Social Networks

Update Your LinkedIn Profile Status Often, but Don’t Self Promote

By Donald Sears ⋅ March 4, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Blatant self-promotion is bad form on social networks, said social marketing expert Veronica Fielding in the article “How to Build and Nurture a LinkedIn Profile Network” for TheLadders. Updating your profile’s status, however, with informative article links, industry event notices and posting community-centric information regularly is a great way to stay visible and be viewed [...]

LinkedIn Anoints Twitter “Professional”

By John Hazard ⋅ November 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

LinkedIn announced today that it would sync it’s status updates with Twitter and, in a way, anointed Twitter as a professional social network.
According to the New York Times: “The partnership with LinkedIn affirms Twitter’s role as a network for professional conversation. More than social sites like Facebook, people use Twitter to keep abreast of professional [...]

Too Old to Tweet

By John Hazard ⋅ November 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Are you tool old for Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn? No, and it’s one of the worst reasons to eschew social media in your job search, according to Josh Waldman, a social media career consultant and author of the Careerealism blog.
The three excuses that most often keep job seekers from using social networks in their [...]

Are Bigger Facebook and LinkedIn Networks Better Networks?

By John Hazard ⋅ October 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

For all the effort you put into expanding your network on LinkedIn and “friending” colleagues and acquaintances of acquaintances on Facebook, the bigger, broader network may not be helping you or the recruiters trying to find you.
Networking should be about quality, not quantity, wrote Jon Picoult, the founder of Watermark Consulting in Simsbury, Conn., in [...]

When Your Web Trail and a Recruiter’s Reputation Collide

By Donald Sears ⋅ September 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Recruiters are worried that applicants might ruin their reputations and have turned to social networks to find embarrassing details that might compromise them later.
Recruiters often consider their reputation on the line with every hire, even months into employment, said Kris Dunn, who writes the HR Capitalist blog. He and others usually do their best to [...]

Recruiters Using Social Networks to Build Candidate Pipelines

By Donald Sears ⋅ September 15, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Are social networks worth your time?
It might be easier to answer that question, if you asked recruiters if social networks are worth their time? They are worth a recruiters time, said David Szarzy, an expert on recruiting and founder of the Recruiter Academy. In fact, social networks are a time saver for recruiters building a [...]

Social-Networking Job-Search Advice: Common Courtesy Applies

By Donald Sears ⋅ July 23, 2009 ⋅ One comment

New to social-networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter?
Well, the same rules apply as in face-to-face networking. Be courteous and respectful of people’s time, and don’t overdo the self-promtion. There’s a line between taking and giving; in networking, think of others before yourself and you will reap the benefits, according to the article “Social Netiquette: [...]

How to Network and Find Unlisted Job Openings Before Anyone Else

By Donald Sears ⋅ July 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

If you are currently searching for a job, networking has never been so important. It’s not enough to have a large network of industry and former work contacts. You must be able to provide value to your network by not only hitting contacts up, but offering to help others use your contacts to benefit their [...]

Twitter Tutorial for the Job Search

By John Hazard ⋅ April 13, 2009 ⋅ One comment

It seems every publication under the sun is advising job seekers that they need to be on Twitter to find a job. This includes our own voice in the chorus – Can You Facebook your Way to a New Job?, published in February on TheLadders Career Advice, which mentioned Twitter merely in passing.
But much of [...]

Cisco Fatty: How to Lose a Job in 140 Characters or Less

By John Hazard ⋅ March 23, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Be careful what you tweet. Be careful about everything you do on the Web. Can we say it loud enough? Apparently not.
eWEEK’s Careers blogger Don Sears brings us the potentially sad tale of Connor Riley, a.k.a. “Cisco Fatty,” a candidate for a job at Cisco Systems who made the misstep of telling the world via [...]

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