA Today
8 Books that Will Lead to your Dream Job - USA Today
9 Tips on Landing your Dream Job - Fortune 
10 Things I wish I had known When I graduated College - USA Today 
10 Ways to Gain Experience without leaving Campus - USA Today
Advice on how to get a cool Internet Job - Bit Method
Find Work You Love by Identifying Your Unique Angle - Life Hacker 
Don't have a blog, you won't get a job? - Wall Street Journal
Focusing too Narrowly in College Could Backfire - Wall Street Journal 
Making a Smart Lateral Move - Fortune
Most Americans Unhappy with Their Job - Yahoo Finance
Personal Beliefs + Career - Cavalier Daily
Starting College? Here's how to graduate with a job - Washington Post 
Your Career Path is all on you--and that's a good thing - Fortune
Your Permanent Personnel File - Chronicle of Higher Education
Working Abroad - USA Today

Contracts
Non-compete Clauses
Without Cause Termination Clause - Chronicle of Higher Education

Cover Letters
Cover Letters Get You in the Door - Wall Street Journal
the Five worst opening lines to use in a cover letter - USA Today
Forget Cover Letters - Write A Pain Letter, Instead! - Forbes
How to Write a Cover Letter, According to Great Artists - The Atlantic
How to Write a Cover Letter That Employers will Actually Read - Lifehacker
A Simple How-To for writing that killer cover Letter - USA Today
Stand Out Cover Letters - Wall Street Journal
 

Film 
The Anonymous Production Assistant's Blog


Freelancing
What are we worth? - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Humanities Degrees
Thinkers have value in today's job market - Indy Star
5 Tips for Aspiring Digital Copywriters - Mashable


Internships
5 Reasons you are NOT my Intern - Forbes
DreamWorks Resume Suggestions - From a DreamWorks Intern Supervisor 
Fellowship or Internship? In Media, the definition has become fluid - NY Times
How 14 Formerand Current Interns Supported Themselves During Their Internships - The BillFold
How to succeed the first few weeks at your internship - USA Today 
Intern Deluxe: The Rise of New Media Fellowships - The Awl
Internship Tips

an Internship From Your Couch - Wall Street Journal 
How do I get a job when I have no relavant experience? -  Life Hacker
Legal requirements for unpaid internships - US Dept of Labor
What an Internship with Google is Like - NPR
What Companies Want in a Social Media Intern - Mashable


Interviews: Before and After
Dressing for the Interview - Wall Street Journal
Thank You Notes - Wall Street Journal
The Wonder Woman Pose - YouTube Video
What Should Job Seekers Should do before an Interview - Huff Post 
  
Interviews: What you do
4 tricks for getting rid of your nerves and appearing more confident in a job interview - Business Insider 
5 Great Answers to Awkward Interview Questions - Yahoo Answers 
5 Unorthodox Ways to Land a Job - AOL Jobs 
5 words you should never use to describe yourself in an interview - USA Today
6 Interview Questions that will make any employer want to hire you - PR Daily
6 Mistakes College Students make during informational interviews - Come Recommended
7 Things you never say in a PR agency job interview - PR Daily
9 Ways Job Seekers Have Impressed Prospective Employers - Forbes
10 Questions a Career Coach Says Will Help You Ace Job Interviews - Main Street
10 self-sabotaging interview mistakes to avoid  - The Week
Biggest Interview Mistakes - WXYZ-TV
the Google Cheat Sheet - Business Week

How to Answer Anecdotal Interview Questions - Life Hacker
How to Answer ‘Tell Me About Yourself’ - Undercover Recruiter
How to answer the 5 most essential interview questions - USA Today
How to speak body language during an interview - PR Daily
How you Speak during an Interview - AOL 
It Pays to Ask Smart Questions at a Job Interview - Wall Street Journal
Interview Killers - Wall Street Journal 
Job Applicant's Social Fit can Trump Qualifications - Bloomberg  
the One Thing you must do in every job interview - Linked In 
Rookie Mistakes on Your First Job Interview - Ivan Dimitrijevic
Surviving Phone Interviews - Fortune
Should you Admit Why You Were Fired? - Fortune
Talking Too Much - Wall Street Journal
Win over any job interviewer with these 4 questions - USA Today
    
