Social Networking Throughout Your Career: What's All the Buzz About?
In this book, April M. Williams shows you how to make the most of the today's popular social networking tools to boost your professional image and how you can avoid career limiting mistakes.
* Learn which tools are most important today to reach your target audience
* See how you can use different tools based on your specific career stage
* Find out how to get big results from a small investment of your time
* Apply best practices to your time online to avoid social networking etiquette missteps
* Discover how to build a strong network to land your next job faster
* Identify ways to create your personal brand and communicate your unique selling proposition
* Understand trends in the marketplace so you are not caught unaware when you are considering a job change
It seems everyone is talking about social networking tools these days. Newspaper stories and daily comics make light of our “tweets”. We have all heard about social networking and many of us are using these sites regularly. In fact, these tools have sparked a communication revolution by changing how we talk with each other and the speed in which information travels.
If you are a professional looking for a new job, considering a career change or even planning to be in the job market for more than one more year, it is important to understand how to leverage the most common social networking tools. If you are not effectively managing your online network you will appear outdated and behind the times to current and future employers or recruiters. Currently, 80% of all companies use LinkedIn as their primary recruiting tool. That means if you are not using LinkedIn effectively, other candidates will be hired for the job, which may have been a perfect fit for you.
“Swim in the sea where hiring managers are fishing for you.”
April M. Williams
Hiring managers and recruiters actively use these sites because they are low cost and effective at identifying candidates. They have found there is no need to pay for expensive ads on job search boards when unlimited numbers of qualified candidates are easily accessible on social networking sites. They are fishing in a well-stocked sea of potential hires. Of course, you do not have to swim in these social networking sites. If you choose to stay out, remember that you will not be where the hiring managers are looking for you.
Here we will cover the special considerations for different career stages we may transition through over the course of our work life. Your use of the tools will be different when you are in college, employed by others or self-employed. You may even find yourself in more than one of these career stages at the same time. For example, you may be an employee at one company while at the same time, an entrepreneur running your own business. For each of these stages of your professional career, there are specific strategies you can use to make the most of social networking tools.
There are many different social networking tools available now and new applications appear each day. We will focus on today’s most popular tools and techniques to get the biggest bang from your social networking efforts. We will cover the common features among these sites as well as what makes each site unique and a good match for your specific career stage.
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Social Networking Throughout Your Career: What's All the Buzz About?
In this book, April M. Williams shows you how to make the most of the today's popular social networking tools to boost your professional image and how you can avoid career limiting mistakes.
* Learn which tools are most important today to reach your target audience
* See how you can use different tools based on your specific career stage
* Find out how to get big results from a small investment of your time
* Apply best practices to your time online to avoid social networking etiquette missteps
* Discover how to build a strong network to land your next job faster
* Identify ways to create your personal brand and communicate your unique selling proposition
* Understand trends in the marketplace so you are not caught unaware when you are considering a job change
It seems everyone is talking about social networking tools these days. Newspaper stories and daily comics make light of our “tweets”. We have all heard about social networking and many of us are using these sites regularly. In fact, these tools have sparked a communication revolution by changing how we talk with each other and the speed in which information travels.
If you are a professional looking for a new job, considering a career change or even planning to be in the job market for more than one more year, it is important to understand how to leverage the most common social networking tools. If you are not effectively managing your online network you will appear outdated and behind the times to current and future employers or recruiters. Currently, 80% of all companies use LinkedIn as their primary recruiting tool. That means if you are not using LinkedIn effectively, other candidates will be hired for the job, which may have been a perfect fit for you.
“Swim in the sea where hiring managers are fishing for you.”
April M. Williams
Hiring managers and recruiters actively use these sites because they are low cost and effective at identifying candidates. They have found there is no need to pay for expensive ads on job search boards when unlimited numbers of qualified candidates are easily accessible on social networking sites. They are fishing in a well-stocked sea of potential hires. Of course, you do not have to swim in these social networking sites. If you choose to stay out, remember that you will not be where the hiring managers are looking for you.
Here we will cover the special considerations for different career stages we may transition through over the course of our work life. Your use of the tools will be different when you are in college, employed by others or self-employed. You may even find yourself in more than one of these career stages at the same time. For example, you may be an employee at one company while at the same time, an entrepreneur running your own business. For each of these stages of your professional career, there are specific strategies you can use to make the most of social networking tools.
There are many different social networking tools available now and new applications appear each day. We will focus on today’s most popular tools and techniques to get the biggest bang from your social networking efforts. We will cover the common features among these sites as well as what makes each site unique and a good match for your specific career stage.
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