How Twitter Can Serve as a Job Search Tool

Although Twitter messages are short and snappy, the uses of the micro-blogging site are seemingly endless. You can find accounts for celebrities or news sites or ones dedicated completely to corny jokes. But as a job seeker, you may not be using the social networking site to its full potential in your job search, so here are some tips for how to do so.

Make sure you maintain an active presence on the site

Tweet things that are meaningful to both you and future employers, ensuring they are professional, grammatically correct, inoffensive and current. Tweet just enough but not every time you breathe, because you don’t want to become overbearing before you’ve even got your foot in the door. Once you ensure you are actively tweeting, you can begin to partake in your industry’s presence on the site.

How to Use Social media for your Job Interviews

It’s time to stop using social media searches to stalk your exes, former classmates and friends and put your CIA-style skills to better use – or at least put such activity to the side for a minute to use social media to help in your job-hunting prospects. Social media provides a wealth of information for your upcoming interviews, as you can comb through a company’s LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter pages to build a level of knowledge that makes prospective employers feel like you’re already part of the company.

7 Things College Seniors Need to Do Now

So you may have a few things to do on your senior year bucket list, but before you leave college, you should be thinking about things other than running through the quad naked or letting your mascot loose in the dorm. And these seven things you should be focused on are of the job-hunting, career-planning, life-after-loans variety.

How to Stand Out Online So Recruiters See You

It used to be a more common scenario that the applicant would search for a job, apply and then hope to hear back from someone – anyone – at any time. Now it seems to be more common that recruiters do the searching online and inquire with job candidates as to whether they would like to apply or interview for a job.

So in order to prepare for this, job seekers must consider how they stand out online to recruiters searching through hundreds of similar candidates or more. Start by having an Internet presence – and one you take ownership of – in the first place. And then you must go about managing it and making sure it is as positive as possible. After you’ve built that solid foundation, consider making a blog, YouTube channel or series of videos, or professionally focused Twitter account to make give yourself a voice in whatever field you’d like to pursue.

5 Steps to Pump up Your Profile and Bio Online

Anyone who has spent even a second online dating has seen someone write a message to this effect: “It’s hard to write about myself, but …” And it is. But you certainly don’t need to state the obvious in your online dating profile, nor do you need to say so in your professional online presence. No recruiter or company wants to see a bio about you that says “I don’t know how to promote myself” in so many words. They want to see something straight to the point and simple, yet creative and detailing as much as possible about your relevant experience in as few words as possible. This can be a daunting task for any job seeker, especially one who is not a good writer. So here’s five steps you can take to take your bio and profiles from blah to BAM!

1. Take a look at other bios to learn what works and what doesn’t.

While you should steal someone’s identity or bio, you can learn from what they wrote about what sounds good and what bothers you. You can learn from both the best and the worst in this area to craft an inspired, yet original bio for yourself.