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Set Up a Home Office for Your Job Search
Job searching is almost a full-time job, even with all the help you can get via social media. And if you were running a small business from your home or apartment, you’d need a home office. So why not [more…]
Acquire a Working PC and Internet Connection for Your Job Search
If you buy only one item to help you with your job search, especially if you're going to make use of social media, that item needs to be a computer or a [more…]
Gather Essentials for Job Searching via Social Media
After you have your computer and Internet situation figured out, you need to gather a few other essential pieces of the job-searching-with-social-media puzzle: an e-mail address, word-processing and spreadsheet [more…]
Invest in Business Cards while Job Searching via Social Media
If you plan on networking in person in addition to online, you’re going to need business cards. Business cards are an extension of your personal brand [more…]
How to Manage Your Job Search Time
You may have broken your goals down into the smallest chunks possible and gathered everything you may possibly need for your job search via social media, but if you don’t practice good time management, [more…]
JobKatch Helps Organize Your Job Search via Social Media
JobKatch offers job seekers a powerful way to stay organized during a job search. It has built-in integrations with LinkedIn so you can import contacts and then track your interactions with them for particular [more…]
How to Use Becomed, JibberJobber, and CareerShift in Your Job Search
Becomed, JibberJobber, and CareerShift are job-search organization tools that can help you as you search for a job via social media. Becomed bills itself as your job-search assistant. You can create specific [more…]
Stay Motivated throughout Your Job Search via Social Media
Motivation is the driving force that propels people toward a goal. And motivation during a job search, especially if you’re unemployed, can become a real challenge. Mounting bills, unanswered résumés and [more…]
Make Connections through In-Person and Online Networking
Most jobs, no matter whether you’re a senior executive or an entry-level worker, are a direct result of networking. Only about 3.5 percent of job postings ever make it to job boards. So guess how most [more…]
Avoid Online Networking Mistakes during Your Job Search
Online networking — that is, meeting and interacting with other professionals via the Internet — is a relatively new thing. If you think about it, people have had millions of years to figure out how to [more…]
How to Be an Outstanding Online Networker
You can do some powerful things to become an outstanding networker. In the end, you want your interactions with others online to grow your career and help you stand out from the crowd. Here are some pointers [more…]
How to Take Advantage of Your Connections’ Connections
The power of networking, on- or offline, during your job search isn’t simply who you know, but who the people you know know. A lot of opportunities come from those second- and even third-degree connections [more…]
Use the CRM System Gist to Maintain a Contact List
Seattle-based software startup Gist provides one of the most robust systems for managing your contacts, tracking what they’re doing online, and keeping detailed records of them. Gist is the most hands-free [more…]
Use the CRM System Plaxo to Maintain a Contact List
Many professionals use Plaxoto keep their contact records in order and monitor the online activities of the people they know. With the hundreds of online interactions you’re likely to engage in, keeping [more…]
Use the CRM System Batchbook to Maintain a Contact List
Batchbook, from Rhode Island–based BatchBlue Software, is a traditional sales-based Customer Relationship Management system. A CRM system is a software-based tool that stores interactions and organizes [more…]
Organize Your Contact List for Your Job Search via Social Networking
Not everyone in your contact list is created equal. Some people serve as hubs and help you meet interesting people while others offer you great advice and are more like mentors. Here are different roles [more…]
Job Searching: Keep a List of Your Online Networks
You may forget what networks you’ve joined, which is a real problem when you’re trying to conduct a job search in today’s social media–heavy environment. The Internet is a wild and unstructured place. [more…]
Maintain Social Networking Momentum after You're Hired
It takes years to build a strong network. The longer you stay away from professional networking, the more career momentum you’re bound to lose. And you can’t afford to lose any momentum — unless you don’t [more…]
Give Back to Your Job-Search Network by Helping Others
After you achieve some success in your job search or career with help from social networks, return the favor. Helping others look for jobs or get ahead in their careers gives them a sense of hope and self-confidence [more…]
Send a Regular Newsletter to Your Social Network Contacts
Sending your contacts an interesting, valuable, and consistent newsletter can keep you top of mind and active in your network. When done tastefully and with care, these professional [more…]
How Your Essential Personal Brand Affects Your Career
Personal branding is the culmination of your actions; it’s an image that marks you as a brand. It is you, the entire package, outside and inside, in the sense that you’re unique and distinguishable from [more…]
How Social Media Affects Your Brand
The widespread adoption of social media has been the catalyst for personal branding’s strong comeback. In the 12 years between Tom Peters’s 1997 influential article in [more…]
The Elements of a Personal Brand
A brand, by nature, is a very abstract thing. Even companies struggle to put their brands into concrete terms. If you’re new to the idea of a personal brand, having concrete examples of how your brand [more…]
Why Having an Online Presence Is Important for Job Searching
Information for just about everyone can be found online by someone who knows how to conduct the right search. That’s right. Personal information such as your name, address, and phone number are on the [more…]
Get Ready to Start Your Job Search via Social Media
Job seekers of earlier generations had one main tool at their disposal: the résumé. But thanks to the hundreds of social media sites out there, you have access to a lot more tools that can aid you in your [more…]
