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Alumni Career Services Offers Virtual Networking From the Comfort of Home

Penn State News
Penn State News covers the university's successful virtual networking and career fair events for students and alumni, powered by Brazen. Article>>

Brazen Careerist Powers Online Career Fair for Workers with Disabilities

SF Gate
Think Beyond the Label is partnering with Brazen Careerist to host an online career fair for workers with disabilities nationwide on October 16. Article>>

Give Candidates What They Want

Talent Management Magazine
Brazen Careerist makes the list of top 5 HR tech companies to watch in 2013. Article>>

Job Fair 2.0

Bisnow
For tech startups, what’s as popular as revenue and a ping-pong table? Try young grads with engineering degrees. And soon they will meet. Article>>

Millennials Are Like You and Me, Only Different

ERE
There’s nothing that different about Millennials that age doesn’t explain. So concludes an interesting study by the Kenexa High Performance Institute on the work attitudes of Millennials. Article>>

Virtual Fairs Offer Real Jobs

Wall Street Journal
As companies find themselves swarmed with applicants, struggling to match workers with the right skills to job openings, many are turning to virtual career fairs. Article>>

Gen Y Out of Work: What is Corporate America Doing About it?

Reuters
Highly educated, sometimes entitled and incredibly humbled by the current labor market, Generation Y is hungry for work. Article>>

Brazen Careerist Turns Facebook Profiles Into Resumes

All Facebook
Startup Brazen Careerist has launched a Facebook application that generates an infographic resume from a user’s social media accounts. Article>>

Hiring Gen Y

Bisnow Entrepreneur
Brazen Careerist marketing and communications director Ashley Hoffman and CEO Ed Barrientos know the secrets to Generation Y. Article>>

In Job Market, Are Gen Y's Wants Out Of Reach?

NPR
Over 40 million Americans are in their 20s, and they're having a particularly tough time securing work. Interview>>

Network Roulette: Speed Interviewing For Gen-Y Job Seekers

WBAL Radio
Getting a job is tough for anybody these days, but particularly for the group they call Gen-Y. Article>>

Gen Y’ers Try ‘Speed Dating’ - For Jobs

CNN
In a hip Washington cafe, Kathleen Majorsky is clutching her laptop and latte hoping to meet Mr. Right. But she's not here for a romantic connection; Majorsky's looking for a job. Article>>

More Over Creative Class, the Collaborative Class Is Here

Fast Company
6 short years ago, Richard Florida made waves with his national best seller The Rise of the Creative Class which examined the growing role creativity was playing in our society. Article>>

Making Networking Like Speed Dating

The Washington Post
You've probably been to one of those networking events where you meet people, strike up conversations, collect a handful of business cards, then never actually follow up and connect with those people again. Article>>

Modifying Preconceived Notions

Human Resource Executive Online
Despite what we've been hearing -- or at least garnering from all the surveys, studies and advice being offered about younger workers -- millennials seem to be pretty pleased with their bosses. Article>>

Random Shuffle: Video networking 'roulette' makes meets short and sweet

New York Post
It’s just before 8 p.m. on a Thursday, and Aleesha Nash is getting psyched up to introduce herself to a bunch of strangers. Article>>

Disruptive Technologies: Building a Better Social Network?

Fast Company
Ahh the joys of networking: huge bar tabs, drawn out circular conversations with close talkers and the otherwise socially awkward, and a fistful of business cards that won't ever see the light of day. Article>>

Want To Hire Smart? Ditch The Resumes

Business Insider
The tough economy means that hordes of hungry job seekers are applying for every open position. Article>>

The site stuff

New York Post
By now we all know Monster.com and LinkedIn, but practically every day new Web sites launch that aim to help you find jobs, stay on top of your industry, improve your career prospects or otherwise help you along in your work life. Article>>

Taking Risks to Boost Your Career

The Wall Street Journal
Penelope Trunk knows something about risk. A nationally syndicated columnist, Ms. Trunk shocked the business community when she revealed intimate details of her personal life on her blog. Article>>

Brazen Careerist Launch: Twitter meets Facebook meets LinkedIn meets Gen Y … and it’s about time.

