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The NE Job Show
The NE Job Show is a New England based organization who is combining the concept of cable access TV, online video, and web development to encourage job seekers to connect with potential employment. Their bread-and-butter is video resumes, which seem to have proven successful to many of their members. Their blog, various episodes, video resumes, [...]
Baby Boomers turn to blogs to find jobs
www.AZCentral.com Bette Publicker, 58, entered the blogosphere last week. The event planner, who was laid off last year, created her blog at a workshop hosted by the Scottsdale Job Network. The Valley-wide group hosts meetings that focus on job-transition training and connects job seekers with employers and business leaders. “I’m being dragged kicking and screaming [...]
The Secret to Finding a Job! CONNECT!
Here is a great example of networking to find people, to ultimately connect with a future employer. An urban legend tells us that it is impossible to cold-call an employer asking for a job, so why not meet them via the internet. @BostonTweet is a great example of utilizing an online tool for personal benefit, while [...]
White House Utilizes Social Media
Even the White House is doing it… Why aren’t you? www.WhiteHouse.Gov In the President’s last Weekly Address, he called on government to “recognize that we cannot meet the challenges of today with old habits and stale thinking.” He added that “we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more [...]
Easy Trick to Ranking on Google
Create a Google Profile. This tip came in from @KarenRubin, and it is the entry stages to Google’s ultimate social network. This Google profile will appear at the bottom of the search results to your own name. Simple information like location, websites, social networks, hobbies, a description, and a pictures are included on the page. [...]
Dan Klamm’s Career Blog for College Students
I was tipped off about this great career blog for current college students. Dan is a graudate of Syracuse in New York, and is now an employee of the university. He writes about personal branding, online presence, and development services. For those looking for specific examples and to-do lists to succeed after college, Dan’s website [...]
7 Hot Tips to Build Personal Branding Into Your Executive Resume 2.0
www.Brand-Yourself.com A really great resume – one that captures attention, gets interviews, and lands jobs faster – has always been all about differentiating that job seeker and their promise of value from others competing for the same jobs. Personal branding is the best career marketing tool today to get you there. And branding generates the [...]
Jobs In Social Media Dot Com
This website looks like a great network of HR reps and unemployed social media specialists looking to network! www.Jobsinsocialmedia.com —————————————————————————————————————- This is a social network and job board for those interested in working in the social media industry. Social Media Jobs are rising With social media becoming a major player in how people communicate and interact with [...]
Job hunting? Stand out from the pack
Originally viewed at www.Freep.com Kris Plantrich, a certified career coach and owner of Resume Wonders in Ortonville, is a busy woman. The scarcity of jobs in Michigan is bringing her customers willing to pay $350-$600 to help them stand out among what could be thousands of applicants for a single job. “There are jobs out [...]
Jobshouts.com
This morning Chris Brogan of [chribrogan.com] posted a link to a new job site on his twitter profile. Let us know what you think of the site! Jobshouts.com
Create a Lifestream
Tumblr and Friendfeed can create a lifestream; an aggregator of all of your social networking sites. Websites like facebook, twitter, youtube, digg, delicious and many others can automatically be fed to a lifestream, to display all aspects of your life. This allows for direct interaction with each of your social networks, and your website will [...]
How To Get A Job-Social Media Style
As you may know, Ignite Social Media is a close knit group who has grown rather quickly in the last year. Since I started, the agency has doubled and we’re still growing. In that time, we have chosen carefully to ensure we’re getting people that are the perfect fit for each opening and it hasn’t [...]
Resume 2.0
There is now a new resume. The traditional static document that is carefully crafted to summarize your specific experience and expertise is being replaced. Instead, we have Resume 2.0. It is the combination of your public profiles, life streaming your social activity, and what the search engines say about you. Much like Google is now [...]
Who’s Hiring at the World’s Most Admired Companies – Vol I
Another Fortune list, which means more resources for your job search, this list “The World’s Most Admired Companies” is a global list, some of which are also included on the other Fortune lists. I’ll review 5 per post until we run out. The full list can be found here =====>> Most Admired. http://careeralley.com/careers/whos-hiring-at-the-worlds-most-admired-companies-vol-i/
Using the social web to find work
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 [...]
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