50 Things You Can Do in 10 Minutes to Help Your Future Career

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10 minutes?  That's nothing!  You can't possibly do anything worthwhile in 10 minutes

... or can you?

I believe you can!  10 minutes can help you in your future career if you think creatively!

Here are 50 things you can do in 10 minutes to help your future career:

1. Delete inappropriate Facebook photos (suggestion from Lee Parsons, Facebook fan)
2. Study a small portion of your school work and understand it (suggestion from Claudelle Escalona, Facebook fan)
3. Change your Facebook bio to something interesting so that the person reading will be interested in 10 seconds! (suggestion from Rinzy Somerhalder, Facebook fan)
4. Work on your elevator pitch.
5. Practice your elevator pitch.
6. Read an article about the company you are interested in working for.
7. Create a Twitter account just for job search purposes.
8. Look for 5 people that you might connect with on Twitter.
9. Create your LinkedIn profile.
10. Write a fabulous bio for LinkedIn
11. Attache your resume to LinkedIn
12. Connect with people on LinkedIn that work for companies you would like to work for.
13. Find a group on LinkedIn that is focused on job search in your area.
14. Write a post or discussion in a LinkedIn group.
15. Answer a question in a post or discussion on LinkedIn.
16. Find a Facebook page or group that is relevant to your future career and join it.
17. Ask a question or give an answer in a Facebook group or on a page.
18. Create your own professional Facebook Page (a page is better than a group for these purposes because it is public access)
19. Share something valuable on your professional Facebook Page
20. Write a specific objective for your resume to be used when applying to a specific job.
21. Send an email to someone that is in your network to let them know that you are looking for a job and ask if there is anyone that they would be willing to introduce you to.
22. Search through your closet and put together the perfect interview outfit (do this several times until you have a few of them lined up if you can).
23. Send a thank you note to someone that has done something for you recently.
24. Prepare an answer for an interview question that you are likely to have ("Tell me about yourself" or "Tell me about a time that you...")
25. Practice answer a common interview question.
26. Put together a business card to give to people at networking events.
27. Find a forum online that is related to your career and join it.
28. Create a new thread on a forum that is related to your career.
29. Read an article (online or offline) that is related to something newsworthy in your career field.
30. Find a blog that is related to job search or your career field and subscribe to it by email so you don't miss any updates.
31. Outline a blog post that you could write for a blog that is focused on your career field.
32. Brainstorm a list of companies that you would like to work for.
33. Look up the company web sites of one of the companies you would like to work for.
34. Look for news articles of one of the companies you would like to work for.
35. Find out who the owner/CEO is for one of the companies you would like to work for.
36. Look for interviews with the owner/CEO of one of the companies you would like to work for.
37. Write a mission for yourself
38. Sit quietly and meditate on your mission.
39. Create a list of things to do this week that will get your further in your job search.
40. Create a Pinterest account and look for people that pin info on  your career or on job search.
41. Pin something on your Pinterest account about your career.
42. Create an about.me page to highlight who you are and why someone should hire you.
43. Create a list of things you have done on the job or in school that you are proud of and demonstrates a specific skill.
44. Record yourself talking about yourself and watch it to look for verbal communication that you may be relaying without knowing it (your webcam is great for this)
45. Study the want ads for people that are hiring in your career field (even if you're not ready to apply for them) and make a list of the skills that are required.
46. Look for information on anything to do with your career on YouTube.
47. Start your own YouTube channel.
48. Use your web cam to make a video about yourself to put on YouTube.
49. Write an email to request an informational interview with someone that has a job that you would like to have.
50. Make a list of questions to ask in an informational interview.

What else can you think of?  Leave your suggestions in a comment!