GS Assignment

Personal Branding

This week you learned about personal branding and what that means to your education and your career. Your assignment this week is to define your personal brand. This includes who you want to be and what you want to be known for professionally. You will expand upon the steps that you will take to establish and maintain your brand as you grow both educationally and professionally. 

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

• 250 words (approximately 1 page) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins
• Include cover page and reference page
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references
• Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

Read

Read the article Build Your Personal Brand In Four Weeks! Strategic Finance by Doug Arms.

http://www.kellyservices.com/ uploadedFiles/United_States_-_ Kelly_Services/New_Smart_ Content/Candidate_Resource_Center/Job_Search_Strategies/ Fin_StrategicFinMag_ BuildBrand4Weeks.pdf

• Read Hyder, S. (2014). 7 Things You Can Do To Build An Awesome Personal Brand.http://www.forbes.com/sites/shamahyder/2014/08/18/7-things-you-can-do-to-build-an-awesome-personal-brand/2/
• Read EBSCO article Talley, L. (2010). Set and Achieve Goals. Personal Excellence, 15(3), 5. 
• Read EBSCO article Polevoi, L. (2014). Building Your Personal Brand. Managing People at Work, (382), 5. 
• Read Symonds, M. (2013). Heading To Business School? An Essential Pre-MBA Strategy to Hit the Ground Running.http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattsymonds/2013/05/29/heading-to-business-school-an-essential-pre-mba-strategy-to-hit-the-ground-running/