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Might I get a better job than this if I developed my personal brand?

Find out.

Hello.

Every couple of months or so I receive an email from an ex-student asking if I'd be so very kind as to write them a reference.

But nowadays these correspondence don't want a simple acknowledgement of their academic prowess,

their grasp of sociology, their class of degree, they want a testimonial to their character.

It'll be very useful if you could stress my complete integrity, nudge one such writer.

One another felt it necessary to tell me the job they were after had specified someone with well-developed interpersonal skills.

Well, I asked a colleague who still worked in a university how she dealt with such impossible character requests.

Well, she said I simply write what they want me to write.

Integrity, tick, interpersonal skills, tick, the emotional intelligence, tick.

Anything which helps the poor devils to sell themselves.

How to sell yourself and why you now need to sell yourself rather than merely listing

your proven skills and qualifications.

But all that is the heart of a new book called Down and Out in the New Economy.

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