How to be found on twitter:  Marie Journey’s guest post.  Marie is one of the most popular and skilled candidate sourcers in the industry.  Watch this video, and you will hear her story about her own personal journey.  Marie also teaches you how to strengthen your digital footprint.  Like me, she was in transition in 2009, and rose above the recession to emerge victorious.

Unemployment is hard.  HireFriday can help.  In this community you will find people who are willing to roll up their sleeves and help you, and you will also find strength in one another.  What’s beautiful about HireFriday is that you will never feel alone, or forgotten again.  We are here to help you.  As Marie suggests, read Chris’s post.   Chris offers a job aid for how to use tweetdeck and other twitter applications to filter in-or-out the information on twitter that you may want to follow.  In addition, I’d like you to read my “Guidelines for Hirefriday.” It is there I share how to best use this day for your job search.

#HireFriday Job Tips for 2010 by Marie Journey

1. Increase your digital footprint: Ways include being involved in highly visible groups, discussions, blog posts, tweets/retweets for your profession/niche/skill set.  Also, video! Video! Video! Why? Nothing brings you to the top of searches like video…so whip out a video resume, do a video conference, and add video responses to those online communities! Kay Kelison offers detailed insight regarding Video Resumes: HERE
2. Engage people that speak your language!  Good recruiters can recruit any person for any job…given enough time.  For example, I speak tech.  Meaning, I’m a technical recruiter and understand the language, skills, career path for those tech savvy folks.  If you are an accountant, then please focus in on recruiters that have the experience and understanding to do the best job for you in the quickest amount of time. *Stop spamming a person that doesn’t understand you and have a real conversation and connection with those that do*
3. Be clear and transmit your contact information.  No, don’t list your personal information all over the internet!  Do have a dedicated email for job searches.  Do have your profile on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networks that people in your profession use.  Do check your inbox on a regular basis.  When you get pinged by a recruiter for an interview, do list the best method of reaching you and the time zone you will be in at that given moment.
4. If you follow me, then I can DM (Direct Message) you!  On Twitter follow recruiters or people that you would like to contact you directly. So follow @mariejourney.
5. Be a Talent Sandwich!  When networking for jobs let people that mentored you in the past know you are looking and the best information to forward to recruiters.  Also, people that you mentored in the past should be given the same.  Why?  They may get a ping from a recruiter asking: Have you mentored anybody in the past you could recommend OR Is there anybody that mentored you in the past that you would recommend?  Frankly, recruiters may not intentionally shoot high or low on experience and reach out to people that are not interested in the role that you would be. a
6. Do submit your resume as a Microsoft Word Document only and be sure to manually hide grammatical and spelling errors when you save the document.  Just because you click OK or ignore, does not mean that those red and green marks are gone on my end.  It differs per version, but just search Help for “Hide Errors”.  Why not PDF and avoid the hassle?  Tools for recruiting do not play well with PDF.  Want to know why?  Craig Fisher explains HERE
7. If Jim Stroud says it, then believe it.  He offers over two hours of actionable items on how to find a job.  Click HERE
8. Have Hope
9. Have Compassion

10.  Help others via #HireFriday

My readers know how much I love a theme song for each post.  Today’s theme song is “bullet proof,” because when you are out there in the job search I want you to feel invincible.

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