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Career and social networking online resources. Where to network online as part of your job search and how to use a social network to help land a job.
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Suggestions and tips for using LinkedIn to help with job searching and building your career.
Social Media Do's and Don'ts
Social media, including sites like Twitter and Facebook, can help you find a job and connect with people who can assist you with growing your career. However, it works both ways. Social media when used the wrong way can backfire and jeopardize a job offer or even your current job.
How to Ensure Employers Can Find You
When you're conducting a job search, you need to make it easy for employers to find you online. Employers, who can be inundated with resumes when they post jobs, often seek passive candidates (qualified candidates who aren't necessarily looking for work, but who may be interested if the right job comes along).
How to Use Social Media in Your Job Search
Most people know that the best way to find a job is through networking. You can go to networking meetings, tap into your own personal network, or ask friends who they know. With the Internet buzzing with social media, there are similarly many ways to use social media in order to network, and eventually find a job.
Tweet Your Way to a New Job - Or Not?
The buzz lately is all about Twitter. How Twitter is a great communication tool, which it is. How Twitter is a great way to connect with people, which it is. And how Twitter can help you get a job, which it can.
Facebook and Professional Networking
Should you use Facebook for professional networking, and, if so, what is the best way to use it?
Facebook and Job Search Privacy Tips
If you are a Facebook user and are concerned about employers (or others) seeing the personal information that you have on Facebook, you can change your privacy settings so only certain people, like your friends or other students, can view your profile.
Online Profiles
When you're looking for a job or positioning yourself for career growth, it's important to have an online presence where you can showcase your skills and experience.
Social Recruiting and Your Job Search
Companies are increasingly using social recruiting to source candidates for employment, as well as to investigate applicants they are considering hiring. It's important to be aware of what companies are doing. You can use company's recruiting tactics to your advantage and position yourself to be discovered by employers seeking candidates.
MySpace and Job Searching
If you have a MySpace or Facebook page and you're job searching, you may have heard that you need to be careful about the information you post. You do need to be careful, but it's also important to consider the flip side to job searching and MySpace - the companies who use it to find candidates for employment.
MySpace and Job Search Privacy Tips
If you are a MySpace user and are concerned about employers (or others) seeing the personal information that you have on MySpace, you can change your privacy settings so only certain people, like your friends, can view your profile.
MyWorkster
MyWorkster provides a professional presence online (including a profile, resume, and video resume) as well as a means of networking with other job seekers and employers. MyWorkster also has job listings, blogs, and an instant messenging service.
Job Search Internet Checklist
When you're job searching, what you probably consider personal information can be found online by potential employers. Given that many employers do research potential employees, it's important to ensure that all your communications, including email, instant message, MySpace and Facebook profiles, and blogs are professional.
Land the Ideal Job Using Social Networks
Social networking can assist with your job search by promoting traditional networking, building relationships by e-mail and by interviewing. A social network can be the perfect way to land the ideal job.
MySpace, Facebook and Privacy
Did you know that your MySpace and Facebook profiles aren't as private as you think they are? Employers have been known to peruse MySpace and Facebook, along with blogs and web sites of prospective employees.
The Power of Job Search Networking
Networking itself is not a revolutionary concept, but how people are networking and connecting to great opportunities is changing with next-generation job sites that combine job search and networking. People can now find jobs using powerful search tools on the Web and get jobs based on the strengths of existing relationships.
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