Career

To those of you working on your resumes . . .

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Stop underselling yourself.

I'm serious.  I see a lot of resumes, and I'd honestly say 95% of them undersell the person in question.  Come to think of it, I rarely see a resume that's "just right."

So look, right now you can and do more than you think:

That one-off task on your last job still taught you a lot.

That hobby you have (hint, hint), probably taught you a lot of skills.

Those courses in college you don't think you're using, you may actually be using (take it from a Psych major).

So folks, let me plead – stop underselling yourself.  There's more to you than you realize.

This is one of the things that I see too much of in progeekery – we, the fans, the geeks, the otaku, who do so many things, never appreciate it.  Maybe if we stopped for a moment we'd see we could say a bit more about what we do, that we are a bit better than we think.

– Steven Savage

Personal Branding For Progeeks #5 – Some Progeekey Edges

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And we come to the end of another series (Been on a roll with those lately, haven't I) – Personal Branding for Progeeks.

Now I've spent time talking how to do it, ways to do it, and of course, why.  But now that I've put you through the ringer, let's talk about some of the advantages you have as a progeek.

Yes, you, the professional geek, have advantages over non-geeks when it comes to personal branding.

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Personal Branding For Progeeks #4 – Putting It To Use

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So you've figured out your personal brand as a professional geek. Now, how do you actually use it and communicate it?

My philosophy of this is pretty simple – you have a core way to define yourself and refer to yourself.  This core manifests in everything you do professionally/progeeky and all of your professional and personal materials.

As for those specific materials . . .

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