Posts Tagged ‘HR Margo’

Unemployment is hard. HireFriday can help. Don't miss the Mega-Chat December 6, 2010 from 8-10 p.m. eastern standard time. Just follow the hashtag #MegaJobHuntChat

What are you doing this coming Monday, December 6 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. eastern standard time?  Have I got a Twitter event for you. The Twitter chat I founded #HFChat will be live from 9:10 – 9:30 p.m. eastern standard time.  The entire HireFriday community is welcome.  The questions that we will present and discuss will be compelling, interesting, and will surely make you think!  As always #HFChat on Twitter provides invaluable tools that help move your career forward.   #HFChat takes place every Friday, Noon-1 p.m. eastern standard time.  We are so excited to be a part of this mega-chat.  We certainly hope that you will join in the fun, meet new people from other career related chats, and expand your contact network.

The MegaJobHuntChat is the Twitter Event of The Season.  Six Twitter chats will participate! This is important because the chat I founded in 2010, #HFChat will collaborate with #JobHuntChat, #GenYChat, #CareerChat and #InternChat, and more.  Why is this special?  The community that encompasses job seekers, human resources, executive coaches, job boards, recruiters, and millenials will participate.  This is a tremendous opportunity to network, and learn valuable tips, tools, and the best demonstrated practices to move your career forward.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a job seeker, or employed in the job of your dreams, MegaJobHuntChat will bring the very best that Twitter Chats have to offer.  My colleagues from the other Twitter chats will present, and answer two questions.  The chat will be structured in such a way that everyone will have equal time to participate.  The questions that we will present will stimulated invigorating conversation.  The answers will be fodder for reflection, and learning.

It is my sincere hope that you will share your wisdom during our chat.  Regardless of your station in life, you have a unique resource to offer.  Never lose sight of the gifts that only you can share.  Remember, HireFriday Community, you are resource people, not job beggars.  You have skills, knowledge, and abilities.  Take stock of what you have to offer the business community, and jump into the chat.  December 6, 2010 will be a day that goes down in Twitter history.  It is the day that chats that span many disciplines will come together.  The questions will be posted today on Rich DI promise you, you won’t want to miss it.  Later this week, I will publish the questions that my #HFChat will present.  In the meantime, please mark your calendar so you won’t miss this amazing Twitter chat.

Sincerely,

Margo Rose, M.Ed., HRD

Founder & CEO of HireFriday

Founder of #HFChat

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HireFriday: One Tribe-One Community Supporting & Helping One Another

That’s right, Monday, August 30th marks the first ever HireFriday show on Compassionate HR (my blogtalkradio show.) It brings me great pride to bring you the HireFriday Community members that make our space such a special place to be. In addition, The HireFriday All-Stars Show brings its with the best career development professionals in the business. People like Chandlee Bryan, author of The Twitter Job Search Guide will be one of our all-star panelists. I am hoping to convince Julie Walraven, Karen Siwak, Janice Worthington and other great resume writers to appear. Shally from Arbita will make an appearance. He’s the God Father of Candidate Sourcing. He is pointed to as the man who made internet research for candidate sourcing a valid, and respectable career.

I’ve invited the entire job search community to participate in tomorrow’s show. It will be fun to see who shows up. One never knows what will happen on blogtalkradio, and that’s part of the excitement. I’ve invited the best and brightest career coaches to call in our show. It will be a HireFriday job search free for all. We will stray from the Compassionate HR interview format in order to accommodate as many callers who want to speak

All the phone lines will be open, so anyone wants to call in to make a job search comment, ask a question about how to cope with unemployment, deal with limited resources, you are all welcome to pipe in–this show will provide useful ideas and tools for the taking. You will get so much free advice you’ll want to down load the episode free on I-Tunes so that you may listen to it again, and again. My hope is people will have a safe place to ask questions and discuss the ups and downs of the job search process. Unemployment is hard. HireFriday can help.

I kid around about being a fierce candidate advocate, and opened up the twitter profile for my alter-ego “GangstaHR.” She’s a kick-ass, take no prisoners, boots on the ground problem solver and candidate advocates. She vigorously debates people who pick on job seekers, and sometimes offends. Like me, my other persona has a heart of gold. GangstaHR gives me a chance to freely express my first amendment rights as an opinionated big-mouth who is fearless when it comes to defending job seekers, and their rights.

HRMargo, however is far more interested in providing useful information, job search strategy, and boot camp workshops to teach unemployed people how to find work using online resources. HireFriday and Compassionate HR are not just careers of mine, they are a way of life, and my way of serving my community. It’s my passion to be a candidate advocate. I care deeply about the plight of unemployed people. I will one day start a not for profit organization to serve guide women coming out of battered Women’s Shelters how to re-enter the workforce. I will serve disadvantaged populations, and teach them job readiness skills so that they too can re-join the workforce. While this is in the future, this is my ultimate vision.

In the meantime, I will offer job search strategy coaching, workshops, e-books, and useful tools to accelerate your re-mployment. Please tune in Monday evening. I secured a toll free number for job seekers 877-230-4601. Our listener call in line is 347-426-3215. You may also listen to the HireFriday All Stars show by pointing your browser to http://blogtalkradio.com/comphr. Thank you friends.

Your theme song today is by the Black Eyed Peas: One Tribe because The HireFriday Community I started back in February is truly one tribe y’all.

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What are the top 5 mistakes job seekers make when using Linkedin?

Mistakes, we all make them. What really counts is the correcting mistakes, and moving forward. As a job search strategist, and candidate advocate, it is my job to help job seekers put their best foot forward. Linkedin is one of the best places for job seekers to market themselves. Are you standing out as the go-to expert in your industry on linkedin? It’s Brand You. You are the brand, the human product of intellectual capital. You are the reason recruiters and hiring managers want to recruit you. The question becomes: How well are you managing your online brand. How well are you selling yourself? Are you on-message? Are you marketing yourself in a way that makes you stand out, or are you getting lost in the online clutter? What happens to your resume when it goes into a company’s applicant tracking system?

The problem is so many job seekers don’t know how to promote their brand on linkedin (and other online employment networks). Instead of “suggestions,” I’m prioritizing the top 5 mistakes job seekers make when using linkedin.

1. A picture says a thousand words.  If your picture is out of focus, or unprofessional, your profile won’t get a second look.
2. Job seekers leave out industry related key words. If your profile doesn’t include key words that recruiters and hiring managers are looking for, you will not be found.  Often, they use web crawlers, and search engines to do their bidding.  If your linkedin profiled is not search engine optimized, you will not be found.
3. Job seekers don’t participate in industry related groups. If you don’t ask and answer questions, you will not be acknowledged. The point is to position yourself as a thought leader, and an expert.  Participating in linkedin groups enable you to do just that.
4. Job seekers don’t personalize their linkedin contact invitations. Now, you must know that some people on linkedin think that’s downright unprofessional, or worse, creepy.  Always personalize your invitation to make contact.  Make sure you are polite, and show that person relevance, and the value of why you should share your network.
5. Job seekers don’t proof their profile.  It’s easy to get a friend, or colleague to review your profile.  If you haven’t done so, do it now.  If your profile isn’t well written that is a bad reflection on you, and your professionalism.  People want to hire people they like, and trust.  A flawless linkedin profile will either help you get an interview, or make you land in the circular file (trash can).  Don’t be a trash can statistic.  Polish your profile, and enlist  your friends to help you.

HireFriday is filled with people who want to help you. Tap into our resources, and remember tomorrow is HireFriday.  It’s your day to shine, because all of my volunteers will put you in the spot light.  I will personally RT your credentials to all of my contacts–but–if your profile is not credible, I won’t.  If you need help, feel free to email me, or dm one of our HireFriday community volunteers. Tomorrow from 12-1 p.m. est.Josh LeTourneau and I will lead another HireFriday Chat on twitter.  Just follow the stream, and ask your questions.

Your HireFriday Community Manager

HR Margo Rose

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Margo Rose, Chief Social Strategist Says: Don't Be a Facebook Friend Horder

Are you a facebook friend horder?  Admit it, you’re on either facebook, twitter, linkedin, myspace, brazen careers, or talent revolution.  There are too many social online communities to count.   They are all great communities.  Depending on your age, professional interests, or hobbies, online communities can fun.  Some online communities nurture our professional development, some enhance our personal lives, and some even bolster our spiritual growth.  Yet, the question begs to be asked: How many of your contacts do you know?   Are you leveraging the relationships you develop online to develop new business, to make new friends, or to learn new things?

