Archive for February, 2012

Add Twitter To Your Job Hunt Mix

It was a pleasure to be interviewed by @NewsThatRocks for The Nashville News, and Their YouTube Channel. I thought you’d like to take a peak at what Jennifer Way and I had to say about online job search.

It was an honor to participate in this event “LinkedIn and Your Career” last month at Belmont University where the interview, and panel presentation took place.

Chin up Job Seekers, there’s hope and opportunity on Twitter. The gist of my message is to find the company on Twitter, begin my curating their Tweets, join the conversation, engage, and move the conversation to a phone, or face to face meeting. You’ll from a woman who did just that.

Take care until next time.

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Job Search Satisfaction Survey

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HireFriday is conducting a satisfaction survey to measure your candidate experience.  Our community launched two years ago, and in that time I’ve heard your stories, conducted research, and I understand how you feel.  Here’s your chance to sound off.  I emailed a survey to members of The HireFriday Mailing list on http://HireFriday.com.  I’ll post the survey to social networks, so that you’ll get a chance to participate.  A lucky winner will receive a $25.00 gift card to Amazon.com.   My questions aren’t as leading as the ones listed below, but since I started #HFChat on Twitter, we’ve discussed this at length.  I understand your pain and frustration.  It is my goal to improve the job search experience for members of The HireFriday Community.  You deserve to be treated well when you apply for a job.  You deserve to hear back whether you were selected for an interview or not.  You deserve an application experience free of technical headaches.  I want to see to it that you get it.

When you get your survey, please fill it out.  I’m going to attach a link here in case you don’t get our email.  It’ll only take a few minutes, and it would really help us out.

Have you ever felt like pulling your hair out after spending an hour trying to fill out an online job application? I know I have.

Have you ever felt discouraged that you never heard back from a company, or recruiter after submitting an application?  We all have.

Have you ever been booted out of an online application because you missed a question?  Did the system lose your data, and you had to input it all over again?  How much time do you spend filling out an online job application?

My survey is far more objective than the rant above.  I think you get my point.  Let’s unite and make sure we get better treatment. “>Click here and tell us what you think.

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Facebook is inching into job posting territory with its new job-building partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor.   My research indicates that friends help friends find jobs.  Therefore, Facebook is a natural extension of the career branding process.    Job seekers are consistently looking for new and effective ways to leverage social networks to find work.  Yesterday, I interviewed Anthony Morrison, the Vice President of Cachinko.  Cachinko is similar to Monster’s BeKnown, and Branch Out.  The Facebook mobile job search apps add a whole new level to the job hunt process.   Even before Facebooks starts their version of a job board, mobile Facebook apps have been sweeping the nation.  Branch Out has 4.3 million users.  In the next 12 months, I predict a surge in Facebook, mobile apps will work their way into the social network fabric.   This is an exciting development.  It makes the job search process more active because instead of the old fashion spray & pray approach, this allows the job seeker to identify who in their network can connect them to people inside the companies where they applied.   It’s the best way to keep your resume out of the bottomless pit of an clunky applicant tracking system.  In fact, I’d venture to say that it’s the only want to be sure you will be seen by a recruiter, or decision maker.  Who wants to disappear in the lost and found?  Nobody.  Watch this trend.  Let’s revisit this in a year and evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook’s job posting venture.  Considering the fact that Facebook is approaching 1 BILLION users, coupled with the fact that millions of people update their statuses more than once a day, indeed,  Facebook should not be discounted, or ignored.     Use all the tools available.  Diversify your job search.  Discover which platform your hiring managers spend time.  Identify peak user hours.  Post during peak hours.  Build those relationships and you will go far.  The kicker is this, don’t exhaust yourself.  Job search fatigue will slow you down.  Pick a platform, and run with it.          
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Originally posted on Bachelor Degrees Online: Twitter is like a window into the soul of America.   This comprehensive list is a great starting point for people who want to venture into the Twitter job search world.  I would add #HireFriday  and #HFChat of course.  Our Twitter chat is loaded with recruiters, hiring managers, career professionals, and people who want to see you get ahead.   In addition, #TChat #JobHuntChat #GenY #GenYchat #BlogChat #BlogHer #UsGuys are great places to get help, advice, and of course get found.   The key is branding yourself.  Let people know how you can be found.     Ask good questions.   Provide good content.   Give good advice   This will help you stand out in the crowd.   Happy job hunting, and we’ll see you Friday for #HFChat.  This Friday, the folks from The Chicago Tribune are hosting.   Don’t Miss it!
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I’ve written extensively about this topic.  I’m reviewing these tools in my upcoming book, HireFriday 3.0.   The fact is this: infograpic resumes aren’t just for artists, photographers, and musicans anymore.   Resume templates, and infographic resume formats are not new.  What is new is that some of the services can now take your LinkedIn Profile and turn it into an infographic in one fell swoop.     It makes sense to check these services out.  If you can leverage all of your social networks to jump start your job search, you absolutely should.   I’ve tested vizualize.me,  re.vu, Kinzaa, Visualize.ly. Some of these tools are simple to use.  Some are difficult if you don’t write code.   See my previous post about this.  I recently interviewed the founder of re.vu.  Stay tuned.  In the meantime, subscribe to the HireFriday Daily, this blog, and stay up to date on the latest career search technology.   Your career search pal,   Margo Rose @HRMargo http://linkedin.com/in/margorose

Last Friday, we discussed info graphic resumes, branding yourself, and breaking into the marketing/advertising business.  Our guest host, Kevin Dugan, Marketing Director of Empower Media shed light on this trend.  Just yesterday, I saw an info graphic resume template that would be perfect for someone in the financial services industry.  Yes, conservative professionals can use these tools too.  Get your resume posted in a cloud.  Drive traffic to your resume.  Distribute it on all of your social networks, and package yourself like the best product on the shelf.  Yesterday, I interviewed Kyle Lacy, co-author of Branding Yourself, and Twitter Marketing For Dummies.  He and Erik Deckers are leading authorities on the subject.  I highly recommend their books.  Click here for more information. You don’t have to be a Dummy to love these book and tools

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