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Social Media Job Searching (Part 1)

Amongst constant media attention and countless blog posts, Social media is here to stay. And you better get used to it. I here a great deal of job seekers still asking “WHY DO I NEED TO DO THAT?” If that is a question on your mind or if you simply do not know how to get involved, this series is for you. The focus will be to understand the importance of social media in the job search and workplace environments, plus how to leverage that to achieve your next job or enhance your current career. Le… Continue

Added by Jason Monastra on September 21, 2009 at 9:48am — No Comments

Social Marketing... what are you waiting for?

There are die hards out there who still insist the best way to get a job is the old fashion way– newspaper ads and word-of-mouth. While I agree on the word-of-mouth (a.k.a. networking) point, let’s face it, the reality of finding a “career” through a newspaper ad is slim. So, if you are still unfamiliar with social marketing… Continue

Added by Erin Kennedy, CPRW, CERW on June 15, 2009 at 8:24am — 4 Comments

Technology to the Rescue

The next time you poo-poo technology (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or others), think about how they may actually be able to help you instead of waste your time. I read a great post about using Twitter to find jobs, Twittering for Jobs (which I found on Twitter, by-the-way). There were a couple of good take aways for me: One, use all media forms for your search: print, web, radio, TV, mobile, RSS, ne… Continue

Added by Hannah Morgan on May 16, 2009 at 5:30am — No Comments

Twitter for Termination Communication and More. . .

If you have ever heard me speak about Twitter, you know I am passionate about this social media platform and its possibilities. I am also an advocate of Twitter's use as a form of internal company communication as well as company branding and marketing possibilities. However, there are a handful of instances and examples that force me to draw the line especially when used in the Human Resource industry. * Terminations. An employee of the Doner Advertising Agency learned via Twitter from @thefou… Continue

Added by Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR on April 14, 2009 at 11:24pm — No Comments

Networking Online

Since I've been blogging and more active in social networking, I've had some neat experiences. I want to share them to help you understand how it can work for anyone. LinkedIn: I was looking for a contact name at a specific company for a job seeking friend. I sent an linkedin invitation to connect and the response I got was "call me, we need to talk". The phone call resulted in an attempt to try and recruit ME. Now, all I was trying to do was send this guy's profile over to the company contact… Continue

Added by Hannah Morgan on April 11, 2009 at 4:54am — No Comments

Another Warning: Careful what you are posting on Facebook

The famous U.K. university, the University of Cambridge, recently published a paper on how they developed a software tool that takes Facebook profiles that are publicly accessible (and other publicly available information via search engines) to mine/infer private data. From the article: "We focused on inferring information about a whole social graph...lists of every person and the connections between them," such as group memberships they had in common or geographic ties, says J… Continue

Added by Ralph Plaskett on April 7, 2009 at 8:45am — No Comments

Mullets & Your Social Media Image

According to Wikipedia, a mullet is a unisex hair style that is short in the front and long in the back. The mullet began making appearances in the popular media in the 1960s and 1970s but did not catch on with the masses until the early 1980s. Job seekers can learn from those that sport this fashionable cut when managing their online brand. A popular saying when describing a mullet comes to mind- "Business in the front. Party in the back." Wise words when considering your online brand while… Continue

Added by Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR on March 24, 2009 at 11:47pm — No Comments

Have you Googled yourself lately?

I remember when Google first came out, I could (and still can) find everything under the sun. I also remember a friend telling me how he googled himself. My initial reaction was, “You did what?!” When he told me what it meant, I was relieved but also perplexed. I asked myself, ‘why would anyone search for themselves on the Internet?’ Now keep in mind that this was nearly 10 years ago and googling yourself was relatively new and social networking as common. When I finally came around to googling… Continue

Added by Ralph Plaskett on March 24, 2009 at 9:21am — 1 Comment

I know it feels like we're breaking up, but can't we still be friends?

Every time I have to deliver the “bad news” to a candidate I feel this same way. Ther

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Added by Heather Gardner on October 30, 2008 at 4:21pm — 3 Comments

Online Reputation Management

If a potential employer searched for you online what would they find? Would it help you get a job, or hurt your chances? Online Reputation Management gives you the chance to gain an unfair advantage in your job search, by making it easier for you to be found. However, if not managed, your Online Reputation could deliver damage to your job search. Online Reputation Management has two parts: Managing Content: Much press has been made out of companies starting to check job seeke… Continue

Added by Phil Rosenberg on September 17, 2008 at 7:53pm — 2 Comments

PODCAST: How 5 recent grads used facebook to jumpstart job search

Willy Franzen, author of the One Day One Job blog conducted a fascinating experiment recently. He took 5 recent college graduates and had them create ads on facebook that targeted employers. In this interview he'll explain how he came up with the idea and share some of the success stories from the job seeker themselves.

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Added by Chris Russell on September 16, 2008 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

Use Facebook to Help You in Your Job Hunt!

By Miriam Salpeter Keppie Careers Blog: www.keppiecareers.wordpress.com Willy Franzen, from One Day, One Job, "an insider's guide to unique and exciting entry-level job and career opportunities for recent college graduates," recently ran an experiment with new c… Continue

Added by Miriam Salpeter on September 4, 2008 at 7:35pm — No Comments

Facebook Strategies – The Power of Facebook Groups

Want to communicate your subject matter expertise to a targeted audience, or would a scatter shot approach be more effective? If you want a tightly targeted audience, that will have a high likelihood of facing problems that you are uniquely qualified to solve, then check out Facebook’s groups, one of its most powerful features. Facebook is all about database segmentation, to allow highly targeted marketing. So why not use the same features that financial services, auto, and CPG companies see i… Continue

Added by Phil Rosenberg on September 2, 2008 at 6:02pm — 2 Comments

One Day, One Job Announces LinkedIn and Facebook Integration

We've added a new feature for entry-level networking called "Do I Know Anyone at." Now every daily employer profile will include links to Facebook and LinkedIn that will show you your closest connections at the given company. Continue

Added by Willy Franzen on August 11, 2008 at 12:28am — No Comments

Top 50 Web 2.0 Tools for Job seekers

So what’s all the fuss over Web 2.0? Web 2.0 is the interactive web, where users provide the content. Why does that matter to a job seeker? Because Web 2.0 gives every job seeker the opportunity to promote subject matter expertise. Web 2.0 gives multiple formats and platforms and tools to allow job seekers to announce to the world “I know my stuff!”.… Continue

Added by Phil Rosenberg on June 16, 2008 at 2:00am — 4 Comments

Why “Networking Doesn’t Work”

If you keep your eyes open, you’ll never stop being amazed.

Jason Alba of JibberJobber.com quoted stats generated by JobBait (a resum

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Added by Phil Rosenberg on April 18, 2008 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Facebook Recruitment Advertising

While going about my daily search for great entry-level jobs to write about, I came across a Facebook Flyer ad for YardBarker's entry-level jobs. I was impressed that they were using Facebook as a recruitment medium (employers really aren't taking advantage of this yet), but I think that YardBarker swung and missed on this one. With a few alterations to their ad, they could have come a… Continue

Added by Willy Franzen on March 25, 2008 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

FaceBook 101 for Job Seekers

You’re a manager. Why would you want to be on FaceBook with a bunch of college kids?

Simple…There’s 60 Million people on Facebook now, up from 25 Million 9 months ago. There’s only 15 million college students. Who do you think everyone else is?

The highest growing segment of FaceBook is the over 25 crowd…the hiring managers you want to network with and meet.

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Added by Phil Rosenberg on March 23, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments