Weekly blog round up (with a nod to Career's Week)

With next week being Career’s Week, I decided that a few of these links would be on this general topic.

Dustin Wax, Advice for Students: 10 Steps Toward Better Research, lifehack.org
There’s some great advice here from someone who isn't a librarian. From when it’s appropriate to use Wikipedia, to allowing time for the research process, and the importance of taking a moment to familiarize yourself with the resources you have, particularly the library resources. He says some nice things about librarians too :)

Jim Heskett, How Will Millennials Manage?, HBS Working Knowledge
"There seems to a fixation these days on millennials as employees. But what kind of managers will they make?" Make sure you read the comments.

Ryan Paugh, Marketing Yourself Outside the Box, Employee Evolution
"Linked-In, Facebook and MySpace are all great ways to network online, but if you want to take things a step further, create your own Website [or blog]"

Penelope Trunk, To find your best next job, focus on the company not the job, Brazen Careerist
"... the best companies don’t use money as a recruiting tool. It’s not that they think you don’t care about money. But they know they cannot differentiate themselves with money."

Clarke Ching, When Trust Goes AWOL, StickyMinds.com
"The best way to build—or rebuild—trust is to act in a trustworthy way. I only needed to see my mobile’s alarm clock work properly once before I trusted it and thereafter I slept soundly, but it takes longer to build trust in people."

Seamus McCauley, Paying for the luxury of ignorance, Virtual Economics
The author disagrees with Google's Chief Economist's statement that it is easy to switch search engines. Although it is not difficult to go to a different search engine, people tend to stick with information sources that they trust. Putting on my librarian hat, I make a distinction between just "looking something up" and in-depth research. When doing the former, it's ok to do what's easiest and most comfortable, but the latter is work, and requires exploring all appropriate sources even-handedly.