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Students / Job Search / How to get your social media presence ready
It’s that time of the year when many students are starting to think about a summer job. Most are preparing their resume, learn how to fill out an application, making connections and get your references in order. But one thing that many students forget to do is to make their social media profiles “job search … Continue reading
Sweden / 40 percent of recruiters are checking social networking pages
40 percent of recruiters are checking potential employee’s social networking pages during the hiring process, a figure which has shot up from last year, according to a recent report. “It’s advisable that people think twice about the self-image they allow on the net,” said Johan Treschow of the chamber of commerce, to Dagens Nyheter (DN) … Continue reading
Social Media and Jobs
There’s not a lot of definitive data on the effectiveness of social networks, but what’s there suggests that social media hasn’t been quite the silver bullet solution that many were expecting. One survey found that 71% of respondents had not made a single hire from Twitter and 64% had not made any hires from Facebook. … Continue reading
US | Colleges and Universities | Only 29 pc of students have received career and job help
Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm and StudentAdvisor.com, a Washington Post Company and the leading free learning resource for students, today announced a new report on how students are developing their careers while in college. The report, The Student Career Development Study, shows that students are not aggressively preparing for their post-college … Continue reading
India – Hiring stronger than elsewhere according to LinkedIn
Hiring trends in India is relatively strong than other markets around the world as nearly half of employers believe the recruitment volume this year is up from 2011, a survey says. According to the LinkedIn Recruiting Trends survey with over 3,000 professionals/recruiters from the HR/Talent Acquisition department, of which 255 were from India, hiring in … Continue reading
Online ‘mood’ predicts unemployment spikes
SAS, UN discover that social media chatter can provide advanced warning of unemployment increases – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg “At a time when our need for policy agility has never been greater, our traditional 20th century tools for tracking international development cannot keep up. Too often, by the time we have … Continue reading
10 Tips for Job Seekers on Online Reputation Management
Don’t let questionable Facebook photos or Tweets, a bare-bones LinkedIn profile or negative posts beyond your control derail an otherwise smooth job interview process. Use these 10 tips to improve your personal Google search results and help land the job you want… 1. Be Careful What You Share Online. 2. Start Managing Your Online Reputation … Continue reading
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter – How Recruiters Use Social Media
By now, we’ve all heard about how employers scope out the Tweets and Facebook profiles of job seekers to winnow down the field of applicants. But job seekers may be surprised to hear just how many recruiters now use social media throughout the hiring process. Perhaps more surprising still, most recruiters are apparently checking for … Continue reading
Visual Portfolios Online
Name: Pathbrite Quick Pitch: Pathbrite offers students and young job seekers a way to present their accomplishments holistically online. Genius Idea: The digital platform lets users construct visual portfolios by pulling in representative pieces — pictures, links and published work — of themselves into one place. From online media to search, the web is becoming … Continue reading
Pinterest | 5 Ways to Use in Job Search
Most people use it to pin pictures of pretty clothes, interesting home decor, and drool-inducing food, but we’ve got another idea — use Pinterest for your job search. Here are five ideas of how to do just that: 1. Find Companies You Want to Work For 2. Put Your Resume on Pinterest as a Portfolio … Continue reading
LinkedIn Profile | 6 Things That Shouldn’t Be on Your Resume
Sure, LinkedIn and your resume have a lot in common. They both include your professional summary, experience, skills, contact information, education and important links. But beyond that, there are plenty of things your LinkedIn profile has that need to stay clear of your resume. 1. All of Your Experience 2. Publications 3. Recommendations 4. Interests 5. Birthday … Continue reading
Land a Job with 8 Social Media Strategies
Social Media Strategies from Linfield College Sign up for a Twitter account. Companies often tweet job openings, and find a sizeable pool of applicants within several hours. They also tweet valuable inside information that can help job seekers tailor cover letters and resumes. In addition, some career development offices at colleges tweet local job postings. … Continue reading
LinkedIn | India just behind the United States
Social networking site LinkedIn’s Indian user base has grown 300% in the three years it has had a marketing presence in India. The firm, today, has about 14 million users from India, which has quickly become its second-largest market globally, bigger than China and only behind the United States, according to Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn’s chief … Continue reading
Keep your friends close, but your prospective employees closer | Facebook, LinkedIn Used for Screening
: Social media circles can reveal a lot about a candidate. With the pervasive, worldwide adoption of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, job seekers know that the all-important first impression is potentially made well before the first interview. But just how many hiring managers browse social media profiles, and what types of … Continue reading
Jobs Search | Call Employers
Here are the tips for cold-calling that I got from my career counsellor: Go through the Yellow Pages and make a list of businesses you think you might enjoy working for. I found this pretty fun and encouraging, because it made me realize just how many businesses there are in Charlottetown that fit what I’m … Continue reading
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