Students of the Week

We are big fans of students here at about.me – and it’s clear students like us too. We’ve seen a major increase in students on the site in the past year. One reason for the increase is that there are simply more people than ever creating pages. But there’s also something specific driving student engagement.

Beatrice Tretbar on about..me

Pages help students present themselves positively. While a resume may still be necessary to get a job or internship, it only focuses on what you’ve done. Using just a resume (or CV) students will always come off looking second-best compared to someone with more experience. But experience isn’t everything.

An about.me page allows students to showoff their passions, personality and where they’re heading, in addition to past experience. And the free business cards don’t hurt either.

evankuhl

The students here represent just a sliver of the academic community on about.me. Try searching for your college or university to find current or former classmates, professors and coaches. Also, be sure to add your educational info in your biography section while editing your page.

judyejuarez

everald25

For all you students: Now is a much more pleasant time to update your page and resume than during finals or your first week of summer! For instructions on how to upload a resume to your about.me page click here.

One response to Students of the Week

  1. Reblogged this on Tony Conrad and commented:
    In this social age, students need to communicate their passions, personality and where they’re heading – I think that’s one of the main reasons we’ve seen such enthusiastic adoption of about.me by College Students amongst our broad community of users.

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