Read the article Build Your Personal Brand In Four Weeks! Strategic Finance by Doug Arms.
http://www.kellyservices.com/ uploadedFiles/United_States_-_ Kelly_Services/New_Smart_ Content/Candidate_Resource_ Center/Job_Search_Strategies/ Fin_StrategicFinMag_ BuildBrand4Weeks.pdf
Read Hyder, S. (2014). 7 Things You Can Do To Build An Awesome Personal Brand.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/shamahyder/2014/08/18/7-things-you-can-do-to-build-an-awesome-personal-brand/2/
Read EBSCO article Talley, L. (2010). Set and Achieve Goals. Personal Excellence, 15(3), 5.
Read EBSCO article Polevoi, L. (2014). Building Your Personal Brand. Managing People at Work, (382), 5.
Read Symonds, M. (2013). Heading To Business School? An Essential Pre-MBA Strategy to Hit the Ground Running.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattsymonds/2013/05/29/heading-to-business-school-an-essential-pre-mba-strategy-to-hit-the-ground-running/
ASSIGMENT:
This week you learned about personal branding and what that means to your education and your career. Your assignment this week is to define your personal brand. This includes who you want to be and what you want to be known for professionally. You will expand upon the steps that you will take to establish and maintain your brand as you grow both educationally and professionally.
The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:
250 words (approximately 1 page) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below
Use font size 12 and 1" margins
Include cover page and reference page
At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing
No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references
Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.
References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.