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How to Tweet in Ten Minutes a Day for Job Seekers
You may spend way too much time on Twitter to the detriment of other important job-seeking activities. Try the following simple, ten-minute checklist to keep your Twitter activities on task while maximizing [more…]
Twitter Lists Optimize Your Job Search Experience
With the lists feature on Twitter, you can drag-and-drop certain Twitter friends into categories. Job seekers can use this feature to their advantage by creating private lists of local recruiters, job [more…]
Why Facebook Needs to Be a Component of Your Job Search
Because Facebook has become the largest social network in the world, Facebook can no longer be ignored in your job search. Companies exploit the rich profiles of Facebook users to market their products [more…]
Facebook Privacy Basics for Your Job Search
You need to manager Facebook’s privacy settings to ensure that hiring managers are getting the right information about you. To access the privacy settings page, click on the Account button at the top of [more…]
How Job Seekers Can Connect on Facebook
As a job seeker, you want to be found. But you also want to control what information people can find about you. That’s where the “Connecting on Facebook” privacy settings category comes into play; it allows [more…]
Organizing Data You Gather from Social Networks during Your Job Search
You need some kind of system for organizing all the data you accumulate about people. After about a week of researching target companies and the hiring managers within those companies, you may find that [more…]
Journal Your Job-Search Journey on Your Facebook Wall
Use Facebook as a platform to share your job-seeking progress with friends and family. Let them know what steps you took that week to find work. Share interesting insights about yourself or about job seeking [more…]
The BranchOut Job App on Facebook
BranchOut does one thing: It offers LinkedIn-style functionality to your Facebook network. Unlike LinkedIn, Facebook wasn’t designed for professional networking, but in early 2010, Facebook acquired a [more…]
The Simply Hired Job App on Facebook
Simply Hired is the world’s largest job aggregation service, and you can use it on Facebook. The Simply Hired folks were early adopters of a LinkedIn integration that let you see who was in your LinkedIn [more…]
The Innovate CV and Jibe Job Apps on Facebook
Innovate CV and Jibe are two of the job apps that have developed ways to integrate with Facebook to help job seekers network. Facebook was designed strictly as a social media site, not as a professional [more…]
The CareerAmp and InTheDoor Job Apps on Facebook
CareerAmp and InTheDoor are two job apps that help job seekers network on Facebook. Unlike LinkedIn, Facebook was designed strictly as a social media site, not as a professional networking site. [more…]
How to Buy Targeted Facebook Ads to Promote Yourself
Facebook ads appear on the right side of a user’s Facebook Page. If you take out an ad for yourself, that ad may just lead to a connection that in turn leads to a job. Everyone sees different ads because [more…]
Cast a Wide Net for Job Search Success
The more online profiles you have, the better your chances are of getting found by the right hiring manager. LinkedIn is the highest-leverage tool for any professional at any stage in his or her career [more…]
Choose the Right Networks to Join for Your Job Search
Before joining a social networking site, think about what you’re trying to accomplish and what your job searching strategy is. Keep in mind that you’re not expected to join every single networking site [more…]
Look at Professional Networking Sites besides LinkedIn
Even though Brazen Careerist and Biznik aren’t as popular as Facebook or LinkedIn, they may still have some benefit for job seekers. Not only do they help you cast a wider net, but also they help facilitate [more…]
International Networking Forums for Job Seekers
If you’re pursuing a career overseas, then make sure you sign up for at least one of these networks: Viadeo, XING, or Ecademy. All these networks use a [more…]
Networking Sites for Visual Creative Professionals
Some networking sites designed with the creative professional in mind are Behance, Carbonmade, and FigDig. If you’re an illustrator, photographer, or some other type of creative professional, join at least [more…]
Use Google Search Strings to ID Hidden Job Boards
More than 4,000 niche job boards are available on the Internet. These niche boards can hold the key to the best job postings. Many job seekers don’t even bother trying to find them. The task just seems [more…]
Automate Craigslist for Fast Job-Posting Alerts
Craigslist is a great resource for part-time jobs, temp jobs, and entry-level jobs. Typically, jobs posted on craigslist are filled at a fast pace and can be a real solution for someone not interested [more…]
Follow Twitter for Job Postings
Almost every city has an entire hidden job market that’s accessible only through Twitter. Even if you never send a single tweet, you can still take advantage of this underground market. Here are the four [more…]
How Job Seekers Can Find Decision Makers through LinkedIn
Using LinkedIn, you can uncover great places to work and then find the exact people you need to talk to about employment. Using LinkedIn, you can follow changes in a company and be alerted to promotions [more…]
How Job Seekers Can Find Decision Makers through Twitter
Many hiring managers maintain Twitter accounts. Following these managers on Twitter, reading what they have to say, and then ultimately interacting with them can put you ahead of the other candidates for [more…]
How to Set Up Google Alerts with Hiring Managers’ Names
You can set up a Google alerts for information on potential hiring managers. Google Alerts is a service from Google that sends you e-mail notifications whenever a topic you’ve specified gets picked up [more…]
Pick Up Information Relevant to Your Job Search from LinkedIn Profiles
After you find hiring managers or other key folks on LinkedIn, you can begin gathering information about them that you can use to connect on a more personal level. When looking at a hiring manager’s profile [more…]
Ask Your Social Media Network for Job Search Help
Build social equity on your networks by building strong relationships with those in your network. That equity will pay off when you need to reach out for help in your job search. As you begin interacting [more…]
