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Ryan Healy
Ryan Healy is the Co-Founder/COO of Brazen Careerist and regularly writes about careers, young professionals and entrepreneurship. He has been named one of 20 Entrepreneurs To Watch by Worth Magazine, and has been featured on 60 Minutes, 20/20, CNN and PBS Nightly News. Before Brazen, Ryan graduated from Pennsylvania State University, and was a Consultant for IBM Business Consulting Services. Follow Ryan on Twitter or connect with him on LinkedIn.
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Exciting Changes at Brazen Careerist: More Chances to Get Recruited
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | July 24, 2012
A letter from Ryan Healy, Co-Founder & COO of Brazen Careerist, to you. Read »
Why Recruiting the Right Talent Matters Now More Than Ever
By Ryan Healy | 1 Comment | March 19, 2012
Talent may not look like it used to, but the need for recruiting, nurturing and retaining the “best of the best” is vital for organizations to succeed. Read »
Brazen.me: Get Your Infographic Resume on Facebook!
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | September 6, 2011
Ever wanted an awesome infographic resume? Now there’s an app for that — and we’re happy to bring it to you. Read »
Why You Need To Stop Worrying About Saving Money
By Ryan Healy | 33 Comments | August 8, 2011
If you’re a young professional and you have grand ambitions of having a wildly successful career, saving money should be the least of your worries right now. There’s other stuff you should focus on when it comes to your career. Read »
The Future of Brazen: Highly Educational, Incredibly Useful and Totally Live
By Ryan Healy | 19 Comments | May 24, 2011
Today is the beginning of what we refer to in the office as Brazen 3.0: A new logo, a new blog, a focus on Network Roulette and Virtual Recruiting Events, and a new purpose and vision for the future of Brazen. We have a new team and we’re ready to rock and roll to make [...] Read »
Introducing Network Roulette: Networking Made Easy
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | November 9, 2010
I wasn’t feeling so hot last Wednesday, but was determined to make it to that night’s networking event. I left work around 5 pm and after grabbing a beer to help conquer my hesitation to talk to strangers, I met some really great people. One guy was an entrepreneur who founded the hottest company in [...] Read »
Share Even More Ideas! Introducing Real-Time Feed Management
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | April 27, 2010
Today we launched an exciting new feature that lets you import multiple feeds to your Social Resume, and easily manage the content you share with your Brazen Careerist network. We’ve also taken our first step towards a real-time experience by utilizing the PubSubHubbub protocol, which allows us to import your new posts immediately. It works [...] Read »
3 New Features To Improve Your Brazen Experience
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | April 12, 2010
When you log in to your Brazen Careerist account today, you’ll probably notice some exciting changes we rolled out over the weekend. We’re constantly working to provide our members with the best possible user experience, and this latest release is designed to do just that. A New Sidebar The most obvious change we made was [...] Read »
Manage Your Entire Professional Network From Brazen Careerist
By Ryan Healy | 5 Comments | February 18, 2010
We first integrated with Twitter as a way for members to share professional related tweets with their Brazen Careerist network. Since then, it’s been fascinating to watch what types of content people deem professional and how they curate this content by sending it back to their Brazen Careerist profiles. Today, we’ve completely opened up, and [...] Read »
Use Social Media to Make Every Employee a Recruiter
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | November 23, 2009
This post was originally posted at Employee Evolution Linkedin started the concept of Social Recruiting when they launched in 2003, and now it’s the buzz of the recruiting world. ERE just hosted a social recruiting conference to discuss the do’s and don’ts of social recruiting. Of course, some of the hot topics are around whether Twitter, Facebook [...] Read »
Follow Group Activity From Your Fan Feed
By Ryan Healy | 1 Comment | November 15, 2009
We rolled out an improvement to the fan feed that lets you follow all of the conversations going on in your groups. Before this release, your fan feed displayed what your fans were doing, but the only way to see all of your group activity was to go directly to the group or to receive [...] Read »
Forget Work-Life Balance And Build A Lifestyle
By Ryan Healy | No Comments | November 12, 2009
This post was originially posted at Employee Evolution In a recent talk, Tony Hsieh, the CEO and founder of Zappos was asked about how the company manages work-life balance. Hsieh replied, “For most companies (work-life balance) implies that work must suck so much you need a life on the outside. At Zappos we’re more focused on creating [...] Read »
We’re Live! Check Out the New Brazen Careerist Right Now.
By Ryan Healy | 3 Comments | August 25, 2009
As most of you know, Brazen Careerist has been live since March 2008. But, really, we just launched it today. The site has gone from an idea, to a tiny aggregator of 50 Gen Y bloggers, to a network of thousands with social networking features like profiles and groups. And now, we’re taking the giant [...] Read »
Brazen Groups Are Live!
By Ryan Healy | 1 Comment | June 10, 2009
If you didn’t join the private beta launch of Brazen Groups, I highly recommend you go check out the live version today! We officially opened groups up to all members of Brazen Careerist this morning, and we’re really excited to see how they evolve. Groups give our community the ability to create whatever content they [...] Read »