Are you actively using Facebook for your job search? There are some great reasons to use it, truly, Facebook may be your ticket to a new job! ...
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Social Media
Social Networking Works
For all those nay sayers out there, I am happy to share the news that YES, social networking does work! But only if you are using it!
As with most networking, you can never be sure where or how ...
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Google+ Opens Up…Should You Jump on for Job Search?
Job search is all about networking, right?! So what if there were an easier way to connect with people you don't know? Google+ might be the answer.
Many introverts just aren't comfortable in crowds ...
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Pinging Your Network
If you are truly ready to accept the challenge of networking for the rest of your life, then you will need to find a way to make it FUN, otherwise, well, you just aren't going to do it.
Reach Out and ...
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Google Plus: How To’s and Other Resources
There are early adopters fiddling around with Google Plus. They are trying to find innovative ways to use the tool. You see, when Google built it, I am sure they had ideas about how they thought ...
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Proof You Need to Figure Out Social
For those of you who remember when job search simply required opening up the huge "help wanted" section in the newspaper- remember how frustrated you felt when you had to look for work on the job ...
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Google Plus One (Google +)
There's a new button in town! Do you have it? Do you get it?
If you are already a fan of Google, you've probably already started playing around with Google Plus 1. If you aren't using Gmail, ...
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Job Search and Social Media: A Collective Approach
You can't run a job search in a vacuum. You can't even run a job search alone. If you think of any of the great wins or successes in history, they all involved one or more of the following: ...
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Should I Be on Facebook if I am Looking for a Job?
As I was preparing for a presentation I am giving next week, I was trying to find convincing reasons why you should use Facebook and how you should use Facebook for your job search. I also observed a ...
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How To Find Smart People to Follow On Twitter
What if you could find smart people to follow on Twitter? Consider it another way to learn, stay current, and meet new people? ...
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Social Networks: Do They Help or Hurt Your Career?
I was flipping through Deloitte's 2010 Ethics and Workplace Survey "Trust in the Workplace", and came across this slide. It asks: "Does social networking help to build trust in the workplace?" ...
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Social Media In Job Search
As a last minute sub, I presented this information on Social Media in Job Search yesterday. It was a great crowd and lots of good questions.
What amazed me most was the fact that most ...
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Summary Sunday
This is one of my favorite Summary Sundays so far. It is referencing some of the posts from this week I shared on Twitter. Actually, if you aren't on Twitter yet, there are some posts here to ...
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2009 Hiring Trends In Review
Each year I look forward to CareerXroads Sources of Hire study results. Why? Because it justifies what all the expert career coaches are saying. We all know how turbulent 2009 ...
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Our Professional and Personal Lives are Blending
Sharing information is a personal value of mine. I hope that by sharing information that people reading it or hearing it will come up with solutions or new approaches or innovation of some sort ...
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Twitter Replaces Job Boards?
TweetDeck's recent news (read article from ClickZ) about partnering with TwitJobSearch is a sign. A sign that we seek a quick solution to finding a job. There are millions of tweets every day and ...
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Stop Asking for Informational Interviews
What Answers Are You Looking for?
When you are at the point where you are ready to reach out to people, you have to know what advice you are looking for. Do you want to know their thoughts on where ...
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Social Media is NOT about Telling People What You Had for Breakfast
Social media isn't about revealing what's going on in your personal life. (Though many use it that way.) It is about sharing information with other people. It is a tool for learning and finding ...
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Social Networks Are About Sharing and Giving Back
In the most simple terms, the great social networkers are not self promoting, they are sharing and giving back. Social networks are LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, Stumble, Digg, Wikis, ...
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Hop on the Social Media Bus?
Could it be as simple as it seems? Joining free virtual networks to share information with people you have something in common with?
A while back I read an article I saw tweeted on ...
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