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The State of the Internet

http://vimeo.com/9641036

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Is Social Media a Fad

http://tinyurl.com/2w6g5gn

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Did you know 4.0

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUr

EWe8&feature=player_embedded#

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How are recruiters currently finding

talent?

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Recruiters must build relationships

• The ability to find great people and build relationships with them should be the core competence of

every recruiter. This is what all great recruiters do. Recruiters within

organizations need to get out of the organization and get to know people at all levels

and professions who might be useful to their firm. They need to use

technology to help create the initial relationship, and then they need to leverage that

by using social media including Twitter, blogs, websites, and anything else that will

create authentic interaction with a potential candidate.

• Kevin Wheeler May 8, 2009, 5:55 am ET

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5 New Recruiter Skills for Successby Kevin Wheeler May 8, 2009, 5:55 am ET

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SEO

The adoption of consumer marketing

principles to recruiting.

• Replacing individual postings will be search engine optimized talent hubs, where candidates can search for jobs by class and company (e.g., all Flash developers at Google).

• These are company- and job-specific niche boards that will replace the need for aggregators and all public boards. At these sites prospects can submit resumes, be funneled to specific openings, or just be followers.

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Employee referral programs

• It's also obvious that your best employees

have heard of, or personally know, the

best people in your industry and in their

field of expertise.

• Tapping into this network through a

employee referral program will be a critical

component of tomorrow's programs

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Time of possession will become

the dominant recruiting metric

for hiring top people

• The sourcing sweet spot of the near future will be to get these people to call you on the first day they decide to get serious about considering a new career opportunity.

• It's pretty obvious that those candidates found on day one are of higher quality than those found after they've been looking 2-3 weeks. (Note: good recruiting agencies are already doing this.)

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Examples of How Consumers

Online Presences are hurting them

in the Job Search

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Personal Branding

(Google Search)

• A friend advertised on Craigslist

for a housekeeper.

Three interesting resumes came to

the top.

She googled each person's name.

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• The first search turned up a MySpace

page. There was a picture of the

applicant, drinking beer from a funnel.

• Under hobbies, the first entry was,

"binge drinking."

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• The second search turned up a personal

blog. The most recent entry said,

• "I am applying for some menial jobs that

are below me, and I'm annoyed by it. I'll

certainly quit the minute I sell a few

paintings."

Seth's Blog: Personal branding in the age of

Google

sethgodin.typepad.com/.../personal-branding-in-

the-age-of-google.html

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• The 3rd? There were only six

matches, and the sixth was from

the local police department,

indicating that the applicant had

been arrested for shoplifting two

years earlier.

• Three for three.

• Google never forgets

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A hazard of social networking

is people will read what you

write

Fed Ex

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Social Media Restrictions - What Workers Should Know Before They Post

Social media has become pervasive for personal and business use. Sixty-one percent of full-time workers reported they have a social networking profile. Among them:

• Half of workers (51 percent) spend time on their social networking page during the workday; 11 percent spend one hour or more.

• 25 percent include information about their employer in their communications on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace; 15 percent include company information on Twitter; 13 percent of workers with personal blogs say they blog about their companies.

• 13 percent of workers are "friends" with their boss on their social networking profile.

• 22 percent of workers have separate social networking profiles for personal and business use.

• With social media becoming a key avenue for employers to promote their brands, products and services and job opportunities, companies are taking a closer look at how messages about the company are communicated.

• 37 percent of employers have a policy on whether workers can communicate about the company on social media sites; 17 percent have implemented a stricter policy on employees communicating about the company on social media sites in the last year.

• 21 percent prohibit employees from communicating about the company. Thirteen percent have designated certain employees to post on behalf of the company.

• 16 percent monitor social networking profiles of employees and 14 percent monitor blogs.

• Internet Usage Nearly three-in-five workers (58 percent) admitted they use the Internet for non-work related activities while at the office. Twenty-one percent will typically spend one hour or more on personal Internet use while at work. Workers are advised to limit their Internet searches to those related to work or to designate their lunch hour or break time for these activities.

• 20 percent of employers have fired someone for using the Internet for non-work related activities.

• 5 percent of employers have fired someone for holiday shopping online at work.

• Half of employers (50 percent) block employees from accessing certain Web sites while at work.

