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Unemployment is hard. HireFriday can help. I will help you survive the holiday unemployment jitters. Call me 513-509-7762

Here’s the questions we will discuss today during #HFChat on Twitter Noon est, 11 a.m. central, and 9 a.m. pacific time.  Just follow the hash tag #HFChat (is short for HireFriday).  HFChat will discuss survival tips for how to cope after Thanksgiving with the prospect of job seeking, and the expiration of unemployment benefits.  HireFriday is the only stream on Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin that focuses solely on job seekers.  We do this by tweeting our name, title, location, industry, and a link to our linkedin profile, visual cv, or resume. We amplify our peer’s searches by retweeting their credentials into the Twitter stream. We share the credentials of  unemployed people seeking a new job on facebook & linkedin. We work tirelessly to help unemployed people find jobs.  We open our networks, make introductions, provide resources, tools, education, and support.  Tomorrow’s HFChat will provide tools, tips, skills, knowledge, and strength, and the fortitude to survive unemployment.  Some job seekers are on top of their A-Game.  Some job seekers are frightened, depressed and lonely.  Some job seekers don’t know what they are going to do when their unemployment benefits run out.  HireFriday, and HFChat is here to support you by giving real-time support, and professional skills that will help you land the job of your dreams.  Here’s the questions we will consider:

Q1: From the smallest kindness, to the biggest ticket item, share your ideas for holiday gifts for #jobseekers.

Q2: Brainstorm: What opportunities for networking do the holidays present?

Q3: How can a #jobseeker best prepare for holiday networking opportunites?

Q4: How do you overcome the anxiety, blues, over scheduling & other stresses that come along w/the wonders of the holidays?

Q5:What questions do you have about your #jobsearch and the holidays?

Please visit our site where you can get access to our transcript.  The HFChat transcript will be available by 2 p.m. Friday.  Please feel free to get linkedin with me Margo Rose.  I accept invitations from everyone in the HireFriday community.  I care a lot about you, today and every day.  If you need comfort or support during the holidays, email you telephone number to HRMargoRocks@gmail.com.  I will schedule a time that we can speak.

Transcript

If you want a transcript of the chat, come back any time after 2pm US ET today. I will run the transcript and post a link right HERE.

#HFChat Team  Founder & CEO Margo Rose, get linkedin with me here:

Hire Friday Founder and #HFChat Moderator: Tweet me here Margo Rose.

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Co-Moderators: Tom Bolt and Donna Svei.

HireFriday facilitator & Herder of Career Cats: Joanna Wolfe.

Blogging

Bloggers, please feel free to blog about ideas from #HFChat. Kindly provide attribution for any tweets quoted and a nod to #HFChat and each member of the #HFChat Team in your post. Thank you for extending the conversation!

My deepest, and most sincere thanks goes to Donna @AvidCareerist for developing this week’s questions, and for her willingness to pitch in as a meaningful contributor.

Margo Rose, Founder & CEO of HireFriday and the brand new website http://hirefriday.com launching in 2011. Call me to schedule an appointment 513-509-7762

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Margo Rose's HireFriday 2.0: A Boots On The Ground Approach To Your Online Job Search (Service Mark, Copy Right 2010)

Since I wrote the first Guidelines For HireFriday in May of this year, our community has grown exponentially.  As an omnipresent social media community, or more accurately, cluster of online communities; we have learned new lessons about how to grow, and incorporate best practices that will benefit: the job seeker, the recruiting community, the job board community, the executive coaching community, the resume writer community, the human resources community, and the business community at large.   HireFriday is going viral, and as we grow, we want to maintain the interactive, interpersonal communication that makes it one of the most unique new media communities in the digital space. I make it a point to interact with every single person in our community. It is the 1:1 that makes this so rewarding for me.

Social Media doesn’t describe what HireFriday is, or what it has become.  We are a social media community, we also have a cluster of new media communities popping up on blogs around the world.  HireFriday launched in France last Friday.  Each Country that replicates our model is adding its own international twist.  We have a facebook page, and a new facebook group which I am limiting in size in order to provide one to one attention with each of its participants.  My professional goal for HireFriday is NOT to grow large, but to grow smart, slow, and steady. Because this is my passionate quest, I do not want to lose the personal touch I give each person in our community.

In order to avoid brand confusion, and chaos I have chosen keep the spot light where it belongs: on the job hunter, the job search evangelist, the unemployed person, the passive candidate who wants to go public, but not quite ready.  Bottom line, what makes HireFriday important is its focus solely on the job seeker.  Unemployment is hard.  HireFriday can help.  What we as a community do is lend a hand, and encourage a heart. Lou Bonica put it well when he said, “HireFriday reminds the job seeker that they are not alone, or forgotten.”

