If you’ve been following the OITE blog this year, you know that in the start of 2012 we decided to help you make a Calendar for Career Success. We picked topics, and blogged about them, giving you advice (and sometimes challenges) each month to help you drive your career. In short, we wanted 2012 to be the ‘Year for Your Career.’ And given that it is December, it is time to sit back and reminisce about the past year – because that is what everyone does in December, right? Some of the things we talked about this year included having conversations about your career goals. Not just you and your…
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LinkedIn Endorsements: What are they?
In Sept 2012, LinkedIn added a new feature to their site to allow anyone to endorse anyone else. LinkedIn suggests that this new tool can be a way for you to recognize the good work done by your connections. http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/09/24/introducing-endorsements-give-kudos-with-just-one-click/ While the premise of the endorsement is positive, the way we see them being implemented is diluting their value. Here in the OITE many of our inboxes are being filled with eager readers endorsing us. While we love feeling smart, we question the value of endorsements when people are acknowledging us for skills they have never seen us use. For example: fellows have been endorsing our science skills when some…