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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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Hello Community:

In the spirit of HireFriday, I’d like to invite you to work with me. As a social media strategist and community engagement officer, I am constantly sweeping the landscape to find innovative ways to engage an audience, energize a community, and convert followers and fans into brand zealots. I’ve earned the reputation as a social media machine. I’m obsessed with how digital media communities are born, grow, and go viral. I transform small grassroots communities into digital media movements that span the web. As the Founder of the world-wide movement, #HireFriday, and #HFChat (one of Twitter’s first career chats), I’d like to articulate my value proposition to you as a community member, or as a prospective client, or employer. I’ve attached samples of my work below. Please pay attention to my resume. It’s chocked full of useful information about how I can help your organization make money, save time, and reduce waste. I’m open to your comments and feedback, so please feel free to comment below. Thanks HireFriday, HFChat, and HRMargo community!

Margo Rose, Social Media Community Strategist. Founder Of The HireFriday Community and The Go-To Career Chat On Twitter-#HFChat

Here’s the link to my presentation that I delivered during Brazen Careerist’s Social Media Bootcamp. My presentation focused on how to source, and engage top talent using Twitter. My panel facilitated by Nando Rodriguez, and Jennifer Hasche from Intuit delivered her presentation focused on recruiting on Facebook.

Would you like to work with me? Let’s connect. Call me this week at the number listed in the above (513) 549-3025.

I look forward to speaking to you.

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Ray Anne Thorn

Mobile Apps have forever changed how career seekers approach employment. Recruiters have adopted mobile technology for location based recruiting. Companies are latching on to mobile as a way to improve their employer brand and position themselves as an employer of choice. Some leaders suggest that if you don’t have a mobile strategy in place by 2013 you risk losing market share and a golden opportunity. Mobile, I’d like to think I’m smarter than my iPhone, but mobile apps keep getting smarter and smarter. Who could possibly be smarter than software? This past fall, I attended a webinar about mobile technology and recruiting. One of the co-leaders happened to be one of my favorite professionals, Ray Anne Thorne.

Ray Anne is our guest host this week on HFChat. Every Friday, HireFriday’s weekly Twitter chat features topics that transform careers and uplifts job seekers. Today, Ray Anne is addressing the core issue: how will mobile technology change the way we look for jobs? Mobile recruiting is quickly becoming an alternative to email. Some people would rather check their mobile device than invest the time to fill out an online job application. Recruiters don’t have time to wade through endless emails. It’s a big win for recruiters and career minded people alike. Mobile technology is social. It is easy to use. People are using it to scan websites, so it’s logical that it would have a substantial impact on the way we look for jobs, and the way recruiters look for us. Take a look at this week’s topic and questions:

Q1. Why should job seekers look to mobile technology?
Q2. Do you expect location-based technologies to have any part in mobile job search?
Q3. In job search, what is more important – an updated resume or online profile?
Q4. Do you have any job search/job board apps downloaded? Are you using them?
Q5. QR Codes, RFID, NFC, Texting, and Apps keep updating, can jobseekers keep up?

Rayanne Thorn is the Marketing Director for Broadbean Technology in Newport Beach, CA, a recruiting software company launched in London in 2001. Her specialties include recruiting, writing, and social marketing. Like the proverbial moth to the flame, she has been drawn to the world of online communications because its impact and resultant changes are undeniable. She describes social media as the New Front Porch, the place where we meet and greet, gossip and unwind, listen and speak, learn, and change. Life in business is continuously altered because disruptive technology companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn refuse to stand still. She has presented her interesting take on social media in places as far away as London and Toronto and as close as her neighborhood chamber of commerce. When Rayanne isn’t talking about social media or mobile, she is usually writing about it. She is an avid writer about her brushes with humanity and technology and how they always seem to intersect. Since February of 2009, she has been writing Bonus Track, a featured daily post on RecruitingBlogs.com for two and a half years and now a partner at Blogging4Jobs.com. She is often a guest blogger in and outside of her industry.

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Amanda Hite, Founder of Talent Revolution, Change Agent, and Social Media Strategist is on a mission. She’s made a pledge, and she wants us to join her.

PLEDGE WITH US:

“I believe that no child in America should go hungry. By pledging today, I add my voice to the national movement of people committed to ending childhood hunger in America by 2015.”
http://nokidhungry.org/

She challenges us to do what Mahatma Ghandi suggests, “Become the change you want to see in the world.” Her #BeTheChange movement has gone viral around the web.

Hite is a SexyThinker, which is how she is known as on Twitter. I had the pleasure of meeting her in 2009 at the first HRevolution unconfernce. She wowed us then, and she wows us now. She’s learned how to make brand evangelism fun, and profitable for organizations. She ties it all together with a feel good message. Amanda and her team create social media campaigns that empower employees to be brand agents, and created an accountability element.

Doing good equals doing well. Doing good deeds can be woven into an organization’s corporate communication strategy. Employees engaged in philanthropic activities have higher productivity, lower rates of absenteeism, work more effectively on teams. According to my research, organizations that engage their employees, and empower then to have time off to participate in a charitable activity as a team have higher employee employee retention rates which decreases the cost of hire. Employee attrition is expensive to an organization. Service learning, strategic philanthropy, and corporate responsibility also increases brand awareness, engages customers, and can help make a social media campaign go viral.

We know that compassionate human resources feels good, random acts of kindness feels even better. Amanda Hite supported the concept behind “Random Packs of Kindness.” Cinnabon is a compassionate company. Check out this video, Random Packs Of Kindnes:

She showed a an organization “Lastin” how to create a tweet hub. Check this out:

It’s brilliant. Create a contest to audition your internal brand agents, show them how to generate buzz on Twitter, and then turn them loose to convert their followers into brand agents too.

http://lastin.thetweethub.com/index.php

If that isn’t cool enough…Amanda challenged her Twitter followers and friends to raise 5,000 in one day, and if she did, she’d dress up like Barbie, and surprise us all. No doubt Hite’s got the moves like Jaggar. If this doesn’t make you laugh, and jump for joy nothing will. Fact is, she’s pretty hot in a shocking pink mini…and can dance better than most people I know. Here’s how she set it up on YouTube:

“The deal was you raise $5,000 on Twitter in 1 Day for #ServeHope (Global Hope Network and Share Our Strength) and I do a video blog in a pink dress!”

Now you know why I simply had to interview her on Compassionate HR. The BlogrtalkRadio Show can be heard right here. Just click on the tab, Compassionate HR at the top of the screen.

Amanda Hite can be reached here:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/sexythinker
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/amandahite
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AmandaEHite
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ahite14?feature=mhee

Be The Change Influencers: http://bethechangeinfluencers.com/
Changers of Commerce: http://changersofcommerce.com/
Talent Revolution: http://www.talentrevolution.net/
Blog: http://sexythinker.wordpress.com/

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Mashable’s weekly feature showcases some of the top comments from our community members. I am both humbled, and honored to make it on “The Top 8 Comments Of The Week”
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