Developing Your Career
Many of the Web sites listed below are blogs. By subscribing to the RSS feed of a blog, you can have new posts delivered as they are published to a reader in your Web browser. With an RSS feed, you can avoid filling your inbox with emails and read these posts when you have time. Google Reader is a free, Web-based reader for RSS feeds. Common Craft has a short video that does a great job explaining how RSS works.
Networking
- Recruiters say that trade association membership is a great way to get on their radar. By joining your local Building Industry Association or Home Builders Association, you will get the latest industry news and education as well as many opportunities for peer networking and business development.
- Each year, CBIA presents PCBC The Premier Building Show, the best professional development you'll find in the industry. You will gain knowledge and networking opportunities that you can't find anywhere else. It features hundreds of exhibiting companies displaying the latest product and service innovations and more than 65 workshops and seminars. In 2009, PCBC will be held June 17-19 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
- LinkedIn: An online networking tool for professionals.
- 100-Plus Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn
- Never Eat Alone
- Networking Insights
Career Advice
- Alltop Careers: Guy Kawasaki's collection of career blogs.
- Secrets of the Job Hunt
- Career Realism
- Fast Company's career pages
- New York Times Job pages
Next Generation Career Resources
- Brazen Careerist
- Newly Corporate
- BIA of San Diego Y Gen (Young Leaders)
- North State BIA's BUILD leadership program
- BIA of Orange County Next Generation Group
