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Social Media Week in NYC: Breaking Down the #smw140resume Event

Social Media Week 2013 Talks Twitter for the Job Search NBC. NPR. The Daily Muse. Mashable. AppNexus. WOW! What a lineup of organizations … all on one stage to serve up some job hunting advice with a twist of social media. And, in the audience – eager to devour their insights – many job seekers, minglers, employers and even some of our very [...]

February 25, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

2 Essential Career Connections for College Students

by Sandra Long

Make sure to follow these tips and others during our Using Social Media in Branding webinar on February 26th at 11AM over at Secrets of the Job Hunt. This blog post has been published from an earlier version on Secrets of the Job Hunt. It’s no secret that college students are connecting and sharing more and [...]

February 17, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Communicate With Speed: The Power and Opportunity of Twitter

by Ray_anne

Does Twitter Have You Stumped? Do You Tweet? Many of my friends do not tweet. Only a few members of my family do. It is not relevant to them - yet. So, I understand when scoffers scoff and skeptics skep. But I see and have benefited from the power and opportunity behind Twitter. Communicate and with speed. I was check daily [...]

February 7, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

5 New Ways to Recruit & Hire Using Twitter’s Improved Platform

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Learn more about Twitter by viewing our free Twitter for HR & Marketing webinar available on demand by clicking here. On a busy day, Twitter sees about 175 million tweets and about 300,000 new visitors on a daily basis. With numbers like these you’d be out of your mind not to consider Twitter as a [...]

January 22, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

TWITTER: The Promise and Smile of Better Business

by Ray_anne

Apparently, I am too feisty A former boss once pulled me aside to tell me that I was too feisty, that I needed to relax a bit, and not let other people get me all riled up. I have tried to calm this part of me down – this will be my lifelong battle, I fear. I become [...]

January 22, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

8 Tips on Using Twitter for Job-Hunting College Students

by shannonsmedstad

With a new spring semester starting, college students from across the U.S. are beginning the daunting tasks of job hunting. Before they know it they will be walking across the stage receiving their diploma. Most students are advised to start looking for a job well in advance of graduation. Are college students even using Twitter to search [...]

December 31, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Twitter, All Grown Up and Commanding Respect

by Ray_anne

Twitter, All grown up and demanding respect

Should manners and protocol apply to Twitter? After all, it’s just a throw away micro-blog, right? With over 55 Million tweets sent out every day, how can one rude or unthinkable tweet be traceable or even matter? Would anyone be bothered by racist comments or foul language meant for friends only? How easy it is to forget that anyone [...]

December 6, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Spam Factory, AKA LinkedIn

by Ray_anne

Nice so nice and clean anymore… Is LinkedIn considered social media? I think it wants to be… Because of the enormity of Facebook (over 1 Billion Registered Users) and the ever-increasing size of Twitter, LinkedIn may have slowed only a bit but remains a strong recruiter’s tool. Most of its functionality resembles Facebook, as of late. But has [...]

November 16, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Twitterocity = Mutual Respect Based in Reciprocal Information Exchange

by Ray_anne

Remember when Transparency was a buzz word? As time has gone by, the relevance of transparency has changed only slightly. We cannot really speak of transparency or authenticity without speaking of honesty, integrity, and accountability. It has become more important than ever. Social networking allows us each to connect with individuals we never would have otherwise. I receive [...]

November 2, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

10 Common Social Recruiting & Internet Sourcing Myths BUSTED

by Jonah Manning

Busted! Common Social Recruiting and Internet Sourcing Myths As a former dark horse of the recruiting world (I think we’re past those days though, right?), social recruiting and internet sourcing have had plenty of time to accumulate some big, big, myths. Myths some staffing leaders and recruiting managers have held onto because, well, it’s just [...]

October 21, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Job Seekers: Using Social Media for Job Hunting

by Ray_anne

For the Job Seeker Many employers have figured out how to use social media to improve their corporate and employment brand. If this is the case, then it makes perfect sense that this is where potential employees / job seekers can now go and should go to find out more about the culture and [...]

September 19, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

3 Ways to Build Your Twitter Recruitment Strategy

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Selecting a Recruiting Strategy for Twitter Twitter, in my opinion is the social network where recruiters and HR professionals should be. It’s the most open social network, and offers users the opportunity to connect with a new type of marketplace. For the recruiter, Twitter provides three very different and effective strategies to [...]

August 1, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Perception is Your Employer Brand – What are You Going to Do About It?

by Autumn McReynolds

As children, we’re often given guidance from our parents, teachers and mentors on how to act, how to live and how to succeed. This insight ultimately leads to the choices we make, how we treat others and how we see ourselves. One of the more common pieces of advice? Be yourself, and don’t worry about [...]

July 12, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Recruiting & Hiring on Twitter, Facebook, & LinkedIn by Country

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

As we enter a more globalized economy, managers and their scope of responsibility has also grown. And increasingly, manager’s are responsible for employees in more than one country than where they in fact live. The global economy presents a challenge for managers as they learn the cultural norms of their employees, employment laws, and expectations in this [...]

May 30, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Is Twitter a Toy or Business Tool? The Difference is You!

by Ray_anne

Every day we have an opportunity to make a difference. My weekend was filled with remembering, celebrating, deliberating, re-focusing and spending time with my family. Not necessarily in that order, but filled, nonetheless. But always in the back of my mind is my work. How to do it better, how to give more, how to [...]

May 29, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Automation vs. Organic & Real: what do we lose?

by Ray_anne

Satisfy, Justify, Mystify You’ve probably heard of Spotify. I have it on my iPhone, laptop, and all three of my desktops. I love it. It has changed the way I select, play, and listen to music. If you haven’t yet checked it out, you should. A new world of free music is just a click [...]

March 27, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Twitter: Communication and Geeks

by Ray_anne

I have written about Twitter often and not because I am an expert, but because I am an avid student and constantly seeking the best way to use the communication tools we have. It is interesting how quickly humans become accustomed to certain behavior and how easy it is to rile them up when that [...]