Interesting Blog

Seth Godin writes an amazing blog about the new marketing. His ideas are truly for the 21st century!

Here is the one that I really loved recently.

Graduate school for unemployed college students

Fewer college grads have jobs than at any other time in recent memory—a report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers annual student survey said that 20 percent of 2009 college graduates who applied for a job actually have one. So, what should the unfortunate 80% do?

How about a post-graduate year doing some combination of the following (not just one, how about all):

• Spend twenty hours a week running a project for a non-profit.
• Teach yourself Java, HTML, Flash, PHP and SQL. Not a little, but mastery.
• Volunteer to coach or assistant coach a kids sports team.
• Start, run and grow an online community.
• Give a speech a week to local organizations.
• Write a regular newsletter or blog about an industry you care about.
• Learn a foreign language fluently.
• Write three detailed business plans for projects in the industry you care about.
• Self-publish a book.
• Run a marathon.

Beats law school.

If you wake up every morning at 6, give up TV and treat this list like a job, you'll have no trouble accomplishing everything on it. Everything! When you do, what happens to your job prospects?"

This is from Seth Godin's blog dated June 9th. Interesting stuff! Many high school students can also do these things during some "down time." Start a blog that interests you, organize a fundraiser for a non-profit, learn a foreign language, volunteer to coach a kids sports team or self publish a book (does not need to be fiction). ALL of these things can be added to a resume!