Interviews: What they do
5 Questions You Should Never Ask in a Job Interview - Monster.com
9 Common Interview Questions That are Actually Illegal- Business Insider
10 interview Questions Designed to Trick You - Forbes
Common Job Interview Questions 
Here's Google's Secret to Hiring the Best People - Wired
How interviewers Know when to hire you in 90 seconds - Undercover Recruiter  
How to Keep a Bad Interviewer from Derailing Your Job Chances - Life Hacker
How to Respond to 8 Illegal Interview Questions - Business Insider
How to Spot the Boss from Hell - Wall Street Journal
In California, It's now illegal to ask for your Social Media passwords - Atlantic
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman on the biggest lie employers tell employees - Vox
The Trickiest Questions Apple Will ask in a job interview - Business Insider
When a Potential Employer asks for your Facebook Password - Mashable
Why Brainteasers don't belong in job interviews - New Yorker
Why Hiring Managers Use Personality Tests - Wall Street Journal

Legal Issues
Discrimination Entanglements related to using social networks in Hiring - CIO
In California, It's now illegal to ask for your Social Media passwords - Atlantic
When Can Employers prefer the attractive over the homely - the Economist

LinkedIn 
3 Brilliant LinkedIn Summaries That Will Inspire You to Update Yours Right Now - The Muse
4 Tips for Reaching out to Someone you admire on LinkedIn - The Muse
4 ways to write LinkedIn posts that turn into career opportunities - USA Today
5 templates that will make writing the perfect LinkedIn summary a breeze - USA Today
6 Simple Tricks to Improve your LinkedIn Profile - Payoff
8 ways to irritate your Linkedin Connections - PR Daily
24 LinkedIn rules you might be breaking - USA Today
Ask an Expert: All About the Best Ways to Use LinkedIn - Life Hacker
Best ways to use LinkedIn - Life Hacker  
Do's and Don't of LinkedIn Courtesy - Her Campus
How LinkedIn will fire up your career - Fortune
How LinkedIn can actually power your job search - USA Today
LinkedIn: Busting 8 Damaging Myths about what it will do - Fortune
LinkedIn Now Lets you Add a Visual Portfolio to your Profile - Wired
the Most Important Linked in Page You've Never Seen - Wired
Promoting Yourself on LinkedIn - Wall Street Journal
Using Social Media (and other tools) to find a PR job - PR Daily

Management
Mixing Doers, Thinkers and Feelers - NY Times
This Slide Shows Bosses Totally Don't Understand Millennials - Huffington Post
Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human? - New York Times

Negotiating
8 Reasons you should turn down that job offer - Salary.com 
How to Negotiate Your Salary When You Don't Have Any Work Experience - LifeHacker
Negotiating your salary- Wall Street Journal
What to do when someone asks you to work for free - USA Today  
Getting multiple job offers a great problem to have - San Diego Union Tribune


Networking
5 old school ways to network that can get you better results than LinkedIn - USA Today 
21 Practical Ways to Overcome your fear of Networking - USA Today  
Misadventures in Networking - Chronicle of Higher Ed

On the Job
5 mistakes to avoid at your first job - USA Today 
Big Data Predicts Who Makes the Best Workers - AOL Jobs
Soft Skills Can Help you get ahead - Wall Street Journal

Public Relations
4 Skills PR newbies should possess (if they want a job) - PR Daily
7 Things you never say in a PR agency job interview - PR Daily
10 Things every PR portfolio must have - PR Daily
10 Unconventional ways to find a PR job - PR Daily
Using Social Media (and other tools) to find a PR job - PR Daily

Resumes
3 Ways to Make sure resume bullet points will impress recruiters - USA Today
4 Things to Leave off your resume - Mashable
5 marketing secrets that will help your resume get noticed - USA Today
5 Resume Myths - Monster.com 
5 Signs Your Resume is Passe - Divine Caroline
6 Unexpected SkillsTo Boost a Journalism Resume - American Journalism Review
7 things you should take off your resume right now - USA Today 
10 Creative Social Media Resumes to learn from - Mashable
45 quick changes that help your resume get noticed - USA Today
Attractive women should not include a photo with a job application - the Economist
Avoid These Overused Phrases to Make Your Resume Stand Out - Life Hacker
Basic Resume Do's and Don'ts - Wet Feet
Best and Worst Fonts to Use on Your Résumé - Bloomberg Business
Best and Worst Terms for Resumes - Huffington Post
Career Objectives on your Resume - Quint Careers
Create a Strong Resume by Keeping it Brief - Life Hacker
DreamWorks Resume Suggestions - From a DreamWorks Intern Supervisor 
Goforth's Notes on Resumes
Goforth's Notes TV Resume Tapes 
Goforth's Resume Check List 


