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Students, Here's How to Kick-Start Your Personal Brand Online. The most beneficial action young job seekers can take while still in school is to pay attention to what's happening online.

Man purchases space on digital billboard to help wife land a job. 5 Essential Tips To Make Your Social Profiles Resume-Ready. The Innovation That Could Make Most Job Interviews Obsolete. Unconventional Career Tips For Recent Grads. What Employers Are Thinking When They Look At Your Facebook Page. 5 Ways Social Media Is Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition. Sajjad Masud is co-founder & CEO of Simplicant, a cloud-based social recruiting platform transforming talent acquisition and making enterprise-level recruiting technology accessible to companies of all sizes.

Connect with Sajjad and the Simplicant team on Twitter and Facebook. The way we communicate with each other has evolved rapidly over the last decade. Social media has further intensified the departure from traditional communication methods to redefine how people and businesses interact with each other. In fact, more than half of companies on social media fail to have a social media strategy and in doing so, risk ignoring an increasingly dynamic and expanding audience. Should You Freelance After Graduation? Recruiters Say: Avoid LinkedIn At Your Peril. How Your Social Media Profile Could Make Or Break Your Next Job Opportunity.

The Cloud Will Kill The Resume, And That’s a Good Thing. Editor’s note: Chris Rickborn is the COO and co-founder of Unrabble, a hiring software solution for small- to medium-sized businesses, especially startups.

You can follow Unrabble at @unrabble. I was recently going through an old banker’s box that I packed up years ago while I was cleaning out my office. There was a Palm Pilot, a mini cassette recorder, and even a stack of floppy disks. It was like a time capsule of obsolete technology. All I needed were a few Polaroid pictures and a beeper to make my time travel complete. Every gadget I found in that box had evolved or been replaced by some new innovation. It baffles me how the lifecycle of so many products and business processes can be extremely short and are so easily disrupted by innovation, yet an individual’s resume is still a one or two page document. Maybe the answer is that the change is actually underway but we just don’t realize it’s happening.

I think this indicates a few realities. Everything to Teach Your Employees About Social Media. Who needs an expensive social media consultant when you can train your employees in Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn best practices yourself?

This Mindflash infographic breaks down the types of social media users you'll find in your company — the digital native, savvy technologist, reluctant user, digital newby and digital contrarian — and how to approach training each of them. This guide also highlights an important fact: 76% of companies do not have a clearly defined social media policy. Whether or not you have an explicit policy, make sure you're aware of the way everyone in your company represents your brand.

8 Job Search Tips From the Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Early on in The Start-up of You, Reid Hoffman takes on the sacred cow of career advice books, making it clear that the timeworn exhortations of What Color is Your Parachute?

Won't fly in this economy. "That's the wrong question," Hoffman, the co-founder and chairman of LinkedIn writes (with the help of coauthor Ben Casnocha). "What you should be asking yourself is whether your parachute can keep you aloft in changing conditions. " Hence the central conceit of the book. Just as Detroit's dinosaurs fell victim to hubris and an inability to adapt, so will you, dear career seeker, if you don't mimic the nimble startups of Silicon Valley. 1. How To Negotiate Your Salary. 7 Cool Resumes We Found On Pinterest. No More Résumés, Say Some Firms. San Francisco Bay Area, Calif. - Jacquelyn Smith. Tech Hiring Trends 2012: What You Need to Know [INFOGRAPHIC] Job trend reports are pointing to big things for the tech industry, including lots of openings and opportunities for growth.

Here's the lowdown on tech hiring trends. In 2012, there will be increased demand for mobile app developers, data warehouse analysts and user experience designers. Consider the number of people companies will need to hire to build mobile applications across platforms for Apple products, Android and other smartphones. We have previously reported that the smartphone app downloads are projected to grow from 10.9 billion in 2010 to 76.9 billion in 2014. SEE ALSO: Are Cover Letters Still Relevant For Social Media and Tech Jobs? Executive vice president of Acquity Group Jim Newman, whose team created the infographic below, believes the current tech hiring trends shows that top tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft are hiring like crazy despite the global economic downturn. How To Avoid Hiring The Wrong Person For Your Startup. Chris Rickborn is the COO and co-founder for Unrabble, a cloud-computing hiring software company that helps busy startups make great hires.

In a startup, hiring a new employee can be a business-changing event. The smaller the organization, the more impact each employee has on its ultimate success.