There are a wide variety of career development, produced by organizations as well as by private consultants about the career industry which would be of interest to CDAA members. The vast majority of these blogs were compiled by Pamela D. Crawshaw-Prangnell of Lethbridge College who graciously allowed us to use her list. For additional blogs, not strictly about career development, but the HR industry we interact with, visit HR World Top 25 Career Blogs. If you are not sure how to collect or read blogs, this page also includes tips on how to subscribe to blogs To remove/list other resources, please contact the CDAA Webmaster. Blog RollAlltop Career a directory of traditional and new media sources about careers Career Services Informer from Simon Fraser University Career Services Janice Worthington's Job Search Tips Blog from the Career Board Justin Driscoll: Education Meets Industry Surpass Your Dreams: The Parallels of Your Career and the Careers of Celebrities How to Subscribe to a BlogYou can simply click on the links above and be taken to the web page that represents the blog. If you like the blog, you can add the blog site to your bookmarks. However, most of us don't always remember to check our bookmarks for new information. A blog, a web log, is a journal that allows comments, If you want to read a the new posts as they arrive, you need to subscribe to the blog. There are two methods to do this:
Look for this little image  which signals that there is a feed on the page. In Explorer, this button is on the right hand side of the browser tool bar and it appears orange when there are feeds on the page; if there are no feeds, the is grey. In Firefox, this is in the address bar. If you click on you browser will ask you how you would like to subscribe. Usually, the browser will create a pull down menu filled with your subscribed blogs and you need to check your blog bookmarks when you engage in your daily surfing.
A feed reader organizes your feeds in one place. You can download a feed reader, such as Feed Reader or Feed Demon or you can set up a profile on a site, such as Bloglines, and add your feeds to a profile, just as you store your mail in a browser mail account like Hotmail. You set up the reader and add your feeds as you find them. Feed readers have a variety of features, such as listening to a podcast within the feed reader or allowing you to keep your own blog about what you are reading. Feed readers are also very useful for subscribing to news headlines, such as the Wall Street Journal Career Journal, the Globe and Mail Report on Business, CBC Business and the NPR Business Podcasts. [ Back to Top ] |