Facebook and Your Career
Facebook and Your Career
Excuse me. Come again? Are you kidding? What is the first thing you do when you want more
information about ANY topic? You Google it. Simply put, Facebook can influence your online brand, your digital reputation, your corporate identity, and ultimately your employability.
The most important thing you must embrace is that EMPLOYERS WILL ABSOLUTELY GOOGLE YOU. If you have a name, you are Googleble! If you have any social networking account, even if just one—you are definitely Googleble, which means your reputation is searchable. So, now that we established this, what do you do with that
information? Read more 
From The Ashes of VisualCV.com Grows Your Domain
What the closure of a site like VisualCV.com teaches us is that you MUST be at the helm of your digital brand’s development, navigation, and web hosting!
Have you heard? VisualCV.com will cease operations on 12/30/2011! This serves to reinforce what I have been advocating–you need to own your domain ASAP.com!
Everyone, especially careerist with defined personal brands and business owners should own their domain name and web hosting account. Even if you have no idea what to do with your domain name yet or where to host it—register it right away. Save it. You can work the development and hosting details out later.
All those job seekers who invested time in developing their self-marketing dossiers/resumes and uploaded to VisualCV.com will need to find a new home for their portfolios, pictures, references, CVs, and testimonials. Worse yet, the links they shared with possible employers and clients will soon be dead links! The connections they made via that site will need to be notified of their new home. Had they their own domain and web space– this would not be an issue. Read more
The Power of Your Tweets
The value of your tweets. Now that you have set up your Twitter account, what do you tweet in order to get closer to an actual job lead? There are many steps you can take to job search via Twitter but in this blog post I will focus on your tweets’ content because a great tweet can propel you closer to a job — a bad tweet can help you lose the job you currently have…AND QUICKLY!
Micro blogging as part of your job search toolkit. Project and strengthen your professionalism, brand, and expertise. If you provide valuable and spot-on content, you will gain influential followers. If your Twitter “followers” find your content useful and insightful, they may recommend others follow you or better yet (RT) re-tweet you, helping you expand your reach and networking possibilities.
Effective Web 2.0 Job Search
Part of the Career Collective monthly post series. Please see end of this post.
Social networking sites have dramatically changed the job search ‘game.’ LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, and Online Career Sites can help you– from the comfort of your home–discover new opportunities and tap into the hidden job market.
Why? Because networking, whether it is performed offline or online, is still the most effective way to find a job. However, building a brand, connecting with professionals in your field, and maintaining those relationships is not as easy as just setting up an account (don’t we wish!?). Adapting best practices so you cultivate a favorable online presence and earn the trust of those in a position to help you is a strategic endeavor. Read more
