Just a heads-up, incase you didn’t know: it’s FPRA Blog Week! (FPRA = Florida Public Relations Association) Josh Hallett and crew have done a great job to offer an outstanding lineup of posts discussing a variety of important issues in PR.

Personally, I’m very encouraged by this and agree with Robert French that other organizations should embrace this idea as well.

The discussion is going very well so far, with several comments on each post, so this is definitely another one to check out. Go join the conversation!

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The HigherEd BlogCon is now in session! This “fully web-based event focused on how new online communications technologies and social tools are changing Higher Education” kicked off at the start of April and is continuing all month long. The stellar team that developed the online conference did a great job of pulling together an impressive and informative program.

During this year’s month-long event, participants from more than 30 institutions will publish articles, podcasts, and screencasts sharing their findings and experiences using these new technologies and inviting your participation through comments and questions.

I certainly encourage you all to take a look — especially educators: share it with your colleagues!

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So you have spent a great deal of time perfecting your stellar cover letter and resume, sent it out to your companies, and you finally get the call you have been hoping for: “We would like to set you up for an interview.” Your confidence exudes and you are so excited, but wait…now is not the time to relax…now is the time for hard work. Interview preparation is a key step that many job candidates fail to perform. Being called for an interview is in no way a guarantee of a job. At this point in the hiring process, the recruiter or hiring manager has narrowed down the applicant pool to the most qualified and desirable applicants. Being considered in this interview pool is promising, but the competition is fiercer. Now is when you truly have to make yourself stand out from the other job candidates because, most likely, all of the interviewees are somewhat on the same level in terms of experience, education, ect. The recruiter/hiring manager is facing a difficult decision distinguishing who would be best fit for the job at hand. He or she wants nothing more than for you to “weed” yourself out in the job interview. Interview preparation is a key area in which you can avoid being one of the weed-out job candidates.

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