Great Slideshow

I found a slideshow about social media in the job search and I can honestly say this slideshow basically states everything you should know. I wish I had found it sooner but here it is! Take a look.

SlideShow Leveraging Social Media

5 Social Media tips for Scoring Your Next Job

Hey everyone. Ill post a link that you should look at and take a close read. It was written by the co-founder and CEO of Venturocket, Marc Hoag. He had 5 valuable tips for your social media pages. One message that he said was not to have your pages reflect the exact same vision of what they get from your resume. Companies want to see someone that stands out but isn't throwing out profanity or complaining of how hungover they are from the weekend that was. Show some colour but have discretion.

Marc Hoag's 5 Tips

Companies Thriving Using Social Media

Hey everyone. I'm posting a link to a website showing a few companies that have successfully used social media to better their business. Social media is taking over. However, networking through social media should not get in the way of networking in person. That will ALWAYS be important.

Companies Using Social Media

The Career Doctor

The "Career Doctor" has more information for you as he answers a girls question of whether using social media for employment is the way to go. I agree with his answer the more I research these subjects and the more I begin to stress about looking for jobs. The last 6 weeks I had begun searching for jobs through my LinkedIn account and through other social media sites. It has absolutely given me many more opportunities to apply to companies that I would have otherwise not known existed. 

The Career Doctor

Statistics You Cannot Ignore

Hey everyone. I was going through some informative websites and I stumbled across an image that I thought was pretty loud. Take a look! I know that it's about 2011 statistics but it's still very interesting.

Statistics Picture

Success Story

Hey everyone. Here is a good story about a man who was laid off twice in a year. He was a Boston University MBA Alumni. He decided to write a book about social media once he was laid off and is now very successful in the business world.

Author of Job Searching With Social Media - For Dummies

Forbes Magazine

Forbes Magazine published an article listing 5 ways for you to use social media in the job search based on the 2012 job market. These are tips to help you put yourself ahead of the game compared to other applicants.

It seems quite obvious that you would want to monitor what pictures on your social media pages are available to the public. Yet everyday there are people complaining on blogs from all over the world about how they didn't get a job after internet background checks.

Forbes Magazine Article By Todd Wilms. December 22, 2011

Tips for University Students

Here is some very good advice on Social Media sites. It lists certain things you should take into account if you have accounts in social media like display pictures, personal information, etc.

University of Saskatchewan Tips on Social Media Pages

Importance of LinkedIn

If you have not created a LinkedIn Account already, this link I'm posting will convince you to do so. LinkedIn is becoming one of the most-used business networking sites in the world. When you meet business executives who are older than your parents and they are using this to network, so should you.

Social Technology Review - Robin Wilding, March 2011

More Employers Use Social Networks to Check Out Applicants

This is a very interesting article from the New York Times. There are some shocking statistics from 2009 showing that around 45% of employers, which is double the percentage than the year prior, are using social networking sites to screen possible job candidates.
Maybe it's time to revisit your tagged photos on your pages!        

New York Times Article Written by Jenna Wortham, 2009

Welcome!

Hello everyone!

Thank you for checking up on this blog. This blog will be about how using social media can help or hurt you on your journey of finding a career. Since technology and social media have advanced so rapidly over the past few years, we all realize how powerful these public pages can become. You would be hard pressed to find anyone without either a Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or Linked In account. Many people have all of these! So with that being said, throughout the next few months I will be posting information about how these forms of social media are affecting people in the workplace. I encourage and appreciate feedback and responses to any posts.
*YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO UNDERESTIMATE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS ISSUE.*