I’m an extrovert, a social butterfly, and making new friends comes easy to me.  However, now I’m looking at my 1,106 facebook friends, 648 linkedin contacts, and 3,216 twitter followers.  Reflectively, I’m asking myself: how many of these people do I know?  How many of these people do I want to know?  Who among these people might be potential clients?  There was a time when I could honestly say that I know all of my facebook friends, twitter followers, and linkedin contacts.

Today, that is not the case.  However, I can say that all of my contacts are important to me.  I bring up this point today to challenge all of us to get to know each of our contacts, or at the very least determine which of these contacts might be a via business contact.  You never know who might be your next client, or employer for that matter.  I write about job search for my HireFriday community.  I tell my job seekers to get to know your contacts.  Your facebook friends should be your first line referral base.  If you are on linkedin, you ought to be using these contacts to get to know potential employers.  If you are on twitter, follow the people in your industry.  Get to know the thought leaders.  Tweet to them.  The bottom line readers is that we must engage.

If we don’t engage our friends and followers, why have them?  Building relationships is the most important thing we can do in this life time.  It is from these relationships that we learn, prosper, and grow.  Whether you are a job seeker, a business person, or a hobbyist…learn get to know your friends.  Divide them into interest groups.  Build your data base so that when you need expertise in any given area you know where to look.  My message is simply this…don’t be a facebook friend horder.  Having an anonymous group of contacts is meaningless unless you are doing something to nurture your online communities.

I end each post with a theme song, because I’m a theme song kind of girl.  Today, I give you Connie, “Anytime You Need A Friend.” And remember, I am here for you.

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Unemployment is Hard. HireFriday Is Here To Help

NEWS FLASH:  Twitter Chat on #HireFriday Noon–this is your opportunity to be a part of twitter’s fastest growing online job search international community!  Remember, the hashtag #HireFriday–It’s so much more meaningful than #FollowFriday.  Help yourself, your friends, and your family members find jobs.  By now recruiters, hiring managers, and human resource professionals are watching the #HireFriday twitter stream like a hawk. Why? because it’s a people stream, not a job stream.  We help real people looking for real jobs.  We found an innovative and dynamic way to help.  In addition to HireFriday on facebook, linkedin, and twitter, we will soon have a HireFriday website chocked full of resources, and services at your disposal.    Here’s the deets:

Follow the #HireFriday Twitter Chat with Margo Rose and Josh LeTourneau Noon-1 EST 9-10 PST  Everyone’s a recruiter on HireFriday.  Each of us is a job search evangelist, and through positive thinking, we can dynamically shift our attitude, and improve our search.  As the Community Manager of HireFriday, I want to remind everyone to help everyone else.  That’s how this works.  Each of you can be a HireFriday community evangelist.  It’s a great volunteer experience before you land your next job.  You’ll have the good feeling of know that while helping yourself get found by hiring managers, recruiters and HR professionals, you have the satisfaction of knowing you helped another job seeker in the twitter stream.  It’s pay it forward, magnified by the multitude of retweeting each other, supporting each other, and encouraging one another to go on, when you just don’t feel like it anymore.

HireFriday an Online Community That Connects Job Seekers With Opportunities

Here’s the deets on the #HireFriday twitter chat discussion.  If you are new to our community, tweet your @name/location/industry/link to linkedin profile or resume.  Between 12-1 est 9-10 pacific Josh and I will answer your questions.  You will get Josh’s perspective as a masterful recruiter, blogger and candidate sourcer.  You will receive my perspective as a career development expert with experience in outplacement.  We will structure our discussion around the following 3 questions:

Our first question:

1) Where are you getting stuck in your job search?

2) How are you packaging yourself and your candidate brand?

3) How can you work more effectively with recruiters.

Please spread the word, and remember: everyone’s a recruiter on HireFriday. HireFriday is about everybody helping everyone else. Be job search evangelists for one another. RT your community members.  Unemployment is hard: HireFriday is here to help!

You know I love theme songs so the theme song for #HireFriday, July 9 is “These Boots Are Made For Walking.”  Think of this song not as a somebody done somebody wrong song…think of it as your theme song to keep walking, and forge ahead resolutely.  Besides, I love Nancy Sinatra.  Yes, I’m that old.  So, I now give you the goddess of go-go boots, Nancy Sinatra:

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