Fast Company
The folks at Brazen Careerist realize college students and young professionals aren’t always able to pull from years of previous work experience when marketing themselves to potential employers. Article>>

Brazen Careerist Makes Professional Networking Less Painful

Lifehacker
Brazen Careerist, formerly a blog network headed by the oft-linked Penelope Trunk, launched today as a professional network that aims to help Generation Y share their ideas and interests, but maybe also land a job while doing so. Article>>

Brazen Careerist: A Professional Network That Realizes You're More Than Just A Resume

TechCrunch
The job market is absolutely brutal right now in many areas of the country – a fact that's doubly true for recent graduates whose resumes are still a little light on actual job experience. Article>>

Brazen Careerist: The Job Site for Gen Y?

Mashable
Brazen Careerist has quietly been a great place to connect with young Generation Y adults who care about changing the world, turning their passions into careers, and advancing themselves. Article>>

Brazen Careerist: LinkedIn for Gen Y

GigaOM
Brazen Careerist, the blog network spearheaded by well-known career advice blogger and columnist Penelope Trunk, launched a professional social network today aimed at connecting employers with prospective Generation Y hires. Article>>

Brazen Careerist

Thrillist
Potential employers have myriad ways to uncover info about your history, like querying former bosses, contacting clients you've worked with, and using your Facebook page to discover that you poke way too many Europeans. Article>>

Bridging the Knowledge Gap

Human Resource Executive
Employers may have good reason to be concerned about the lack of knowledge transfer in their organizations, according to a recent study by Randstad USA. Article>>

The Millennials Are Coming!

60 Minutes
Morley Safer reports on the new generation of "millennials." They are in their late teens to early twenties and could be ill prepared for a demanding workplace. Video>>

Blurring by Choice and Passion

The New York Times
I started writing this column while spending the weekend at the Jersey Shore where my mom has a home, and where, for most of my childhood life, work and life blurred together. Article>>

Careers: The Goods on Generation Y

BusinessWeek
Young people entering the workforce are changing the rules of the employment game. Article>>

New Grads Are Impatient for Promotions

The Wall Street Journal
Jacqui Buschor is frustrated. The top managers at the trade association where she works aren’t implementing her ideas, she says. Article>>

Show Them What You've Got

The Washington Post
Sometimes -- say, during the dot-com era of a decade ago -- all a job seeker needs is a simple, one-size-fits-all resume to nab a job, or at least an interview, in his or her field. Article>>

5 social networking keys for engaging with Gen-Y

Examiner.com
Thanks to Dan Schawbel, who posted The Top 10 Social Networks for Generation-Y on mashable.com. So, why do I thank Dan? Article>>

The Top 10 Social Networks for Generation Y

Mashable
With thousands of social networks globally, only a handful of them cater specifically to a special group of individuals, known as Generation-Y. Article>>

How Gen Y start ups use social media to shatter the status quo

Mashable
With 22.7% of 16-19 year olds unemployed and the financial and corporate landscape contracting right in front of them, the so-called Y Generation (Gen-Y) currently has the opportunity to take a strong hold on today’s business landscape. Article>>

Should Salaries Be Secret?

20/20
Part 1 of "20/20’'s" "What Are You Worth?" special. Video>>

Gen Y has money on the mind; financial advisers offer tips

San Jose Business Journal
Making smart choices about money is the top priority for Generation Y. Article>>

Young Workers More Likely to Break Corporate Rules for Web Apps

CIO
Growing up in the digital age, Millennials (those born after 1980) are far less likely to leave their preference of technology, specifically Web 2.0 applications, behind as they head to work. Article>>

Warning signs you could soon get a pink slip

CNN
Consumer confidence is at the lowest level in more than 14 years according to the Conference Board, a business and research organization that publishes the index. Article>>

Circuit City's plan to fire 3,400 will have ripple effects

USA Today
Circuit City Stores' (CC) decision to lay off 3,400 employees in order to hire lower-paid replacements is raising questions about the impact of severe cost-cutting on employee morale. Article>>

Snooping Bosses

Time
When one of his employees phoned in sick last year, Scott McDonald, CEO of Monument Security in Sacramento, Calif., decided to investigate. Article>>