Chris Perry, MBA, is a Gen Y brand and marketing generator, brand marketing manager, career search and personal branding expert, professional speaker, entrepreneur and brand consultant. Chris is the founder of Career Rocketeer, the Career Search and Personal Branding Network, MBA Highway, the MBA Job Search and Career Network and multiple other ventures.

Recognized as a thought leader on a variety of job search and personal branding topics, he has been featured in publications, including Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0 (Wiley 2011) and media outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, SmartMoney, ABCNews, CNNMoney, TheLadders, Monster.com and more.

As a professional speaker, Chris offers career search and personal branding workshops and presentations to a variety of audiences. As a consultant, he frequently assists professionals, entrepreneurs and businesses with marketing, branding and social media.

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2011 Hired for the Holidays Giveaway

Holiday Gift

Happy Holidays from Career Rocketeer!
What’s at the top of your holiday wishlist this year?
Is it your dream job? If so, we want to help you get it!
While the 2011 Hired for the Holidays Giveaway has now been closed, we still have several things to offer you to help you in your job search and [...]

Top 25 Must-Have iPhone Apps for Your Job Search

iPhone Apps Job Seekers

In today’s ever-challenging job market, job seekers must be on the hunt for new opportunities 24/7 to maintain a competitive advantage over other top job candidates.
But to do so successfully, job seekers must have constant access, both at home and on the go, to their social and professional networks, up-to-date job postings and powerful tools [...]

LinkedUp: The Ultimate LinkedIn Job Search Guide

LinkedUp Featured

LinkedUp is the Ultimate LinkedIn Job Search Guide.
Your network is one of the most valuable assets you can leverage throughout your career. In today’s digital age, many first impressions begin with an online search, making it imperative that you be present, searchable and branded online.
LinkedIn is a powerful tool for not only increasing [...]

Should You BeKnown or LinkedIn?

BeKnown Professional Networking App

LinkedIn has long been the leading personal branding and professional networking tool and network online for professionals and students worldwide.
However, Monster.com just launched BeKnown, a professional networking app for Facebook that dramatically changes the way Facebook users can leverage this traditionally social network to establish their personal brands, develop connections and advance their job [...]

REACHING NEW HEIGHTS: 2011 MBA CSC Annual Conference

MBACSC

Career Rocketeer is proud to partner with the MBA Career Services Council (MBA CSC) to promote its 2011 MBA CSC Annual Conference in Keystone, CO for MBA career services professionals and MBA employers.

REACHING NEW HEIGHTS
Getting to the top is rarely done alone! Join your colleagues from around the globe in the beautiful Rocky [...]

Top 10 LinkedIn Profile Deal Breakers

LinkedIn Profile Deal Breaker

Regardless of how active you choose to be on LinkedIn on a weekly, monthly or even yearly basis, it is essential that you ALWAYS maintain a complete and up-to-date LinkedIn profile.  This not only serves as your resume online to which you can refer new contacts you meet in your job search and/or career networking, [...]

Do You Really Match Your Target Employers?

Universum Survey

What career type are you? Which industries fit your career profile? Do you really match your current or target employers? What employers do you match best with?
Get answers to these and many more questions by taking the Universum Student and Professional 2011 Survey.
Each year, Universum conducts a survey to gather global research on career [...]

Launchpad: Your Career Search Strategy Guide (Vol. 4)

Launchpad 4

We are pleased to announce the launch of Volume 4 of Launchpad: Your Career Search Strategy Guide. Launchpad is YOUR ultimate career search strategy guide, a career book series with exclusive articles by the top career experts in the industry.
Launchpad covers topics including: resume optimization, interviewing, personal branding, career search strategizing, professional networking, the [...]

Launchpad Goes Digital!

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Career Rocketeer is now proud to offer the Launchpad: Your Career Search Strategy Guide series for download in pdf format at $3.99 each (50% off the price of our previous print versions on Amazon.com).
Check out Launchpad and get your copy today!
For those of you unfamiliar with the series, Launchpad is YOUR ultimate career search strategy [...]

Top 25 LinkedIn Groups ALL Job Seekers MUST Join

LinkedIn Groups

One feature you job seekers may not know about or have fully explored is LinkedIn Groups. LinkedIn Groups are free to join, and you can choose to join up to 50 groups from a list of thousands of user-created groups for literally just about anything. Not only do these groups provide you access to connect [...]