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How to Grow Your LinkedIn Network the Easy Way
LinkedIn Open Networkers, or LIONs, are liberal networkers and can have networks as large as 15,000 connections or more. The more connections you have on your LinkedIn profile, the more likely hiring managers [more…]
How to Grow Your LinkedIn Network the Strategic Way
You can grow your LinkedIn network strategically, rather than aggressively by taking a conservative approach. Conservative networkers add only people they know, and in some cases, they must have had at [more…]
Join LinkedIn Groups to Increase Your Network’s Size
Boost your LinkedIn network's numbers by joining one or more groups. A LinkedIn Group is a collection of professionals connected around a common theme. A group’s main function is to facilitate discussions [more…]
How to Participate in LinkedIn Groups to Help Your Job Search
As a job seeker, when it comes to LinkedIn Groups, participation is mandatory. Your primary focus is to stand out of the crowd and be seen. Spend five to ten minutes a day cruising your top three groups [more…]
How to Embedding Video into Your LinkedIn Profile
Add a video résumé or simply share an interesting video on your LinkedIn profile to give it some personality and attract attention from hiring managers. Adding a video to your profile takes a little tweaking [more…]
How Job Seekers Can Share on Facebook
Sharing settings relate to how you interact with Facebook. As a serious job seeker, you want to understand every detail of what’s being shared and with whom. This category allows you to control who can [more…]
Facebook Limited Access Lists for Job Seekers
As a job seeker, creating "Limited Access" lists is your best defense against recruiters, bosses, or other professionals who want to friend you on Facebook but who you don’t really know personally. Using [more…]
Edit Your Facebook Profile for Hiring Managers’ Eyes
Your Facebook profile can be made visible to people who haven’t joined your network yet. If you spend time and fill it in, hiring managers and recruiters can learn more about you. Your profile info also [more…]
Practice Good Facebook Wall Etiquette when Job Seeking
The Facebook Wall is your venue for communicating with your network and letting people know what job you’re looking for. Proper etiquette is essential because the Wall is an amazing platform for expressing [more…]
Innovate CV Can Innovate Your Video Résumé
Innovate CV is an online, multimedia, résumé-building tool that’s a great alternative to VisualCV. You can use Innovate CV to make your video résumé stand out to perspective hiring managers. The purpose [more…]
Design a Digital Résumé on DoYouBuzz
DoYouBuzz is a great option if you want to have a personal website but don’t want to deal with the hassle of starting one from scratch. Setting up your free online résumé with [more…]
Produce a Conventional Video Résumé on Emurse
Emurse is ideal if you want a digital résumé that looks just like a traditional paper one. Emurse offers a more conservative-looking online résumé than other online résumé services. In fact, you may say [more…]
Buying the Right Domain to Build a Résumé as a Website
A website résumé is a static site that displays your résumé elements visually on a set of web pages and serves as the central hub of your job search. Use your name as the domain name of your résumé website [more…]
Easy Website Tools Help You Design a Résumé as a Website
Three easy solutions for building a custom website for your job search are WordPress, Weebly, and Squarespace. You have literally thousands of options to choose from when building your own website, from [more…]
Write the Right Content for Your Website Résumé
Your goal when writing content for your online résumé is to present a more rounded and colorful picture of your professional career than what can be found on paper. Don’t just copy and paste your résumé [more…]
What Separates Twitter from the Social Media Pack
Twitter is different from other social networks. If you’re already on LinkedIn and Facebook, have multiple online résumés, and own your own domain name, you may wonder why on earth you should bother with [more…]
How Twitter Can Help You Find a Job
Twitter is a great tool for building your personal brand and developing key relationships at target companies. The instant online communication of the real-time [more…]
Choose Your Twitter Name and Username for Job Searching
Your name and username form a title tag on your Twitter profile page; this title tag appears in the Internet browser’s window. Google uses title tags as part of its search algorithm, which is a good reason [more…]
How to Write Your 160-Character Twitter Bio for Job Searching
Google uses your bio to index your Twitter account, so those 160 characters may be the first splash of information someone gets about you. Think of your Twitter bio as a sales pitch. People decide whether [more…]
Tweak Twitter Settings for Job Searching
Spend time within the Settings panel when you’re using Twitter to help you with your job search. Adjust your profile background, choose one quality link, and manage your notifications. Head over to the [more…]
What to Tweet on Twitter to Enhance Job Search Efforts
When tweeting give hiring managers a chance to get to know you better. Google displays your last two tweets in search results for your name, and people often read these tweets before deciding to follow [more…]
What Not to Tweet on Twitter to Enhance Job Search Efforts
You’re using Twitter to get a job, and everything you tweet becomes public domain. Hiring managers are among the potentially thousands of people who may read your tweets. [more…]
Find People to Follow on Twitter to Help Your Job Search
Prospective followers, such as hiring manager, look at your FF ratio, most recent tweets, how long you’ve been on Twitter, and whether your profile seems legit. To achieve a [more…]
Uncover Your City’s Underground Twitter Job Board
Every major metropolitan city has a human resource industry wherein recruiters build a list of possible candidates to place into possible jobs. Twitter is often where these recruiters are turning to post [more…]
Twitter Job-Seeking Tools
TwitterJobcast and TweetMyJobs are great tools for job seekers that are available on Twitter. TweetMyJobs is a great career-management company with plenty of traction in the U.S. employment marketplace [more…]
