5 Ways Your Online Lifestyle Can Ruin A Career Opportunity

If you are a job seeker who uses social media, be very careful about your perception online.  The following post examines ways that employers might view you negatively based on your social media profiles.

Many people want to keep their “work lives” and their “personal lives” separate. However, with social media it has become more and more difficult to keep the two worlds from colliding. Today’s employers will look through social profiles in order to help them decide who would be a good candidate for a job position. The amount of information your publish on social media sites makes it easy for potential employers to have access to your personal life, which could turn out to be bad for you if they happen to spot some things that will turn them off, and ruin your opportunity to get the job.

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5 Ways Your Online Lifestyle Can Ruin A Career Opportunity

“Integrators” Get Ahead: Skillfully blending your online personal image and professional life

Social media can play a positive role in both enhancing your image personally and professionally.  In the following post, learn some tips that can help you achieve this goal.

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“Integrators” Get Ahead: Skillfully blending your online personal image and professional life

Are Your Social Media Profiles Speaking For You or Against You?

Job seekers should know that social media can be their best friend or worst enemy, depending on their profiles.  The following post offers tips to help keep you from losing out on becoming a potential job candidate.

Social media is a great tool for your job search and job application process because it allows you to get your name out to the entire world. Employers are starting to utilize social media sites to not only find prospective applicants, but also to investigate current applicants. This means that you need to make sure that your online profiles are showing off your best attributes and give the impression that you would be a great employee.

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How Social Media Can Influence College Admissions

Prospective college students might think that their applications are the only factor in determining admission into college.  However, their social media profiles could also influence whether or not they will be accepted into the schools they have applied for.  Learn more in the following infographic. Continue Reading

Why Social Networks Are Crucial to Getting Recruited

Jessica Holbrook Hernandez of Great Resumes Fast

Jobvite, a recruitment platform for the social Web, revealed in its 2012 Social Recruiting Survey that an increasing number of employers are using social networking as a vehicle to recruit candidates. In fact, 73% of employers said they hired a candidate through social media in 2012, compared with 63% in 2011.

This revealing survey shows just how important it is for job seekers to showcase their talents on the Internet. With nearly three-fourths of top employers seeking talent online, not promoting your skills via the Web could make it more challenging to find the job you’re looking for. Continue Reading

Evolving labor market calls for evolving tactics

Livingstone Mukasa, Founder and CEO of Archability

Many of us can recall, rather recently, times when the majority of soon-to-be college graduates had secured two, maybe three job offers prior to donning the ceremonial gown and walking down the aisles to get their degrees.  In those days, recruiters were just about everywhere, many taking on new employees in droves and even throwing in signing bonuses and paid relocation expenses.  All that mattered was a college degree.  The rest simply fell into place on its own.

Seemingly overnight, this equation that had existed for generations was turned upside down.  Unbeknownst to many, market forces were at work chipping away at what had been the standard formula for job security.  The days of graduates finding jobs with minimal effort were coming to end as the very definition of job seeking and recruitment was undergoing a transformation that would set a new precedent in the sourcing and securing of employment. Continue Reading

The Secret Resume: How to Craft a Marketable Online Presence

People graduating college this year have to deal with a relatively new obstacle as they search for employment. Like every other jobless graduate before them, they have to prove their skills and employability through countless resumes and cover letters, hoping that some employer will notice their talent. But they also have to monitor and cultivate their online presence—the collection of all the pictures, videos, and text that can be linked back to them in some way. Recent college grads in their early to mid-twenties would have grown up using the web, starting profiles and sharing pictures when they were just kids. Continue Reading

You, Online.

You’ve heard the idea that everyone is connected to everyone else by just six degrees of separation? Well, make that just two degrees of separation, thanks to social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Because of this, your online presence—and the relationships you build through social networking—is vital to building your career.

The majority of people still find jobs and get hired through personal connections. Social media is your route to making more personal connections—and to making them more, well, personal. Having a strong network not only gets you the job—it also gives you the opportunity to exchange ideas and knowledge with other professionals. Continue Reading