Harvard Business Review Blog: Your Future Employer Is Watching You Online. You Should Be, Too.

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Facebook, Google Search, Interviews, job opportunities, LinkedIn, Michael Fertik, Unemployed, Unemployment

by Michael Fertik, blogs.hbr.org

Welcome to the Permanent Job Search. From now on, all of us will be “looking” for a job even when we’re not actually looking for a job. Employers are researching each of us digitally 24/7/365. Our resumes are perpetually available online in various forms, some of which we control and some of which we don’t. Those of us who exert the necessary effort to maximize our digital reputations will be rewarded: opportunities will find us. Those of us who don’t will miss out.

Here’s how it works:

1. Our information is collected online. All of the information about us — from social media profiles, to digital CVs, to credit card transactions, to app usage to the rest of our digital “footprint” — is being collected by third parties. This includes information that we choose to publish (“I’m a small business owner in Florida.”), information that others publish about us (“Sarah is a great team player.”), and information that is aggregated and shared behind the scenes without our knowledge (“Jonathan spends 400 minutes on sports websites and $300 on specialty foods per month.”).

A Recruiter’s Tips for Job-Hunting

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Employment, Employment website, Job, Job Board, job opportunities, JobSearch, LinkedIn, Recruiter, Recruitment, Unemployed, Unemployment

By Miriam Salpeter, www.usnews.com

Job seekers receive a lot of conflicting messages about how to look for opportunities. Many focus on applying via job boards as a main strategy, while career coaches often encourage them to use networking (or social networking) in lieu of job boards.

However, as Chris Havrilla, a talent acquisition/recruiting consultant who focuses on corporate recruiting strategy, process, and technology, says, it’s a good idea to incorporate searching for and applying for opportunities online as part of a well-rounded approach. “You wouldn’t build a house with just a hammer,” she says, “and you should approach a job search the same way. Some tools will be more valuable and effective than others, but the whole ‘house’ will get built faster and more efficiently if you use a toolkit instead of just one tool.”

Harvard Business Review – Smart Social Media Helps Jobs Find You

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Career, Harvard Business Review, Job hunting, job opportunities, LinkedIn, Social network, Unemployed

By George Anders, HBR Blog Network - blogs.hbr.org

How does a customer-service expert in Seattle catch the attention of a hot San Francisco startup in San Francisco, 700 miles away? The answer these days is likely to involve networking and brand-building on social media’s “fun” sites — even the ones best known for their tweets, pokes and cat videos.

It’s been obvious since 2003, when LinkedIn was launched, that social networking could help job candidates and employers interact. LinkedIn’s commitment to this market is underscored by the 150 million career bios on its site — and the more than $260 million in revenue last year from businesses wanting extra ways of connecting with potential new hires.

But more playful sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Quora, and even Pinterest are turning out to be valuable tools for job-hunters, too. In May, I will be publishing “Becoming a Rare Find,” an e-book that explores today’s most effective new job-hunting techniques. Many involve online equivalents to networking at beach resorts or children’s soccer games. People may go online to banter. No matter; before long, they talk shop.

Top 25 LinkedIn Groups ALL Job Seekers MUST Join

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Career, Career Rocketeer, Employment, Interviews, Job hunting, job opportunities, Job-Hunt, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Group, Resume, Unemployed

By Chris Perry – CareerRocketeer.com

One feature you job seekers may not know about or have fully explored is LinkedIn Groups. LinkedIn Groups are free to join, and you can choose to join up to 50 groups from a list of thousands of user-created groups for literally just about anything. Not only do these groups provide you access to connect with and contact fellow group members who could become future partners, employees, investors, customers etc., but the groups’ newly updated discussion board feature can provide more networking opportunities, answers to your questions and insightful advice, tips and support. You can also join the groups’ subgroups and contribute answers, comments and your own expertise to the groups’ discussion boards to establish your own online personal brand on LinkedIn.

5 Things You Can Do to Land the Interview

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Application for employment, Career, Employment website, Job description, Job hunting, job opportunities, jobs, LinkedIn, Social network

By Miriam Salpeter, US News

The online application process is a big frustration for job seekers. Many equate applying online to sending a resume into a black hole, never to be seen by human eyes. Some coaches advise their clients not to apply using online systems. Instead, they suggest an approach revolving around networking and accessing referrals from within companies to ensure that their clients’ application materials land on the right desks and help their chances of winning interviews.

Statistically, networking and internal referrals account for the majority of job offers. Startwire, a free service providing job seekers automatic updates on the status of their job applications, quotes Shanil Kaderali, manager of talent programs at WellPoint as saying, “On average, 1 of out every 33 candidates is going to get hired from an online source—such as a job board or a career site. If you are referred, your odds go up to 1 in 4.”

Employment Search Through Networking, Sample Letters

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Employment, Interviews, Job hunting, job opportunities, jobs, JobSearch, LinkedIn, Social network

When times are tough and you’re searching for a job, networking is one very effective approach for finding something that is right for you. When you use business and personal contacts in looking for a position, you approach potential employers as an insider. The process of networking during a job search does not begin when you start looking for a job.  It starts as soon as you begin working in your field, making contacts and building a reputation. 

7 Secrets to Getting Your Next Job Using Social Media

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Business, Career, Employment, Facebook, Job hunting, jobs, JobSearch, LinkedIn, Social media, Twitter

By Dan Schawbel, Mashable

Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.

Between current economic conditions and the technological evolution of the Internet, the traditional approach most job seekers have taken in the past is no longer viable.

The approach — developing a resume and cover letter, locating jobs on and submitting your resume to corporate sites and job banks, and crossing your fingers in hopes of receiving a call from a hiring manager — is, for the most part, a thing of the past. The new approach is far different. It boils down to the fact that there are fewer jobs available, more competition for those jobs and more touch points for recruiters and seekers to interact.

Facebook teams with U.S. to help the unemployed find jobs

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Career, Economy, Facebook, Interviews, jobs, LinkedIn, Resume, United States Department of Labor, Work

Posted on October 21, 2011 By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times

The social-networking site will work with the Labor Department to create a central location for employment services for Facebook users. Professional networking site LinkedIn doesn’t see it as a competitive threat.

 

Facebook Inc. has struck a partnership with the U.S. Labor Department to help the unemployed find jobs.

Job Seekers Turn to Facebook for Job Hunting

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Employment, Facebook, Job hunting, jobs, Jobvite, LinkedIn, Recruiting, Resume, Social network, Work

Article by John Zappe Nov 16, 2011, 8:00 am ET from Recruiting Intelligence website ere.net.

Facebook is emerging as the leading social network when it comes to job hunting. By a margin approaching 2-to-1, job seekers credit Facebook with helping them get their current job.

LinkedIn ran a distant second, with 46 percent of job seekers attributing their job to that business-oriented network. Twitter, the short messaging network, got a thumbs-up for its job help from 36 percent.