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Search Engines Get

Social

• In a deal announced just hours after

Microsoft debuted integration of "tweets"

into Bing, Google said it would also be

indexing real-time Twitter messages in

search results.

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Town Requires Job Seekers to

Reveal Social Media Passwords

• http://www.abajournal.com/news/town_requires_job_see

kers_to_reveal_social_media_passwords

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Guidelines wanted for teachers

on Facebook

• "I think Facebook is too open to

interpretation and too many things can

happen — photos of people in

inappropriate situations, teachers as

well as students," said Faith Mellenger.

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Determining Online Presence

http://www.onlineidcalculator.com/index.php

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Creating/Manipulating your online

Presence

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Building a Website

• http://www.hollywoodcelebgossips.com/20

09/03/14/wwmyhusbandneedsajobcom-

robin-stearnss-website-to-help-husband-

mike-stearns-to-find-a-job/

• http://www.yola.com/

• http://www.weebly.com/

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• Buy a personal domain name For a year,

it only costs about $9. You can search for

and buy domain names at

www.godaddy.com. Even if you aren‟t

ready for their own Web site, buying a

domain name is like buying a plot of land:

You own it so that when you are ready,

you can build on it.

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Building a Blog

• http://www.posterous.com/

• http://www.twittershouldhireme.com/

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Creating a Linkedin Profile

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzT3JVUGUzM&feature=related

• Optimize your profile with keywords relevant to your job field (so you‟re found in searches)

• Join groups- alumni, professional groups with in your job fields or interests, or start your own group

• Answer questions to show your expertise in your career field

• Identify who will be most helpful in your job search and how they are connected to where you would like to work.

• Align your status updates with your blog, twitter account and or facebook and create content relevant to your career field

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• LinkedIn announced a new beta feature

this week, Real-Time Profile Matches,

intended to help make it easier for users to

find the right jobs, and for hiring

companies to find the right talent.

• http://www.cio.com/article/588013/LinkedI

n_Quick_Tip_New_Free_Tool_Matches_U

sers_to_Job_Openings

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Video Resume

• What's you‟re opinion on the Video

Resume below

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NApAlP

H4hqA

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Regardless of what you thought

look again closely

what do you have that‟s been viewed

32,391 times?

Imagine if it was well done?

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• Potential employers want to see one thing

above all else:

PROOF OF YOUR SKILLS

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• If you're looking for innovators, people

who are going to create things that

have never been created before or

solve problems that haven't been

solved, you can't look at their resumes

and find evidence that they've

accomplished what you want them to

accomplish. It hasn't been done, so it's

not going to be on their resumes

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Develop a portfolio post it online

• http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/18-sources-of-personal-branding-credibility

• http://www.visualcv.com/www/indexc.html

• http://www.resumebucket.com/faq/

• http://jefffisherlogomotives.blogspot.com/2008/06/prepare-for-any-marketing-or-promotion.html

• http://www.twittershouldhireme.com/

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Develop a Personal Marketing Plan

• http://www.winnperformance.com/docume

nts/SamplePersonalMarketingPlan.pdf

• http://www.employmentdigest.net/2009/08/

when-to-introduce-your-30-60-90-day-

plan-to-a-hiring-manager

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JOIN associations

• There is an association for

everything. If you want to meet themovers and shakers directly, you haveto become a joiner.

www.Upcoming.com

www.Meetup.com

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Continual Development

How much do you read

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Do you have an RSS Feed

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=rss+in+plain+english

&aq=2&oq=rss

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Blogs RSS Feeds

• www.Alltop.com

• Comment on Blog Posts

http://www.disqus.com/

• Pick strategic “targets” to comment

• Drop a highly-relevant links

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DO YOU HAVE A

• Visual Resume

http://www.slideshare.net/saranyan/visualresume

Photo Sharing

• www.FLICKR.com

• www.facebook.com

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Ning.com

• Discover or create new social networks for

your interests and passions

• http://www.thefeng.org/

• http://tipd.com/

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• In the World According to Twitter, giving away access to information rewards the giver by building followers. The more followers, the more information comes to the giver to distribute, which in turn builds more followers. The process cannot be commanded or controlled; followers opt in and out as they choose. The results are transparent and purely quantitative; network size is all that matters. Networks of this sort are self-organizing and democratic but without any collective interaction.

