Can you use facebook to find a job?
Friday, April 17th, 20097 Secrets to Getting Your Next Job Using Social Media
Please click the link above for the top 7 steps to using social media to land a position. This is a really interesting article that shows you how to leverage the information you can find in social networking sites to gain contacts, information, and job leads.
The 7 secrets are:
- Conduct a people search instead of a job search
- Use attraction-based marketing to get job offers
- Be proactive on Twitter
- Capitalize on LinkedIn
- Advertise your brand using AdWords and Facebook Social Ads
- Construct a video resume and upload it to YouTube
- Subscribe to blogs that have job listings
There are a lot of resources available online, you just need to know how to use them!
Jena joined the CSPD as the Assistant Director of Recruitment and Professional Development with over 4 years career services experience including a background in corporate recruiting. She is excited to work collaboratively with the Fox School students regarding career search strategies and hopes students gain some additional insight into the job search through “Opportunity Knocks”.
Kel is an undergrad majoring in Management Information Systems, graduating in 2010. He is very involved and hopes to share some of his experiences with other students. His goal is to motivate others to do their best. He believes that with a little inspiration you can get where you want to be. Through this blog, he wants to show you that opportunities are out there.