You may or may not have heard about #hirefriday. If I’m not mistaken, #hirefirday was started by Margo Rose with the intention of focusing on job seekers rather than job postings. Here’s the guidelines for hirefriday as written by Margo Rose. So if all goes well with HireFriday, job seekers will post information about themselves […]
Unemployed? Are you leveraging your network or just job hunting?
Let’s go back to 2005. I want to tell a tale of how my network helped me get to where I am today. I wasn’t always working in Social Media. For a while I was just an internet nerd with other ambitions. From 2000 – 2005 I was a waiter, and a student until 2003. […]
Don't Read This Post Unless You Want to Find a Job or Help Others
Social and (Job) Search(ing) Many of you have seen my post: How to: Find a job using RSS Feed. It’s available in a video walkthrough and originally as a text blog post. I feel that is one of the best posts I’ve ever put together because the value was clear; I want to help people […]
How to: Find a job using RSS Feed – Step by Step [Video]
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) I’m going to show you in this video how to create a job search dashboard using RSS. The idea is to reduce the amount of time you spend looking for jobs but increase the number of postings that you see. The video is about 12 minutes long. That’s a lot of […]
Using RSS to Job Hunt
So a little while back, when this recession became apparent to me and everyone else in the US, I was charged with the task of figuring out how to utilize ‘new’ technology to make the job-search process a little less painful. What I am going to blog about today is a workflow that I came […]