Twitter does not need another job board which is why, for the time being, we will not adopt HireFridayJobs, as suggested on a blogtalkradio show I appeared on this week.  That would adversely affect my business model, and my business partners who make their living as twitter job search engines.  Monster.com was the first adopter of HireFriday.  TweetMyJOBS also incorporates @tweetmyresumes is a dynamic, and high quality resource. I formed a strategic partnership with Gary Zukowski. Gary is the heart and soul of the twitter job space. I met Gary at the ERE Conference in March. I had him on my show, and was favorably impressed. He reached out to me, and offered incredible ideas, and advice. We hit it off, the rest is history. Please follow @tweetmyresume. Recently, I connected with @Workway. I suggest you follow them, and follow their leader @WhatsWithDiane. They reached out to me, and I’m excited they wrote such a nice blogpost about HireFriday.

As you know, jobseekers can create a Public Profile on TweetMyJOBS.com, and there’s a button they can click to tweet their resume.  As I consider the gigantic job boards, and the small Mom & Pop job boards, I realized in short order, I don’t want to compete or play in that space because I am a CANDIDATE ADVOCATE. HireFriday is growing in leaps and bounds. It needs a full-time community manager, and I have promoted myself into the job.

HireFriday is growing, and I’m growing with it. It’s time to explore what the buddhists call “right livelihood.” It blends my vision for Compassionate HR with HireFriday Community Management. It’s time to monetize this venture in a way that maintains the ethics, integrity, dignity, and respect of each person in the stream. I want your input about how I can do this in a way that provides value to you.

In addition, I am a dot connector.  I connect the dots, make matches, and connections with people across, throughout and around networks.  For years I’ve been saying, ” you are either networking or not-working.”  In essence, we are all on different trajectories in our careers.  This further explains my intense passion for shining light on job seekers, and keeping the HireFriday stream on twitter exclusively for JOB SEEKERS, and UNEMPLOYED people.  Yes, I’m capitalizing those words, because I want to emphasize how profoundly important job seekers are to me, my heart, my mission and my vision for what HireFriday was intended to do from its inception.  

Guess what, I’m not selling out to outside interests.  I carefully pick and choose ethical, dignified, authentic, and respectful partners in the recruiting community.  The ethical, compassionate recruiters have profound reach and resonance, and can be uniquely helpful to our community. I want to make an honest living, and work only with people who are doing the same.

This week I announced a new partnership with Paul Paris (also known as @Paris22) he’s affectionately referred to as The Ex Recruiter.  I am encouraging my community to be as omnipresent as I am.  Participate in Paul’s Employment Cafe.  Participate in #WorkWednesday. Be present in #JobAngels. Watch the #Jobs & #Career Stream, and as I frequently say, “Job Seekers: Think Like A Recruiter.” Before I share too much, let me just say that some very exciting services are about to be offered with the two of us coming together. Now, what you’ve been waiting for my top 5 tips for getting the most out of HireFriday this week.

Here are my top 5 tips for getting the most out of this week’s HireFriday on Twitter:

1. Use your real name in your tweet. It will make it easier for recruiters, hiring managers, human resource directors to find you.  HireFriday is a brilliant inbound marketing experience. Use it, and make it work.
2. If you choose to tweet through tweetmyresumes, do you buzz, or another service, put your name first, followed by an industry recognized job title that will tickle the search engines, and candidate sourcers radar.  They are watching you. The world is watching this human community experience. This is your chance to shine.  Do the research.  Go to google and find out what those job titles actually are, how they are indexed, and how they are written in the applicant tracking systems.  Research the job boards.  What do they call your job title?  Is it what you think it is, or is it called something else? Is your job industry specific? Or do you care about which industry you are in now? Figure it out before Friday.  Do not think outside the box.  Rather, get inside it.  Squeeze in tight and niche yourself.   Even if you are a generalist, you best make sure you are stripping out key words so people will find you.
3. Location, location, location.  Is it important? If it is, say so, if it is not, say so-clearly, so that people can identify whether you are a realistic candidate for the position.
4. Industry: if you are a java developer (consider yourself the unicorn) everyone the world is looking for you.  I’m not entirely kidding.  If you are in Information Technology hash tag #IT #Java #C++.  If you are in #HR hashtag #HR #EmployeeRelations #Benefits #Compensation #SPHR #PHR #Training #LeadershipDevelopment #StrategicPlanning you get my drift.  If you are an #OrganizationDevelopment Specialist hash tag #OD #Organization #Assessments #Diagnostics #MBTI #DiSC #OrGCulture or whatever aspect of OD you excel.  In future workshops, I will teach you how to research and break down the components of your job so you can hash tag them appropriately.
5. Create a bit.ly link (or another link shortener if you wish) to your resume or linkedinprofile.  My personal preference is a link to the linkedin profile because it does two things. 1) It builds your network and your professional brand, and 2) if your linkedin profile is well written, it can be even better than your online resume for lots of reasons (I’ll discuss this in future posts).

