10 Career Blogs for the Millennial Set

10 Career Blogs for the Millennial Set Welcome to Top 10, Recruiter.coms weekly rundown of the bestof the best in recruiting Every Friday, we release a list of some of our favorite people, things, and ideas dominating the industry. From awesome tech tools and cool companies to great books and powerful trends, no stone in the recruiting space will be left unturned.This WeekTop 10 Millennial Career BloggersOriginally, this welches going to be a list of bloggers who were millennials and who wrote about career issues. Then, we realized that was kind of a dumb idea. What, Gen. Y is so self-involved that its members can only learn from otzu sich millennials? No way there are plenty of non-millennial bloggers out there who offer valuable career advice to Gen. Y.What follows, then, is a list of bloggers some millennials, some Gen. X-ers, maybe even some boomers? We didnt exactly go out and verify everyones birthdate, because that would be creepy whom millen nials should turn to when they need some career guidance.1. Jenny BlakeWhere you can read her Life After CollegeWhy you should read her As the sites title would suggest, Blakes Life After College is all about helping recent grads make the transition from student to professional. As an author, speaker, and career coach, Blakes self-described goal is to help people ditch the rigidity of yesterdays career ladder and treat their careers (and lives) as dynamic as the constantly customizable apps on a smart phone. In posts like Frustrated trying to figure out your life purpose? Try this one and the Magnetic Personal Projects series, Blake definitely succeeds in her endeavor.Shout-out to Lisa Lewis, founder of So Much More Career Coaching, for putting Blake on our radar.2. Kayla KozanWhere you can read her Kozans work has appeared in numerous places around the Web, but shes most easily found on the Ideal Candidate blog (she serves as Ideal Candidates marketing coordinator).Why you should r ead her Kozans post, Why Millennials Make Incredible Salespeople, landed on a couple best-blog-posts-of-the-year lists in 2015, and we can totally see why. This-data driven piece is a great illustration of what you can expect from Kozan an analytical mindset, an emphasis on facts instead of baseless musing, and well-supported arguments that youd be hard-pressed to refute.3. J. Maureen HendersonWhere you can read her Generation MehWhy you should read her Its so hard to find a career advice blog thats actually enjoyable to read in and of itself. No matter how good the insights are, most career blogs remind me of the well-meaning lectures my father would deliver when I was in high school. Sure, it turns out he was right about a lot, but I probably would have started taking his advice a lot sooner if he werent such a snoozefest.Generation Meh is the rare career blog that is a genuine pleasure to read. Hendersons posts often sound more like the kind of thing youd find in a lit mag than t he kind of thing youd find on ERE (This time last year, give or take a couple of days, I was hand-washing underwear in the bathroom sink of a Motel 6 next to the Dallas Fort Worth airport, a recent post begins). Hendersons unconventional insights serve as necessary counters to the generic career advice that litters the Web. You werent ready to be who you are today five years ago. Those years were an investment, not a write-off. Enjoy the ROI. Skip the guilt,she writes in one post. Where else are you going to find such a clear-eyed take on career paths?4. Ramit SethiWhere you can read him I Will Teach You to Be RichWhy you should read him Ramit Sethi is going to show you how to be rich. He says so right there in the title of his website (and his bestselling book). Thats not just big talk, though. Sethis blog is full of no-nonsense, highly practical advice about how to advance in your career and manage your money smartly. If youre looking to keep your wallet fat and your bank account full, do yourself a favor and start reading Sethis blog.Shout-out to Allen Walton at SpyGuy Security for putting Sethi on our radar.5. Nir EyalWhere you can read him Nir and FarWhy you should read him Eyals blog is all about behavior engineering, which Eyal describes as the applied science of psychology to design practical solutions to peoples problems.So, what sort of things can you expect from Nir and Far? A quick survey of the front page reveals posts on building a zen desktop, the intersection of humans and artificial intelligence, and why threatening to burn $100 bills is a good way to motivate yourself.If that doesnt make you want to check out Eyals blog, I dont know what will6. Ben CasnochaWhere you can read him Casnocha.comWhy you should read him If you want to follow an entrepreneurial path, rather than a traditional full-time employment path, then Casnochas blog is the blog for you. bedrngnis only does Casnocha have a wealth of knowledge on the ins and outs of starting an d running a successful business, but he also has a lot to say about the overall entrepreneurial lifestyle. For example, hes written about the loneliness that often comes with entrepreneurship and why outsiders are in the best position to innovate.7. Michelle WardWhere you can read her When I Grow UpWhy you should read her Ward is a career coach who helps creative women find careers that are not only financially rewarding, but fulfilling and meaningful, too. Shes all about recovering the magic you felt as a child, before the grown-up world smacked you in the face and told you that following your dreams was a bad idea. But that doesnt mean youre going to find any platitudes or wishful thinking on Wards blog. Instead, what you will find is realistic advice about how to actually make your dream career into a reality.My favorite thing about Wards blog is the client case studies series, where Ward explores the very real paths that very real women have taken to leaving soul-sucking jobs a nd traveling the world and launching creative, grown-up businesses and simply doing work that fits their lifestyle goals. Dont think your dream career is attainable? Read these case studies first.8. Kirk BaumannWhere you can read him universittsgelnde to CareerWhy you should read him Much like Life After College, Baumanns Campus to Career focuses largely on the transition from dorm room to office space. Baumann is an excellent and insightful blogger in his own right, but what I really love about Campus to Career is that Baumann has made plenty of room for guest contributors to join the conversation. This makes it so that the Campus to Career blog contains a host of different perspectives on forging a career after college. Career advice is never a one-size-fits-all matter, and the feed of distinct points of view cultivated by Baumann has a little something for everyone.9. Derek SallWhere you can read him Life and My FinancesWhy you should read him If youre a millennial, theres a good chance youre shouldering quite a bit of debt (thanks student loans). Want to get out from under that debt as soon as possible? Sall is your man.Check this out Sall paid off an $18,000 debt in 14 months. When another crisis hit, he paid over a $21,000 debt in six months. He also paid off his mortgage in a scant 12 months.What Im saying is Sall clearly knows how to master debt. Hes not wallowing in it so why should you? Pick up some valuable tips and tricks from this guy ASAP.10. Laurie RuettimannWhere you can read her LaurieRuettiman.comWhy you should read her If you havent heard of Ruettimann already, theres no time like the present to start following her smart and witty blog. One minute, shes musing on her work-life-cat balance problems, and the next shes teaching you how to be vulnerable at work.Ruettimans blog is fun, flippant (in a good way), and packed with vital insights. She used to run a site called Punk Rock HR, and though the site is no more, thats still, in my opinion, the best way to describe Ruettimann to the uninitiated.mc_embed_signupbackgroundfff clearleft font14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif /* Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. 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