Are all of the hours spent on your social networking site of choice really something that you can leverage in a job interview? Simply put...yes.
If you are a master of MySpace of Facebook you are well on your way to a possible career in advertising through online media and virtual communities. Take a few marketing courses, there should be some offered for non-majors through your business school if you are not majoring in business. If you really want to market yourself, take some entry-level web programming and design courses as well. That would be a deadly mix of education and technical know-how that you could deliver to many companies and recruiters.
It may mean that dodgeball 101 will have to wait, but take some challenging electives that will be rewarding when looking for jobs and also balance out your skill set.
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Calling All MySpace Addicts: The Ad Industry Needs You - Wired.com (accessed 6.25.2007)