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• Twitter is fast becoming a „search engine

for conversations‟ » Penny Power

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Twitter trumps New York Times,

Wall Street Journal

• In April, according to Compete, Twitter

drew 19.4 million unique visitors, while

NYTimes.com drew 15.6 million and

WSJ.com drew 12.2 million.

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How Can I Use it in My Job Search

1)Claim your name

2)Upload a Professional Head Shot

3)Customize your Background www.twitbacks.com

http://www.webdesignerhelp.co.uk/index.php/2009/04/over-30-creative-twitter-profile-backgrounds/

4)Tweet useful information only publish posts that add value to your followers (time spent per day: 5 minutes) The best way to engage your Twitter audience is by sharing fun, useful, or witty advice that will help them solve their problems. It‟s fast to come up with these –use quotes, facts from your industry, great pictures, ideas on other people they can follow.

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4 Steps to Find Your Ideal Job on

Twitter

• http://blog.brand-yourself.com/2009/4-

steps-to-find-your-ideal-job-on-twitter/

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How do I use twitter for the Job

search• Step 1: Identify Your Brand’s Keywords

• Do a search on yourself and see what comes up. You may find someone with your name has coveted the top fold. From there, identify what keywords you can use to differentiate yourself from this person. Should you be using your full name? Your middle initial? Your affiliation with an organization or a type of work? Figure out how you want people to find you so you can build your brand around these keywords.

• Step 2: Become a Blog Reader & Commenter

• Begin reading career-related content on blogs for 10 minutes daily. This will help you stay-up-to date and in-the-know. Then, start posting thoughtful, well-written, professional comments on these blogs related to your field of interest. Don‟t know where to find these blogs? Go to www.AllTop.com –they are like a magazine rack of online blogs. There, you‟ll be able to find dozens of blogs related to your career aspirations so that you can post comments to enhance your credibility as a knowledgeable member of your field/industry. Better still, if you are reading this, you are on a blog RIGHT NOW. So, take 2 extra minutes to post a comment and you‟ll be on your way.

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• To keep the process simple, batch your tips and advice. I use www.TweetLater.com to schedule my timeless tweets, and space them out evenly throughout the day. HINT: The most active Twitter days are Monday through Wednesday and the peak Twitter times are early afternoon (noon, specifically). You could spend 25-35 minutes a week writing advice or 5 minutes a day to take advantage of this form of engagement.

• Answer questions (time spent per day: 5 minutes)

• I use Twitter‟s search engine to find questions in my area of expertise. Let‟s say I wanted to brand myself as an MBA Application Consultant. I would use the search term “GMAT ?”

• You can subscribe to any search terms you want via RSS by using “Feed for this Query” on the right sidebar. It‟s really important to choose your queries wisely. The trick is to a) pick a search term that is very specific and b) include the question mark – this particular query only produces two to three items per day.

30-Minute Brand Building for Twitter | Personal Branding Blog

personalbrandingblog.com/30-minute-brand-building-for-twitter/

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RT or Retweet

• One of the greatest aspects of Twitter is how quickly word of mouth spreads globally. If a user thinks another users tweet is interesting, they may choose to retweet what they say. In this instance, the member will repeat what the twitter user said. Example: “Did Jeremiah got a doctorate in Twitter?” if a second user sees this and agrees, they will echo it back in the following way: “Retweet: @Jowyang Did Jeremiah got a doctorate in Twitter?”. In a shortened version, they may also use RT, an abbreviated version of Retweet, it would go like this: “RT: Did Jeremiah got a doctorate in Twitter?”. And in case you‟re wondering, no I didn‟t get a doctorate in Twitter, but I did get my undergrad in Twitter. BT a Bachelors of Twittering.

30-Minute Brand Building for Twitter |

Personal Branding Blog

personalbrandingblog.com/30-minute-

brand-building-for-twitter/

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TwitterJobSearch.com

• Leverage Twitter for Your Job Search http://short.to/hi7o

• http://twtjobs.com/ resume for twitter

• http://www.twibes.com/

• www.twellow.com

• 5 Methods I Used To Get A Job Through Twitter

• http://www.twitip.com/5-methods-i-used-to-get-a-job-through-twitter/

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• By company

• @attjobs – Jobs at AT&T@mtvnetworksjobs - Jobs at MTV@TRCareers – Jobs from Thomson Reuters

