HireFriday on Twitter and Facebook
The sole purpose of HireFriday is to feature job seekers, give them visibility, and connect them with our contact networks.
HireFriday is a special place where we can shower job seekers around the world with attention, extol their virtues, bolster their self-worth, and let them know that we care about their transition. The following guiding principles have been developed with the job seeker in mind. Please be respectful, taking into consideration that the HireFriday twitter stream, and facebook page was developed with them in mind.
- Post your resume, and linkedin profile to the #HireFriday twitter stream or:
- Post the job seekers @name/desired job title/industry preference/location/descriptive and targeted key words.
- RT the job seekers in the HireFriday stream to your followers on twitter, and friends on facebook.
- If you think a position might suit the job seeker in the HireFriday stream, tweet a job their way, but don’t put it into the twitter stream.
- Post interesting career development articles that will help job seekers accelerate their re-employment.
- Post encouraging quotes to help job seekers keep their spirits up.
It’s tough out there for job seekers. The economy has not yet turned around for the job market. The twitter and linkedin stream is loaded with great job opportunities. I respectfully request that recruiters, and job boards refrain from posting jobs into the twitter stream, as I am concerned it will drown out the job seekers voice, and will become just another twitter/facebook job board. Twitter, in particular does not need another job board. I created HireFriday as an alternative space. It is a reverse job listing site, instead it lists candidates in the midst of an earnest and active search.
I am grateful for the support of all the vendors, job boards, and commercial entities who support HireFriday. I only ask that you do not use this space for commercial gain. Let’s try to keep the stream for the job seekers. If you see a job seeker that might be a match for one of your positions, by all means, contact them directly. That is why I created this site-to connect job seekers with recruiters and hiring managers.
I estimate that 85% of my follower base is comprised of HR Professionals and Recruiters. Every time I retweet a job seeker in my stream, they are getting exposure to people who might be in a position to interview them. That is the joy of HireFriday. Each of us can be a recruiter for our friends, and loved ones. One day a week, each of us can wave the flag for a job seeker we know. One day a week, the job seeker can toot his or her own horn in the HireFriday stream.
My mission is to help job seekers accelerate their re-employment. This is my way of giving back to the community that supported me during my own career transition. Please help me pay it forward. HireFriday is good job karma. By embracing the guidelines listed above, we can keep it that way.
Your twitter pal and facebook friend,
@HRMargo
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Clappin’ my hands and singin’ along! Thanks … I needed that!
Just found out about you and HireFriday, and will be joining in to get some new momentum.
I’m so excited you found us. HireFriday is my passion. My goal is to give job seekers visibility and access to my contact network. Just think, if each of us did this, the unemployment rate might go down, and we’d all be paying it forward. Thank you for reading my blog.
Nice Work Margo. As a Head Hunter in Toronto I search #Hirefriday with #Toronto hastag included. It makes it easier to find local #hirefriday posts. This applies to all cities and will make it easier for Recruiters to find you:)
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That’s a great idea, so the #HireFriday can be read by usually “out of reach” people…
Thank you for creating #HireFriday! So if I want to be added to the candidates put out there on HireFriday I just tweet my website or linked in profile with the HireFriday hashtag? Or do I sign up somewhere?
Thank you!
Margo, I’m only seeing this today rather than when the blog entry was first posted, thanks to your tweeting it today. Thank you so much for creating HireFriday!
Thanks Ed, I’m happy to have you on board
Thanks to Charissa, Bruno, Craig your input is very much appreciated
Hi Ed,
Thank you so much for posting the guidelines for Hire Friday. I have a few questions. I have been out of work for a long time. I am working towards my MBA and have over 15 years of experience in the Financial Services industry. I would like to join Hire Friday but I want to know if I can join myself or does an HR person have to post my information? I would like to get back to work soon and this forum seems as if it would be a big help. Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Nelceina
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Hi Margo,
Thanks for this outlet. Can you tell me how to tweet the Hirefriday message to my facebook friends?
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Dear Cecil: posting your contact information and credentials on facebook and linkedin is identical to how we do it on twitter. Your name, job title, industry, location, key words, and a link to your resume or linkedin profile. We’ll retweet, repost all over the internet on your behalf. You have to like our page on facebook, and join our group on linkedin.
Great post Margo
Having these guidelines at hand should make the job search a more fruitful. These days, you can’t throw your resume around like confetti and just hope you will get a job; job searches have to be more focused and well thought out before execution…saves the job seeker time, grief and puts more energy doing the right things to get the job search going and growing.
Karen, The Resume Chick (in Google or Twitter if you need me)
I’d like to thank Chris for taking the time to write an excellent post. I appreciate Karen, Leena and Ed for commenting. Have a great weekend everyone.
Great idea, might have to add this to my product road map. I am sure the we could work out a way of connecting the online resumes from ConnectCV.com to this. Great initiative
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That is terrific! This is what social media is for. You rule. Hats off – going to follow.
just saw this today, too. great job on hirefriday! it sends about hope for us job seekers as well as the self-respect that most unemployed people lose.
This is fantastic! What a huge contribution. I’m going to revamp my resume and Web site and post them. Thanks!
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