job search strategy

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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John Sumser posted this today to his blog:  Recently, I had the opportunity to interview the founders of The Candidate Experience Awards, and learned how this is transforming into a movement to which businesses large, and small are not paying attention.  Check out my podcast ‘Compassionate HR,’ with Gerry Crispin, Elaine Orler, and Ed Newman at http://blogtalkradio.com/comphr   What Sumser describes below is extremely important.  The candidate experience requirements are often ignored by companies, and recruiters who post their job.  Some companies think that people magically appear, as if opening a box of Lucky Charms, with the expectation that the perfect candidate is going to jump out of the box into their laps.   This isn’t how it happens, arguably as the recession subsides, and candidates are less desperate for work, they will be more discerning where they apply, and why.  Furthermore, they will remember how they were treated when they applied in the past.   In summary, check out The HRExaminer’s post today.  Comment, and let me know what you think!   I quote:   “Candidate Experience Requirements: The basic idea is that any person who visits an employment wbsite should be treated with respect, as a minimum, and delighted, as an objective.  The basic steps in the process are are delineated eloquently in today’s article.  I’d invite you to listen to my podcast with Gerry, Elaine, and Ed, as they are the founders of this movement, and this movement has teeth, and traction.  Now, take a moment to read John Sumser’s article, and leave me a comment.  I’d love your opinion.
Via www.hrexaminer.com

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It’s time to let go.  Let new.  Let the past stay in the past.  Move on, move through, and the only way out is through…so, in the words of my new favorite band SafetySuit: Let Go

Transition means saying good bye, saying hello, shaking hands, making decisions, and reaching out for new connections, contacts, engagement, and validation…it’s about engagement, goals, decision making, and even packing, and moving…it all requires one important thing and that’s the ability to let go.

Letting go of an old job, a relationship, or even a city where you used to live requires an innate ability to release the past, both good memories and bad. William Bridges, author of ‘You & Company,’ says every new beginning begins with a good ending. Sometimes we can’t change the way things ‘end,’ but we can reframe it in our minds so we can learn the necessary insights so that we actually can start anew.

It’s a new year. I didn’t write a ‘predictions’ or ‘best of’ posts. Instead, I want to focus on the most important thing, more important than resolutions, and it’s simply this: LET GO, so you can move forward. All those new year’s resolutions won’t amount to a hill of beans until you can effectively let go of the behavior that keeps you bound to the behavior you resolve to change.

It isn’t magic, it is hard, it requires support, inspiration, care, and even friendship at times…the bottom line is this…if you want to change, be sure you are ready to act on the changes you want to make. I say, it begins with letting go.

Are you ready?

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LinkedIn And You

LinkedIn, Your Job Search, and You!

Some people say LinkedIn is a glorified job board.  Some say it’s where salespeople connect.  LinkedIn wants you to think of their site as a business search engine.  Of course, it’s a place to advance your career, a hub for job posting, a mecca for recruiters, and candidate sourcers.  The bottom line is this:  How can you leverage LinkedIn to meet your specific needs.

First you have to answer a few questions:

1)   Why are you on LinkedIn?

2)   What are your career goals?

3)   What are your business goals?

4)   How can you develop a strategy and tactics to help you reach your goals.

Any good project begins with clear goals.  If you don’t know where you are going, how will you know when you get there?  All roads lead to nowhere.  So, know where you want to go.

Here’s some definite do’s to get your LinkedIn profile started:

1)   Make sure your profile is 100% complete

2)   Present a clear, professional picture

3)   Don’t use tired cliché’s and overused words

4)   Embed key words and phrases throughout your profile-this makes you findable

5)   Use the first person singular when creating in your introduction

6)   If you are an active job seeker, list it in your heading

7)   List the bullet points that precisely address the job you want

8)   Be honest-Make sure the dates on your LinkedIn profile match those on your resume

9)   Join groups, it’s a great place to hear about jobs, and connect with peers who can get you connected to people in their companies

10)                   Take advantage of the skills, and activities, again its one more place you can list the key words that will help you get found

11)                   Personalize each LinkedIn invite, it increases your chances of acceptance

12)                   Let the person know why you want to be connected and what’s in it for them

13)                   Don’t over email.  People consider it to be spam.  Pace yourself

14)                   Don’t update your status on LinkedIn more than once a day.

15)                   Gerry Crispin from Career XRoads recommends that you should only apply for jobs where you have a connection.  While this may seem impossible in some cases, it makes absolute perfect sense.  It might take a lot of research on your part, but when you apply for a job with a warm lead, the chances of you getting an interview increases exponentially.

Eric Jaquith, conference speaker, and nationally recognized recruiter thinks you should only update your status once a week.  The debate on that rages, but I say do it once a day because some people only check in on LinkedIn once a week.  If someone thinks you are updating too frequently, they can hide you from their stream.

I firmly believe the point of LinkedIn, or any social network for that matter is to meet people who can be helpful to your business, industry, or occupation,  connect with them, and then meet them.  Schedule a phone call, or a meeting.  Don’t be a connection hoarder.  Be generous with your information, and as Chris Brogan says, just be helpful.

Consider these best practices by Neal Schaeffer, author of Windmill Networking: Understanding, Leveraging, And Maximizing your Presence On LinkedIn.

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Be sure to catch the art of networking on HFChat on Twitter today at Noon Eastern, 11 Central.  Our host Steve Browne will share time-tested tips for strengthening your network!
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