• By field

• @alldevjobs - Developer jobs@ArtDirectorJobs – Art director jobs@cwjobs - Copywriter jobs@jobsinhiphop – Jobs in Hip-Hop@journalism_jobs - Jobs in journalism@juicyjobs – Green jobs@libgig_jobs - Library Jobs@mediabistrojobs - Media job listings from mediabistro.com@medical_jobs - Medical jobs@media_pros – Jobs for media professionals@narmsjobs – Retail marketing jobs@PRSAjobcenter – Jobs in public relations, communications and marketing@reflectx - Physical Therapy jobs@seojobs - SEO job listings@socialmediajob - Jobs in social media@travelmaxallied - Healthcare jobs@travelnursejob - Jobs for traveling nurses@usmusicjobs - US Music Jobs@web_design_jobs - Web design and other graphics jobs

Top 50 Employers Recruiting on

Twitterhttp://snipr.com/kv05d

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• By job type

• @findinternships – Internships and entry level jobs for college students@freelance_jobs – Freelance jobs@heatherhuhman – Entry level jobs and internships@Project4Hire – Freelance and temporary jobs@jewish_jobs - Jewish job listings

• By region

• @MyBristolJobs – Job listings from mybristoljobs.co.uk@chicagowebjobs – Web-related jobs in Chicago@ChicagoTechJobs – Technology jobs in the greater Chicago area@ITJobsLondon – IT jobs in London@ITJobsSydney – IT jobs in Sydney, Australia@JobsBoston - Jobs in the greater Boston area@jobshawaii – Jobs in Hawaii@NewYorkTechJobs – Technology jobs in the greater New York area@PDXJobs – Jobs in Portland, Oregon@sdjobs - San Diego technology jobs

• @sfmobilejobs – Mobile Web and Digital Media jobs in Silicon Valley@mtltweetjobs - PR/marketing/social media/tech jobs in Montreal@TopJobsInLondon - Top jobs in London, UK@web20jobs - UK-based web 2.0 jobs

• General

• @JobAngels – Helping the unemployed find jobs@indeed - One search. All jobs@jobshouts – General job postings@simplyhired - Job search site

• @StartUpHire – Jobs at VC backed companies@twithire - Job board service

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CEO‟s that use Twitter

• http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/05/

0508_ceos_who_twitter/

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/

• Find your contacts within an organization

• Find the Agency profile

• Find people that work within the agency

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• has 276 million unique monthly

visitors--double the traffic of any of the Big Four,

including Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL

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• Facebook Chat: 1 Billion Messages Sent

Per Day

• Facebook users send an average of 4-5

IMs a day (there are a little over 200

million Facebook users).

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Metcalf‟s Law N(n-1)/2

• quantifying the "value" of a

network

• 20(20-1)/2

• 190

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Leverage

Hi ,

My name is _____ and I am very interested in working for the _______. I recently applied to the position of ___________ at _____ and noticed that you currently work there.

I would like to schedule a time when we can chat on the phone about your experiences at __________ and how I can best prepare myself to work there.

I am very confident that I can bring unique value to your company and add to the amazing company culture.

I am available Friday afternoon, Saturday all day, and Monday all day to chat on the phone. My number __________.

Thank you very much and I look forward to connecting.

All the best,

How to get an interview for a position you’re

under qualified for

Posted April 30th, 2009 by JunLoayza

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Leverage the referral you have

Hi ______,

My name is ____ and I was referred by ______ to speak with you about my interest in working for _______. I feel that my abilities and experience make me the perfect candidate for your ___________ at __________.

My experiences make me qualified for this position because I have been able to develop __________. I have a passion for ______ and learning new _____. I know that _____ would be the perfect place where I could implement my passions and watch them grow as well. I am particularly interested in _____because I have a close relationship with ________, who is the _____at _____. I had the opportunity to see the company culture and I fell in love with the people and atmosphere of the company.

I believe that I have the qualities that make a successful _______: I enjoy working in teams and excel in working with people, I am very detailed oriented and have excelled in promoting companies using online social media tools, and I am an excellent multi-tasker.

I would enjoy speaking to you further about the possibility of a position at ________. Thank you very much for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

How to get an interview for a

position you’re under qualified for

Posted April 30th, 2009 by JunLoayza

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• A Ridiculous(good) list of Social Media

Policies

• http://marcmeyer.posterous.com/a-

ridciculous-list-of-social-media-policies