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Tips for developing your personal brand

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CareerBuilder’s Matt Tarpey offers these tips:

  1. Identify your passion
  2. Prepare an elevator speech (See Larry Litwin’s The Public Relations Practitioner’s Playbook and The ABCs of Strategic Communication when you are ready to craft YOUR elevator speech. Books available via www.larrylitwin.com)
  3. Network, network, network
  4. Get your name out there

More advice on personal branding is available in both of Litwin’s books. If purchased from larrylitwin.com, shipping is free.

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10 worst-paying college majors

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According to Kiplinger.com, these are the 10 worst-paying college majors during 2014-2015 with starting salary and mid-career salary:

  1. Exercise science = $32,000/$51,000
  2. Horticulturalist = $35,200/$50,900
  3. Animal science = $33,600/$55,200
  4. Music = $35,700/$51,400
  5. Biblical studies = $35,400/$50,800
  6. Child and family studies = $30,300/$37,200
  7. Culinary arts = $34,800/$51,000
  8. Photography = $36,200/$55,500
  9. Social work = $33,000/$46,000
  10. Art history = $38,900/$59,000

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