Most Popular Professional Nameplate Site: About.me. 28 Essential Facebook Timeline Resources. Facebook announced on its blog Tuesday that all users will have Timeline within the next few weeks, bringing a close to the gradual rollout process that began September 2011. Timeline changes the old Facebook profile from a list of your recent updates to a summary of your life since birth. Among its new features is a cover photo at the top of your profile and a timeline to which you can add life events not previously captured by Facebook. The new profile is thought to be one of Facebook's most extreme redesigns so far, redefining what a social networking profile can do.
Whether you've already switched to the new feature or you're baffled by the new look, read on for Mashable's roundup of Timeline resources to help you with the transition. 6 Ways to Score a Job Through Twitter. Twitter has become a great resource for just about anything, including jobs. From industry chats to Twitter accounts dedicated to posting vacancies, there are a ton of resources for landing a gig. We've already chronicled how to get a job through Facebook and YouTube, and now we're taking a look at the job hunting process on Twitter.
We spoke with nine Tweeters who have landed jobs through Twitter to get their top tips for success on the platform. Below you'll find a guide to their job hunt strategies on the microblogging service. If you've also been successful in finding a position via Twitter, let us know about your experience in the comments below. 1. Words to tweet by: You are what you tweet. Share links that are relevant to your followers, adding commentary to the latest industry news.
If your commentary on Twitter is interesting enough, you may have employers knocking on your door. Kate Ottavio, an account executive at PR agency Quinn & Co., had a similar experience. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags to Boost Your Job Search. About 300 to 500 jobs are posted on Twitter per minute, according to Carmen Hudson, CEO and co-founder of Tweetajob. With that many shared opportunities, the task of filtering information becomes daunting — that's why we have hashtags. They can help you focus on the tweets you want to see along with the ones you didn't even know existed. Hudson, whose company sends job tweets that match a job seeker’s location and career interests, says the numbers are true but come with a caveat. “Many of these jobs are duplicates, or from aggregators. It’s likely the number of real opportunities could be much lower. There is quite a bit of ‘job pollution’ on Twitter, because the job boards and many employers don’t target their job tweets.”
Nonetheless, the jobs are still there. Here are six hashtag categories that might be useful in a job search, along with some examples of what you could look for. General Job Search ClerkPBCOn a #jobhunt? Job Postings Chats Lindsay Goldner shared her experience: Resumes. 5 Social Media Tips for Scoring Your Next Job. Marc Hoag, CEO and co-founder of Venturocket, is a California-licensed attorney with an econ degree from UCLA and a strong background in math and science.
Marc's mission with Venturocket, first conceived nearly 10 years ago, is simple: to help make the world a more productive place. Unless you're fortunate enough to be deliriously happy with your professional life, the odds are high that you’ll be looking for a different job in the future. On the bright side, the fact that you’re reading this article means you know how to navigate the Internet — a point in your favor. So how can you use that ‘net savvy to most effectively court the employer of your dreams? Your cover letter and résumé may still be your opening gambit, but the life you lead online increases in relevance every day, especially as a resource for potential employers. Since social media presence will likely be investigated and considered prior to your next hire, you’re going to want to put your virtual house in order. 1. 3. 4. HOW TO: Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile for the Job Hunt. Dan Finnigan is CEO of Jobvite, a SaaS platform for the social web that companies use to find and hire people.
You can follow him on Twitter at @DanFinnigan and read his blog -- the Jobvite Blog. About 120 million people now use LinkedIn, and 1 million more join every week. But how many users have a professional profile that’s actually attracting interest from hiring companies? Research my company has conducted shows that 87% of companies use LinkedIn for recruiting, so it’s a good bet that your next employer will look for talent there. But how easy are you to find? With all those millions of profiles available, recruiters use specific search terms and network connections to narrow the number of prospects.
Here are some tips to maximize the likelihood a recruiter with the perfect job contacts you first. 1. The headline is one line of text that appears underneath your name and in search results. Your headline doesn’t have to include your job title, but it should be clear and concise. 2. Socialbreak.me - and your work gets done. 5 Clever Ways to Get a Job Using Social Media. Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0 and the founder of Millennial Branding, a full-service personal branding agency. He’s spoken about personal branding at Google, Harvard, Time Warner, IBM, and CitiGroup. Read his Personal Branding Blog for more information.
Social media is making it easier to find the right jobs, and for you to connect to the right people that can help you get those jobs. Many job seekers are still using traditional job search methods that are yielding poor results. But you don’t have to end up like these professionals! More and more companies are recruiting using social media, and 40% of young professionals are using social media to get jobs, reports Elance. 1. People get jobs through other people, not computers. 1. 2. People are starting to use mobile applications to see job openings near them and apply with just a few touches of an iPhone or Android. In 2009, I wrote a post for Mashable on the top iPhone job search applications. CareerBliss (Free). 3. 4. 5. About Quora. 25 Things Writers Should Know About Social Media. 1. The Devil’s Trident Social media has three essential prongs of activity: broadcast, rebroadcast, conversation.
This is true for everybody, not just writers, but it’s worth noting just the same. I say something or repeat something someone else said (broadcast/rebroadcast), and from that social seed-bed, conversation may arise. 2. Writers and other creative-types often seem to believe that they need to become someone different online, that they cannot be themselves lest they not find a publisher, not get work, not sell their book, not collect sexy groupies, etc. 3. You are not a brand. 4. Put the “social” in “social media.” 5. Having a blog, website, or online space where you establish an authorial “base camp” is a great thing. 6. Find different uses for different social media. 7.
Writers are content creators, and so it behooves us to share what we love. 8. The Internet is like hot dogs: it’s made of lips and assholes. 9. Connection, not conflict. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.