How to Make a Resume that Works - Wall Street Journal
How to revamp your resume in 30 minutes - USA Today 
How to tweak your resume to prove you're the perfect fit - USA Today 
Selling Yourself in 45 Seconds or LessWall Street Journal
the Reengineered Résumé - Business Week
Tiny Typos Can Add Up To a Big X - Washington Post
To get a job, write your story instead of a resume - Quartz 
Using SEO Strategies to Optimize your Resume - Yahoo
Viral Infographic Resume - Tech Crunch
What to put on your resume when you have no work experience -  USA Today
Why I tossed your Resume - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Will Temp and Retail Jobs Hurt my chances at a real career - Life Hacker
Will a Computer Decide Whether you get your next job? - NPR
Your Résumé: Imaginary Friends as Job References - Business Week

Resume Exaggeration 
Exaggerating on a Resume - Wall Street Journal
Inflating Experience Can Deflate CareersWall Street Journal

Resume Help
10 Words Never to use on a Resume - AOL

CeeVee Creates Clean Resumes - Gigaom
How To Write Your Human-Voiced Resume - Forbes

ResumeTracker - Life Tracker
Vizualize.me - Create your infographic resume for free. Video introduction here.
Meet the New Boss, Big Data - Wall Street Journal

Search
5 things even smart people forget when they're on the job hunt - USA Today
5 Tips for Aspiring Digital Copywriters - Mashable
The 8 Traits of every fearless job hunter - The Week Magazine
9 tips to land your dream job - Fortune
10 Worst Mistakes of First-time Job Hunters - Wall Street Journal
35 Job Search Mistakes - USA Today
College Grads best Job Bet: Word of Mouth - Business Week
Didn't get the Job? You'll never know Why - Wall Street Journal
How Do You Apply to a Company Way Out of Your League? - Life Hacker
How Helicopter Parents can ruin kids' job prospects - CNN
How to Find an "In" at your dream company-fast - The Muse
How to Land a job in tech with a liberal arts major - The Next Web
How to Read a Job Ad - Wall Street Journal
Introverts and the Job Search - Quietly Fabulous
'Overqualified' May Be a Smokescreen - Fortune
Job-Hunting Pros Help A Generalist Highlight Her Many Unique Skills -
Wall Street Journal
Job Hunting the Big Data Way - Forbes
Job Scams - CNN
Looking for a job? Recently employed grads share their tips - USA Today
Scoring Unlisted Jobs - Wall Street Journal
Six Ways to Score a Job Through Twitter - Mashable
Score a Job Through Facebook - Mashable
Should you Reveal a Disability in your Job Search? - Fortune
Top 10 Tools for Landing a Better Job - Life Hacker
Using Social Media (and other tools) to find a PR job - PR Daily
applies to other jobs as well
Why December might be the best time of year to get hired - Washington Post

Social Media (also see: LinkedIn)
3 Essentials to Landing Your Dream Job Using Social Media - Social Media Today
Six Ways to Score a Job Through Twitter - Mashable
The 7 Types of social media specialists - PR Daily
7 Tips to Prevent Social Media From Ruining Your Career - ABC 
10 Creative Social Media Resumes to learn from - Mashable
How Instagram can Land you a job - The Muse 
If you think your tweets and Facebook posts don't matter, think again - Christian Science Monitor
The Real Way to Build a Social Network - Fortune
Using Social Media (and other tools) to find a PR job - PR Daily
(applies to other jobs as well)

Starting Your Job
6 bad habits you must stop before your new job - USA Today
20 Things 20-Year-Olds Don't Get - Forbes
The First 90 Days - Wall Street Journal
How Helicopter Parents can ruin kids' job prospects - CNN
What College Grads don't Know about Research - Journalist's Resources

TV
Newswomen's Attire - Washington Post
Notes on TV Resume Tapes

Websites (samples of online personal branding)
Kulpreet
Lam Thuy Vo

Working for Free
What to do when someone asks you to work for free - USA Today