The volunteer job seeker evangelists make HireFriday the special community it is. If I left out your name, please don’t be offended. Instead will you please leave a comment.

My faithful readers know how much I love a theme song. Today’s theme is hand picked for my job seeker community. I’ve Got A Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas. I’ve Got A Feeling That HireFriday is going to be a good day, HireFriday is going to be a good, good day, that today is going to good day. (My Personal Ring Tone 2009)

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Margo Rose, Chief Social Strategist Says: Unemployment is Hard. HireFriday Boot Camp Can Help

HireFriday Boot Camp will give your job search the boost it needs.  This boots on the ground approach to job seeking will teach you everything you need to know about tapping into social networks to accelerate your re-employment.  My first workshop will be August 20th 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.  The cost is only $99.00.  In addition to learning how to harness the power of #HireFriday on twitter, facebook, and linkedin you will learn tried and true social learning techniques to tap into the social media job search universe.

HireFriday Boot Camp Workshops and Coaching Now Available by Margo Rose

Learning Objectives: By The End Of This Workshop You Will Know How To:

• Make the most of HireFriday through strategic networking with Margo’s social networks: The primary focus of today’s workshop will be on twitter for job search.
• Pro-active approach to job search strategy
• Think like a recruiter: learn competitive intelligence strategies to do targeted company searches
• Know how to uncover social media job resources, and to determine how much time to spend on each platform
• You will leave with a sound social media job search plan for how to land your next job
• Learn the components of an effective linkedin, facebook, twitter, google & yahoo profile, and how to embed search engine key words to make sure you are found!
• You will leave with the confidence to be viable candidate

Materials include:  a step by step handout that list all the strategies covered in the day’s workshop, and a list of reputable recruiters in Margo Rose’s network divided into industry, and job type areas.

During this introductory overview, we will take part in #HireFriday, and learn the ins-and-outs of navigating your way through the clutter in the social network channels.

Future HireFriday Boot Camps:

• Linkedin 4 Job Seekers:  By the end of this workshop you will have a linkedin profile that will help you land your job
• On-line resume development for social media channels
• Social Media Relationship Building: Strategic Networking
• HireFriday Self Discovery:  A self-assessment workshop to help you discover what you want to do next.  You will learn how to discover, uncover, and land the job of your dreams!

Individual HireFriday Boot Camp Coaching Sessions are available.  Because unemployment creates hardship, Margo sees clients on a sliding scale based on what an individual can afford.  Margo will be offering webinars in the future, so stay tuned.  For more information call me 513-509-7762 or email me at hrsocialstrategy@gmail.com.

For those of you who regularly read my blog, you know how much I love theme songs.  So today I selected: “Don’t Worry Be Happy.”

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What is a Career Anchor, and how will it guide your job search? Unemployment can be devastating. It can also be an extraordinary journey that can lead you to you to your innermost self. Being unemployed offers the opportunity to discover, and uncover what it is you truly want to do. To do what you are, not what you know how to do, can lead to personal transformation.

When I was in graduate school studying organization development, I was introduced to the work of OD leader, Edgar Schein.

According to his website: “Edgar Schein of MIT has identified eight themes and has shown that people will have prioritized preferences for these. For example a person with a primary theme of Security/Stability will seek secure and stable employment over, say, employment that is challenging and riskier. People tend to stay anchored in one area and their career will echo this in many ways. ” (The link provided annotates Schein’s scholarly work)

What does understanding organization behavior, culture and change have to do with your job search? I contend that when a recruiter’s placements fail, it is in some measure because of a lack of due diligence to match the candidate to the culture. Conversely, job seekers don’t connect the dots to honestly assess whether or not the culture of the company with which they are interviewing is a match with their work style, personality type, values, and personal culture. Culture is the hidden ingredient to a successful transition.

First, you have to know yourself. Find an anchor, and do competitive analysis to determine if the organization is a fit. Too often, job hunters focus on skill sets, faulty job descriptions, vague explanations spoon fed to them by hiring managers and recruiters. (Please don’t cane me fellow recruiters-I know the good ones make efficacious assessments-and make informed decisions based on the available data).

This brings me to my next question, what do you do when the company with whom you are interviewing isn’t giving you a complete picture. Face it, some hiring managers don’t understand the question, “describe your organization culture.”

Now, the ball is in your court. I suggest you read more about Schein’s Career Anchor tool. It’s brilliant, and will provide you with insights you would not otherwise glean from your MBTI or DiSC profile. The Strongs Interest Inventory is too general in many cases. FiroB is not easy to understand without a trained facilitator. SHL’s Occupational Personality Profile is impossible to understand without a thorough WPS work place profiling system’s skill-based job profile.

An excellent career coach can take you through the Career Anchors Inventory, s/he can help deepen your knowledge and understanding of culture.

@HRMargo

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