HFChat

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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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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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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