Job Searching With Social Media

The book I read to research this post was Job Searching With Social Media for Dummies by Joshua Waldman which is an excellent book which I bought from Kindle. I only read this book because I thought it would make an interesting blog. There are primarily 3 major social network sites which are Twitter, Facebook  & Linkedin. If you are interested in working abroad you should look at websites which are based in that country. Also sometimes there are social media sites which are based around your profession ie if you are a digital artist. Apparently on Twitter specific professions have discussions on a certain day during the week. An example was that Human Resources have a discussion on a thursday. Anybody can join in on these discussions although they use a special hash tag which you have to find out about. You should check your online history via a search engine like google or a free site which is specifically for that purpose is http://www.pipl.com/ You can often tell them what parts of their data belong to you. Sometimes you have to enter whether you have letters after your name, or your town, or your middle name. If you have a bad history you can enter new data in the form of either blogs or social media & just hope it gets driven down the rankings. If a company is researching you they will seldom look beyond the 3rd page. One beauty of Twitter is you can talk to anybody via the @ symbol. Linkedin is probably the social media site that is most respected by google so you want your cv on there. A lot of people use a free website like Weebly on which they have their cv & link to it via their social media sites. Especially on Linkedin if you are approaching someone for a job, obviously read that persons page but also join some of the Linkedin Groups that person is a member of. Also contribute an article to one of those groups. If you are just after an entry level job try craigslist.com on this site the jobs are often taken very quickly though. A final note particularly if you are after a high level job try & find something almost unique about yourself that makes you more suitable for that job than the other candidates & make sure you stress it.