LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook are just three of the many online venues to network. As a savvy job hunter has already registered to one or many of these social media tools.
The questions then are: How are you using social media in your job hunting efforts? Are these tools getting you leads and interviews? Or are you spending hours chatting endlessly losing sight of your goal: to secure a job interview?
Click on this link to review the article by the examiner.com that provides a comprehensive summary (easy read) of the major social media tools available and possible ways that they could help you land of a job interview.
Two of take-aways from the article:
- You must know what message you want to convey through these media. Get your story, or elevator pitch, straight. Make sure you clearly describe what kind of value you could bring to your potential employer. No one want to hear that you need a job. THey want to know how you can help them.
- You must become a patient observer of the medium you are in and identify key players, decision makers and emerging trends being discussed. If you are looking to connect with someone in particular through social, it will help if you get to know them a bit better before approaching them.
