The traditional resume might be on its way out in this age of LinkedIn profiles, but for the moment it remains a critical prop for any job hunt. Having read thousands of software engineering resumes over the decades, I can offer some advice about what to leave out of yours. Unless, of course, you en…
By Rainmaker.FM
There’s a huge shift happening in the world of on-demand online education.
It’s commercial enterprises and savvy small businesses that are filling the demand for courses and lessons, rather than the typical institutions of learning.
Brian Clark saw an interesting article in Fast Company recently about jobs of the future. One job description caught his eye — there will be a large need for “freelance professors” as teaching moves into the on-demand realm.
From the article:
“The continued growth of online courses and the introduction of alternative accreditations will spawn a growth in freelance or independent professors. …read more
By Rainmaker.FM
Today’s guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a poet turned tech junkie and entrepreneur.
After receiving a graduate degree in literature in 2000, he headed for Europe, where he sang rhymes to crowds for five years before moving to Arabia to teach Shakespeare to American troops.
His interest in tech was sparked while working for a VC firm in Utah. His due diligence work there taught him one thing: he wanted to be the startup, not the investor.
He got that chance in 2011 when he launched Post Planner. From there, he and his co-founder grew Post Planner from …read more
By Rainmaker.FM
Content syndication is sort of like guest posting on steroids. You get all the benefits of guest posting without the work because you use one article to show up on different websites.
But which websites you publish on matters. Which is why host Demian Farnworth asked Belle Beth Cooper to come on today’s special interview edition of Rough Draft.
Belle’s articles have been syndicated on Business Insider, Fast Company, and Lifehacker. On average, her articles were generating tens of thousands of views, several thousand social shares, and driving a ridiculous amount of traffic back to her website. …read more
By Rainmaker.FM
Today, being a “starving artist” is so passé …
You already know the Internet has the potential to put your creations in front of a much wider audience than you’d have at an art show at your local coffee shop.
But, this week, Editor-in-Chief host Stefanie Flaxman and photographer Bryan Formhals talk about the lesser-known benefits of living the life of an artist online that are essential to having a fulfilling creative career.
In this 36-minute episode of Editor-in-Chief, host Stefanie Flaxman and Bryan Formhals discuss: