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To Know Thyself, Google Yourself, and Watch What You Say Online

July 6, 2011 By Kristen Jacoway 1 Comment

In December 2009, research commissioned by Microsoft found that 79% of U.S. hiring managers and job recruiters reviewed online information about potential job candidates. If someone Googled you, are they likely to find information that supports that personal brand for which you want to be known or not? Consider this-in this same study, they found… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Facebook, Job Search, Social Media, Twitter Tagged With: Career, Career Marketing, Digital Dirt, Employment, Facebook, Online Reputation, Social media, Social Networking, Twitter

To Friend or Not to Friend? What’s Your Policy on Social Media?

May 18, 2011 By Kristen Jacoway 2 Comments

In social media, it’s great to build your Google results by having profiles on social networking sites. I suggest to people that they pick 2-3 that they can update regularly. Which 2-3 should you pick? My general rule of thumb is to find out where your target audience (one we define through the personal branding… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Career Management, Facebook, Job Search, LinkedIn, Social Media, Twitter Tagged With: Business, Career, Career Management, Employment, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Online Communities, Social media, Social network, Twitter

Streamlining Your Time on Social Media

March 16, 2011 By Kristen Jacoway Leave a Comment

Are you wanting to find an automation tool to manage all your social networks. I’m going to discuss five such tools to help you streamline your time on social media. Hellotxt (http://hellotxt.com/) is what I term as a social networking aggregator. Hellotxt posts your status updates from web, mobile, SMS, email, or other 3rd party… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Career Management, Facebook, Job Search, LinkedIn, Social Media, Twitter Tagged With: Career, Employment, Facebook, HelloTxt, HootSuite - Social Media Dashboard, Job Search, LinkedIn, Social media, Social network, Social network service, Twitter

How to Add Compelling Tweets for Your Twitter Followers

March 11, 2011 By Kristen Jacoway 2 Comments

On Twitter, you want to make sure that you are providing value to your target audience (your followers) by giving them links to articles, blogs, etc. that give good, useful information. Tweeting is not about self-promotion (although you can use it this way from time to time). Most people agree that you want to tweet… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Career Management, Job Search, Social Media, Twitter Tagged With: Business, Career, Career Management, Employment, Google, google alert, Online Communities, RSS, Search Engines, Social network, Twitter

5 Quick Tips for Using Twitter in Your Job Search

February 2, 2011 By Kristen Jacoway Leave a Comment

Twitter is a growing platform for recruiters and employers to identify and recruit potential employees. Twitter is a great place to increase personal brand awareness by following these simple steps: 1. Complete your profile thoroughly! I cannot stress this point enough because, many times, I run across profiles with just the Twitter name and worse,… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Job Search, Twitter Tagged With: Employment, Job hunting, LinkedIn, Online Communities, Social Networking, TweetMyJobs, Twellow, Twitter

3 Twitter Tools to Accelerate Your Job Search

January 21, 2011 By Kristen Jacoway Leave a Comment

According to the 2010 JobVite Study, Twitter is one of the Top 3 social media sites for employers and recruiters to use to identify and source potential job candidates. Twitter is also a platform for someone in a job search to find job advice and job openings. My Top 3 Twitter Tools for a person… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Job Search, Social Media, Twitter Tagged With: Business, Career, Employment, Job Search, Networking, Social media, social media strategy, Social network, Twitter

How to Brand Your Email Signature

January 12, 2011 By Kristen Jacoway 2 Comments

Image via CrunchBase One of my colleagues, Maria Duron, posted information on Facebook about Wisestamp. You can go to http://www.wisestamp.com and download a free version for your Firefox browser. At this writing, it is not supported on all email platforms, but is supported on many of the major platforms (i.e. Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL, and… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Blogging, Career Management, Facebook, Job Search, LinkedIn, Personal Branding, Social Media, Twitter, YouTube Tagged With: AOL, Career Management, Personal Branding, RSS, Signature block, Social media, StumbleUpon, Twitter, WiseStamp, Yahoo Mail

Do You See What I See?

January 7, 2011 By Kristen Jacoway 1 Comment

Magnifiying Glass over Computer and Word Search

The overwhelming majority of employers and recruiters Google potential candidates and the more I poll audiences to see if they realize this possibility, the more I find that at least half of the attendees never considered this probability. Have you Googled your name? If not, put your name in quotations (e.g. “Kristen Jacoway”) and see… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Career Management, Job Search, LinkedIn, Personal Branding, Twitter, YouTube Tagged With: FriendFeed, Google, google alert, Online identity, Reputation, TweetBeep, YouTube

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