14 More Of The Coolest Résumés Ever. Critical Care Medical Professionals Group News. By Joshua Waldman With the rise of social media, online networking has become an essential requirement for finding the right job fast.
Yet there are still many job seekers either scared or confused by social media. Now more than ever, great networking can occur through meeting and engaging with people online, whether those are hiring managers or just info-interview sources. So don’t let this new technology keep you from finding your dream job. There are three myths about online networking that may be keeping you from truly embracing this opportunity to advance your career. Networking Myth 1: Online networking is a threat to “real” networking Actually, when done right, online networking can powerfully augment your in-person relationships. Further more, social media is a great way to stay up-to-date with what your contacts are doing, where they are working now, and even what they are thinking about.
Networking Myth 2: My personal information is at risk if I use social media. Watch what you say, Google is listening. “I am so wasted right n ow, I’m sooo calling in sick to work tomorrow!”
- Remember posting that comment on your friend’s Facebook wall ? You know, the friend with a lackadaisical attitude toward the latest Facebook privacy settings. Well, that comment may come back to haunt you thanks to Google. Technically, your comment would have been public all along, but now it’s just a little easier to find. How does this impact you? The moral of this story?
How to Job Hunt With a Strike Against You - Maryanne Peabody and Larry Stybel. By Maryanne Peabody and Larry Stybel | 11:43 AM November 8, 2011 On May 28, 2011, the Boston Globe reported that Carney Hospital President Bill Walczak fired its entire staff of 29 health care delivery employees from a 14-bed locked unit for troubled teens.
It appears that the hospital had violated patient safety in serious ways. Not all 29 employees were identified as having performed poorly. The president believed, however, that it was in the hospital’s best interest to staff the unit from ground zero. Given the negative publicity surrounding lack of patient safety, Carney Hospital became an albatross company — a company with a negative reputation in the market. Addressing the Albatross in the Room Recruiters have a simple way of dealing with albatross job candidates: avoid them. So, what’s a job seeker from an albatross company to do? Whether they address it with you directly or not, you can be sure that it’s exactly what hiring authorities are thinking. Useful Interview Tactics. Social Media and Word-of-Mouth Advertising In a Digital Age. Most of us understand the importance of word-of-mouth advertising to our business.
We know that spending money on marketing a service or product that has a bad reputation with consumers, and not doing anything about it, is similar to burning money. People will only be reminded of the problems and why they don’t want to deal with us. Conversely, a good reputation, usually the result of good or better yet great customer service plus consistently delivering on our promises when it comes to the products and/or services we sell, increases the power of marketing initiatives we undertake. What our customers think about us and share with others (word-of-mouth) usually hastens our demise or accelerates our growth.
One of the most cost-effective marketing tools around for cultivating and growing word-of-mouth advertising is social media. In many ways, this makes the scenario sound much worse than it is. Why Your Next Hire Should Be Like Lisbeth Salander. For anyone who hasn't read the Stieg Larsson book, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, or seen the film, the main character, Lisbeth Salander is incredibly bright, talented, and enterprising—and also totally covered in tattoos and piercings.
The fact that Lisbeth's character has piercings and tattoos is meant to show her as different and weird, and outside the mainstream. I wonder, however, if that depiction of people with body art is really correct in this day and age. Statistics gathered in a survey by Northwestern University showed as early as 2006 that 25% of the population aged 18 to 50 had at least one tattoo.
This number increased to 36% when looking at the youth population aged 18 to 29, the next generation to enter the workplace. One can only assume the number is far greater in 2011. People with body art are generally not only creative, but also bold, and often decisive.