Archive for November, 2010

Recently, I got to attend an Intel event in NYC. Alison Wesley, from the Intel PR consumer team, asked me to write a blog post for Intel’s consumer blog, recapping the event. If you’re interested, check out the post here! http://scoop.intel.com/2010/11/more-than-just-a-chip-company.php


The Process

23Nov10

I’m putting the materials together for a press kit right now. I had no idea how much of a process this is. Really, I thought I could just write the materials, send them to my manager, get her approval, then send them off to the Intel newsroom. Nope, not so much. I guess I should [...]


Staying Sane

12Nov10

I was supposed to leave at 8 this morning on a flight out to Santa Clara for a face-to-face with the Intel PR team. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans for me. Thanks to the excessive fog surrounding the Hillsboro airport, it’s almost 10 and our plane hasn’t even arrived in Hillsboro yet. Consequently, myself [...]


“Dress for the job you want, not the job you have” – Anonymous Building on the interview theme I started last week, I thought I’d talk today about how to dress for an interview. A mistake many people make early in their careers is not putting enough thought into their initial appearance (I don’t mean [...]


  Remember the first interview you had for a job that you really wanted? I remember mine. Hopefully you were more prepared than I was. I stuttered, rambled and was caught off guard by almost every question. Needless to say, I didn’t get the job. Luckily, that was quite a few years ago. Since then, [...]



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