Summary Sunday Big Picture Stuff

Summary Sunday Big Picture Stuff Sunday is the day I reflect and share some of the favorite posts curated throughout the week! This weeks posts are about the shifts in careers and work, overriding networking principles and the future of the resume.   These three themes overlap or intersect and I think help convey the fact we no longer can keep playing by the same old career rules! Read em an weep (or better yet, incorporate new ways of thinking about how you manage your career!) Dont Ignore Career Realism from Business Insider “Realism is a philosophical state of mind that professes that  truth  consists in the mind’s  correspondence  to reality” ~ Wikipedia I mentioned this post already this week, but think it is so important to remind you of the power and control you potentially have in managing your career AND why it is important to seize it! The 7 Pillars of Connecting with Absolutely Anyone from Forbes Keith Ferrazzis Never Eat Alone led the pack of books on the topic of building and nurturing your network! If you want to stay up-to-date or just learn more about Keiths networking philosophies, tips and advice, head on over to his site, Keith Ferrazzi.com. This Forbes article starts off by saying: I don’t care what your goals, industry or interests are, there’s no getting around it: Personal relationships run the world. With this in mindlearn the seven simple ways you can build instant rapport with most anyone you come across! The Cloud Will Kill the Resume, and Thats a Good Thing from TechCrunch Youve heard the term cloud usedcloud computing, cloud services, storing files the cloudor any other combination. But what exactly does is the cloud?   According to Wikipedia: The term cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet Yes, it can be more complicated than this too, but in the simplest, easiest to understand definition for the sake of this post. Thats what were talking about. Chris Rickborn says in this article: It baffles me how the life-cycle of so many products and business processes can be extremely short and are so easily disrupted by innovation, yet an individual’s resume is still a one or two page document.  It’s still typed out in the same format it was 30 years ago and then printed, emailed or uploaded. Scratch your head and go read his article to see his predictions and hope for the future of fixing the hiring process (because we all know it is broken!) Enjoy what is left of your weekend! Thanks for reading! In case you are not on Twitter (most probably are not), you can see what I am reading on Twitter (and often share) by subscribing to this free weekly summary, Job Search Guide. Paper.li helps me share the tweets via their tool and I hope you find it pretty cool.