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How Are Employers Screening You through Social Media?

Just when you think you’ve aced the interview and have reference contacts lined up with many good things to say about you, take a deeper look. The fact is many employers today are resorting to social media sites to screen candidates. In fact, recent studies indicate that 85% of employers and 100% of recruiters will look you up on LinkedIn before calling you. So if you are a user of any one of the social networking sites that have…

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Added by Don Goodman on August 2, 2011 at 8:55am — No Comments

Fired Over Facebook

In episode #4 of "The Jim Stroud Show," Jim discusses the (all too often) conflict between social media and common sense. Leave a comment and it may be featured in an upcoming… Continue

Added by Jim Stroud on February 1, 2011 at 11:39am — No Comments

Power Your Job Search With Email On Overdrive

I had the opportunity to speak with T.A. McCann, CEO of Gist.com, to discuss how Gist’s free service can help job seekers.

Gist.com is a plug-in for major email applications and web based email, that mashes-up your contact list with information from Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and Google to give job seekers better information about the people they communicate with.

I started experimenting with Gist before I spoke with T.A., discovering that Gist can deliver tons of useful… Continue

Added by Phil Rosenberg on July 13, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

6 Timesaving Social Media Tools for Business

Time management is something that most of us struggled with long before social media. As we become more involved in the world of social media and the see the importance of building personal business relationships, managing your time both inside the social media space and outside as a business professional and human being becomes ever more important.

Once a month I host a free teleseminar where I discuss a topic related to social media. This month, I discussed “How to Manage… Continue

Added by Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR on February 9, 2010 at 12:59pm — No Comments

Social Media Job Searching (Part 1)

Amongst constant media attention and countless blog posts, Social media is here to stay. And you better get used to it. I here a great deal of job seekers still asking “WHY DO I NEED TO DO THAT?” If that is a question on your mind or if you simply do not know how to get involved, this series is for you. The focus will be to understand the importance of social media in the job search and workplace environments, plus how to leverage that to achieve your next job or enhance your current… Continue

Added by Jason Monastra on September 21, 2009 at 9:48am — No Comments

Social Marketing... what are you waiting for?

There are die hards out there who still insist the best way to get a job is the old fashion way– newspaper ads and word-of-mouth. While I agree on the word-of-mouth (a.k.a. networking) point, let’s face it, the reality of finding a “career” through a newspaper ad is slim.

So, if you are still unfamiliar with social marketing/networking and online branding/profiles, I will give you the 101 basics on how to get started online with fast… Continue

Added by Erin Kennedy, CPRW, CERW on June 15, 2009 at 8:24am — 4 Comments

Technology to the Rescue

The next time you poo-poo technology (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or others), think about how they may actually be able to help you instead of waste your time.

I read a great post about using Twitter to find jobs, Twittering for Jobs (which I found on Twitter, by-the-way).

There were a couple of good take aways for me:

One, use all media forms for your search: print,… Continue

Added by Hannah Morgan on May 16, 2009 at 5:30am — No Comments

Twitter for Termination Communication and More. . .

If you have ever heard me speak about Twitter, you know I am passionate about this social media platform and its possibilities. I am also an advocate of Twitter's use as a form of internal company communication as well as company branding and marketing possibilities. However, there are a handful of instances and examples that force me to draw the line especially when used in the Human Resource industry.

* Terminations. An employee of the Doner Advertising Agency learned via Twitter… Continue

Added by Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR on April 14, 2009 at 11:24pm — No Comments

Networking Online

Since I've been blogging and more active in social networking, I've had some neat experiences. I want to share them to help you understand how it can work for anyone.

LinkedIn:

I was looking for a contact name at a specific company for a job seeking friend. I sent an linkedin invitation to connect and the response I got was "call me, we need to talk". The phone call resulted in an attempt to try and recruit ME. Now, all I was trying to do was send this guy's profile over… Continue

Added by Hannah Morgan on April 11, 2009 at 4:54am — No Comments

Another Warning: Careful what you are posting on Facebook

The famous U.K. university, the University of Cambridge, recently published a paper on how they developed a software tool that takes Facebook profiles that are publicly accessible (and other publicly available information via search engines) to mine/infer private data.

From the article: "We focused on inferring information about a whole social graph...lists of every person and the connections between them," such as group memberships they had in common or geographic… Continue

Added by Ralph Plaskett on April 7, 2009 at 8:45am — No Comments

Mullets & Your Social Media Image

According to Wikipedia, a mullet is a unisex hair style that is short in the front and long in the back. The mullet began making appearances in the popular media in the 1960s and 1970s but did not catch on with the masses until the early 1980s.

Job seekers can learn from those that sport this fashionable cut when managing their online brand. A popular saying when describing a mullet comes to mind-

"Business in the front. Party in the back."

Wise words when… Continue

Added by Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR on March 24, 2009 at 11:47pm — No Comments

Have you Googled yourself lately?

I remember when Google first came out, I could (and still can) find everything under the sun. I also remember a friend telling me how he googled himself. My initial reaction was, “You did what?!” When he told me what it meant, I was relieved but also perplexed. I asked myself, ‘why would anyone search for themselves on the Internet?’ Now keep in mind that this was nearly 10 years ago and googling yourself was relatively new and social networking as common. When I finally came around to googling… Continue

Added by Ralph Plaskett on March 24, 2009 at 9:21am — 1 Comment

PODCAST: How 5 recent grads used facebook to jumpstart job search

Willy Franzen, author of the One Day One Job blog conducted a fascinating experiment recently. He took 5 recent college graduates and had them create ads on facebook that targeted employers. In this interview he'll explain how he came up with the idea and share some of the success stories from the job seeker themselves.…

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Added by Chris Russell on September 16, 2008 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments