Social Media Smack-down: LinkedIn vs. Twitter

The following post shares advice on connecting and interacting with professionals on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Networking, networking and networking; a method pounded into minds as students approach the internship and job search. There’s no doubt connecting with professionals in your desired industry can lead to potential opportunities, but how can you effectively interact with professionals via social media, especially those you don’t know? The answer; Twitter and LinkedIn. Twitter, a more laid

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Recruiters: 5 Mistakes You’re Making on Your Job Postings

Recruiters, if you want more applicants applying for your open positions, avoid the five mistakes mentioned in the following post.

Times are tough for recruiters these days. You’re overworked, underpaid, and (worst of all) you’re left with the impossible task of trying to find candidates who don’t seem to exist. Put the whole overworked, underpaid thing to one side for a moment. Focus on the candidates. The job market is full of them. In fact, it’s

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80% of Job Openings Are Unadvertised

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I was recently quoted by the Wall Street Journal as saying that 80 percent of job openings are unadvertised. Several people have contacted me to ask where I got that number. Some believe that only 70 percent of job openings are unadvertised. So where did I get 80 percent from?

As well stated on the Jobfully blog, the number bounces around a bit year-to-year and even month-to-month depending upon the state of the labor market and is indirectly reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in their monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). The survey reports these numbers: Continue Reading

4 Proactive Ways Job Seekers Should Use Twitter

How can Twitter benefit job seekers?  The following post offers four ways the social media site can help those looking for a new position.

If you’re a job seeker, don’t use Twitter to retweet a Kardashian or favorite something equally criminal. Twitter offers much more than snarky trends and celebrity gossip. The platform is actually full of thousands of job posts, rich learning resources, top-notch professionals in your field and much more. With such a smorgasbord

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Job Boards Aren’t Dead. They’re Evolving.

Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin of CareerXroads

Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin of CareerXroads just released their Annual Sources of Hire (SOH) Study, which is one of the most referenced and authoritative snapshots of how large, highly-competitive, high-profile firms define and measure the talent supply chain.

The SOH report is a glimpse of where employees – actual hires – were found. This data is important to organizations as they look to find and hire new employees. It is equally important to job candidates as they seek the most effective channels to a new job.

Interesting findings from this year’s study include: Continue Reading

Tweeting your way to a job: How social media is changing career searches

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Once upon a time, job searches centered on resumes, cover letters and networking phone calls. Oh, how times have changed.

While it is not quite time to retire the traditional resume yet, today’s job seekers may be better off trolling social media sites for leads, rather than spending time brushing up their objective statements. Surveys show that hiring managers and recruiters are increasingly turning to social media sites to find their next superstar employees. Continue Reading

Social Media and Your Job Search

Joshua John, Social Media & Outreach Coordinator at 2U

Job hunting isn’t what it used to be. Just pulling out the weekly Classifieds section and going through job listings item by item isn’t going to cut it. Ditto with career services, which tend to be helpful with finding specialized employment, but even then job-seekers can do a lot of that work themselves in this age of free electronic information. The Internet really has provided job seekers with a tremendous amount of autonomy and opportunity when it comes to finding employment. But having access to information isn’t the same as knowing how to use it. With that in mind, here are a handful of tips job seekers can use to help find work through their social media networks: Continue Reading

College Professors’ Experience With Social Media

While you probably won’t find many college professors teaching their students by using social media, there is evidence that faculty may be getting more comfortable with this form of communication.  Learn more in the following infographic. Continue Reading

Twitter Giveaway of $10 Starbucks Card to Celebrate 100,000 Followers

I currently have a grand total of 99,502 followers on Twitter, so to celebrate getting to 100,000 soon, I will give away a $10 Starbucks gift card tomorrow to a lucky follower to say thanks for listening to what I have to say on the social networking site.

Hopefully you’ve enjoyed at least some of the mostly employment-related content that I tweet and hopefully also some of the occasional irreverent content that somehow make it into the feed. I suspect gremlins are at fault but that’s another story for another day. Maybe I’ll even tweet it out.

So enough about gremlins. Do like Starbucks? Is there one near you? Um, I’m pretty sure if you’re reading this far the answers to those questions are yes and yes. So here’s all you have to do to enter:

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Social Recruiting Survey Says… Get on Social Media and Get Found!

A recent survey says both recruiters and job seekers can benefit from using social media.  Learn more in the following post.

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