Launch your Career by Launching a Website

One of the best tactics for dramatically boosting your credentials, adding power to your resume, and leapfrogging your competition is by building a Website that serves colleagues in your profession. It's a terrific means of showing initiative, demonstrating expertise, and making contacts for networking.

But there are a lot of choices as to what type of site you should build, and what sort of content it should specialize in. Follow these great steps for deciding what the focus of your professional resource Website should be.

Look at what's Currently Available
Start planning your professional-resource Website by surfing the Net to see what's already out there. Not that your site has to be the most brilliantly original creation for it to do great things in your career. To be honest, just the fact that you went through the effort of building a site for your profession is enough to boost your resume and impress hiring managers. But it's all the better if it's useful, unique, and valuable to the profession.

Talk to Fellow Practitioners
Discuss what people in your profession would really like to find in a Website. Granted, people don't always know what they want until they see it. But the very process of asking about it can do things for your career. It's a great way to start a meaningful discussion -- terrific networking. Best of all, built into the conversation is subtle but effective horn-blowing about the capabilities you possess and your exceptional initiative in applying them. Enhance both the research and networking aspects of the discussion by taking lots of notes as you talk.