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For years, I have been preaching a job search strategt promoting the thought that if you travel allavenuess simultaneously, you are more likely to find your At no time has this approach been more criticak than today with so many people lookin g for work. Although we seem to have no problem acceptingv the concept of reinventingour images, there exists a largee group of candidates who turn away from more intimidatinv unfamiliarities. Simply, some are unwillingv to enter the wilderness ofunknown technologies. Baby boomers are most oftejn risk-averse when it comes to job search technologies, thereby fulfilling the prophect ofcareer obsolescence.
It is far more difficulrt for a CFO to admithe doesn’t use Twitterf because he’s expected to know what it is. And I meet candidatea daily who assure me they are linked in at though they’ll sheepishly acknowledge that’sz not what I asked. If your replies are “what’s that?” or “not yet,” then you are dangerously stalling your job Connecting to colleagues online bringsz benefits to job yet many harbor fears so theystay away. I, too, was afraic of new technologies becauseI didn’t want to face But once I began to discover job openings on tech tools that didn’t exist in 2005, I couldn’tf afford to be the one excluded.
For me, thesed are most valuable: LinkedIn (linkedin.com) has more than 35 millionb members in more than140 industries. Most are adultss and employed. Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on Most have disclosed what they do andwhere they’ves worked in the past. To job seekersd looking to researcha company’s decisioh makers, look no furthet than LinkedIn. It can offer great informatioj forthe interview. But it is as important to be seen, as it is to be able to located and learnabout others. If a human resources officer wants to researchu a prospective executivebut doesn’t see him on she may feel he won’t be on the leadinh edge.
With LinkedIn, you can join discussionb groups, answer questions submitted by PresidentBaracm Obama, spread the word that you’re in the job marker (no stigma if done properly) and secure endorsements from your colleagues. It is imperative that you create a profile. Also, I recommend a professionally done head-and-shoulderxs photo accompany it. A health-care company from Albany, recently called my firm in its search for a sales representative. We had a great candidate who had retained us for coachingh earlierthat day. Not actively job hunting, she had no and when I called the company they almosf passedon her.
Getting creative, I suggested the employert review and accept herLinkedIn profile. The followingv day they met. We caught up with creating her which is farmore compelling, but a LinkedInj presence opened the door. Twitterf (twitter.com) was born just three yearsz ago from the genius of two younvg men inSan Francisco. Unlike Twitter is a livintg entity reminiscent of the original Web chat rooms with aslighg delay.
Within the Twitter those with commonality of purpose and motive tend to When you sign upwith Twitter, you securer a screen name and can use it to post and receivse messages to a network of Instead of sending a dozen e-mails or text messages, you send one messags to your Twitter account, and the servicw distributes the communication to your friends. Memberes use Twitter to organize gatherings, carrg on a group conversation, or send a quicm update. You selectively follow the folks who providd valuable information to your job searchg and others inevitablyfollow you.
Whiler I find it enjoyable to follow members ofthe media, my sole purposre for participating is to harvest job openingx for my clients. There are numerous organizations to follow that can be segmenteby industry. I am most intriguecd by @jobshouts, @job @startuphire. I find who to follow by scoping out the home pagesz of colleagues following those who are likelh to tweet either sage advice or job During aMay seminar, an executived recruiter from Atlanta helped train our candidateds on phone interviewing. Spending 10 minutees with eachjob seeker, she provide d a critique on communication skills and We met on Twitter and have forged an alliance out of commohn interests.
No doubt, this is only one storyt of collaboration what could be more fulfilling for the isolatefdjob seeker. Some word of caution: Twitter can be very casuapl and, should you engage with folks in enjoyable conversation you might be think that no one else will read your That would bea mistake. Much like e-mail, instanr messaging blogs, and LinkedIhn discussions, anything on Twitter is stored in some permanent Internet Data security folks have mentioned blocking andprivach devices, but I would never take the