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Status Update:

David Gallant — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:31:59 +0000

On April 25, NSR completed its first face-lift. I had to change priorities in the navigation, as well as allow for more content to be visible ‘above the fold’. I am also integrating more social networking tools into the website.
We will still launch before the college graduation season.

Practice Interview Question #1

David Gallant — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:55:13 +0000

This question comes in from Nick Swinmurn of Zappos. When preparing yourself for a job interview, test your response to a question like this. Would you make the cut???

From @6pm_graham, GM for http://www.6pm.com – “Why shouldn’t I hire you?

Job 2.0 Flip Book

David Gallant — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:47:25 +0000

Fortune.com’s creative take on re-branding yourself!

Fortune.com

Found your job using social networking?

David Gallant — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:58:13 +0000

If you did, please use our Contact Form and let us know! We at NewSchoolResume are looking for stories of social networking used to expose your resume and work experience to a future employer!

17 Tips for Finding a Job with Social Media

David Gallant — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:19:21 +0000

In the current economic situation, social media has emerged as a powerful tool for the newly jobless. There have been countless posts about the coming of social media and what it means, mostly in the abstract. But right now, social media provides a practical use job hunting.
Your social networking activity is basically your own personal cloud that you can pluck for your own benefit. Most of the jobs that you will get in your life will not be from a classified ad or a job ad. You will have found out about them from your personal network – virtual and physical. Social media creates a bigger network, allowing you to connect with more people and to find out about more job opportunities.

Many Web 2.0 pundits have been decrying the loss of privacy in the Web 2.0 age, as well as sending out warning signs to control how much information you allow out there about yourself. Now, the focus is shifting to how you can mange your personal brand message on social media sites and use them to grow your career.

So, how can you use social media to find a job?

www.dailybits.com

Question: How To Ask A Friend For A Job

David Gallant — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:37:38 +0000

Answer: DONT.

There are significant pressures added when you inquire for a job through a friend. Both your names are on the line because the friend is no longer supporting just their own self, and since you are the new applicant, you will have to keep up to your resume

The purpose of social media is to increase your network of contacts and have employers find you through friends, not you finding them. Social networks raise transparency about personalities and skills, which has never been available before. If you convince a friend to ‘put your name in the running’ for a new job, you are just forcing the system to work in your favor, which many not happen.

I would compare this to a phone call marketer versus a social network advertisement box: one is forced, the other is voluntary. The key is to manage your New School Resume to become visible to your friend’s company in order to get yourself in, instead of using the person as a tool.

The beauty of social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin are that virtual hierarchy’s can be created to show connections. Harness these connections to raise your awareness with the target company, instead of directly asking them to offer an interview.

Founder Hits the Front Page

David Gallant — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:00:56 +0000

NewSchoolResume’s founder David Gallant was featured on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald. He found his job with a Boston area interactive marketing firm as a social media and search engine developer. He used Twitter to connect with a Boston Seo Salesman named Pete Caputa and eventually was introduced to Dean Whitney, the President of GGI.

Read the article about him finding his job within 2 weeks of completing college here: Sydney Morning Herald

“Best Resume Website Ever”

David Gallant — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:35:25 +0000

Thanks to @JenNorris for this one.

This is an example of web development-gone-wild. Animated and moving text distracts readers. The content is not organized and is quite out of sync with adjacent phrases. Although this may be a funny joke, the creativity is not effective. At the same time, he is now niche as ‘that guy’ and people will remember the name of the AJAX developer with the worst resume ever named Noah.

http://noahstokes.com/

10 Old School Resume Rules

David Gallant — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:21:50 +0000

Last week I wrote a guest blog post over at What Would Dad Say, talking about how older job seekers might need to think like 13-year-olds to succeed in job interviews today. But over the past couple days, I started thinking about all the ways we should NOT repeat behaviors from times gone by. Old-school resume writing machine

Specifically, we need to ditch at least 10 of the old-school resume and cover letter rules that were popular back in the ’70s, ’80s, and even into the ’90s.

Here’s a fun little retrospective of 10 outdated resume and/or cover letter guidelines from the past few decades, and the new rules that have replaced them:

http://www.pongoresume.com

Using the social web to find work

David Gallant — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:15:36 +0000

2009 will be an unprecedented time for workers in the US, with many people losing their jobs through no fault of their own. This will ripple economically to other countries as well. No one’s really safe. I wanted to offer some ideas ahead of the mess.

I’ve written Using the Social Web to Find Work as a free ebook for you to download and share with others. It includes ideas and information from [chrisbrogan.com], and takes you from the specifics of using LinkedIn to your benefit, into some ideas on how to grow and nurture your social networks ahead of a need for them.

It’s not much, but I wanted to help in one way that I know how – by providing ideas and actionable information.

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/free-ebook-using-the-social-web-to-find-work/