Entrepreneurs, Companies, & Job Seekers: Become a Go-To Source of Value
Tweet Whether you are a job seeker, entrepreneur, or company the first step in engaging with your targeted audience is to become a go-to source of valuable information. The idea is to stand apart from your competition and be relied upon and trusted by your network. The best method to begin this process is to understand how to find information that will make a difference to your network and establish you as that go-to source. The first step...
Read MoreCareerbuilder’s Applicant Explorer Tool: More Evidence Hiring Managers Are Looking Online
Tweet This week Susan and I spoke at a “Brown Bag” panel discussion at ProMatch in Sunnyvale. The subject of the discussion was blogging for job seekers. Before we could discuss blogging, we provided our posit (which is coming true each day) that we formulated in Q 2 of 2008: the role of the resume has changed, there is a paradigm shift and new trend in job search, and the role of the job seeker has changed. Your resume is no...
Read MoreTop 25 Social Media “Networks”: Entrepreneurs and Job Seekers’ Resource
Tweet If you are an entrepreneur or job seeker one of the best ways to network, market, and gain audience for your product or service(s) is to leverage the power of social media networks. The following is a list of the top 25 social media “networks” as ranked by traffic (visits per month) in a great retrospective article by Andy Kazeniac of Compete.com “Social Networks: Facebook Takes Over the Top Spot, Twitter Climbs.” This is a...
Read MoreSocial Media and Web 2.0: Job Seekers Your Resume is No Longer Your Marketing Tool
Tweet “Hiring managers are using the Internet to get a more well-rounded view of job candidates in terms of their skills, accomplishments, and overall fit within the company”–Rosemary Haefner Vice President of Human Resource Careerbuilder.com Susan and I presented our workshop “Web 2.0′s Impact on Job Seekers: The Changing Roles of the Resume, Job Search, and Job Seeker” at CSIX this past Tuesday to a...
Read MoreJob Seekers Heed Robert Scoble’s “If You Are Laid Off, Here’s How to Socially Network”
Tweet Robert Scoble is one of the most successful bloggers with his Scobleizer blog, technology evangelists, and well respected resources in Silicon Valley. His article “If you are laid off, here’s how to socially network” is a call to arms and a blue print for EVERY job seeker. Please heed his warning and take the steps Robert outlines. And by the way, many of these steps are steps we have already identified, written...
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