Looking for work? Do you love social networking? You can combine this passion to achieve your goal. Many headhunters investigate the candidates via the Internet. In search engines, your social networking profiles will appear in the first rankings, because they are indexed quickly.
If you want to exploit social networks as a tool to get the job you
dream, the social media expert, Linda Coles, gives you 10 tips to find a
job through Facebook and LinkedIn.
A. - Keep your private profile, if only temporarily: make sure your
publications and your personal data can only be seen by your friends. You would not want the compromising photos were seen by your employers.
2. - Use Facebook as a Business Page: used Facebook to show your professional side.
The beauty of this network is that it appears in the Google search
engine and if your employer seeking information from you through the
network, this page will be ranked among the top places, as Facebook is
indexed with quickly.
3. - Manage your Facebook page as a blog: your post on Facebook used to publish your views on the industry that you do. For example, if you do the marketing you can post your opinion on the campaign of a particular brand. Remember that your post can add videos, photos and links of interest.
4. - Promote your site through your friends ask your contacts on
Facebook that you recommend as a friend of people who may be interested
in your job profile and support you to get the job you have searched
both.
5. - Consider using Facebook Ads service: for a few dollars you could
be featured in the profiles of people who play a key role in your job
search. In these areas you can say what you like about yourself and you can "sell" your human talent.
6. - Measure and reorients: advertise on Facebook allows you to get statistics of your campaign. Based on the results can determine whether to redirect the focus of your campaign to get a job.
7. - If you're on LinkedIn believes, is your "professional header" says what you really are? Tests whether the way you present your profile tells the truth about the professional you are.
Remember that you have 120 characters to tell the world what you do,
for example, "I've been writing advice for people and businesses use
social media better." Be creative!
8. - Use your three Hot Links: rather than use the standard "my
website" uses "other" and includes a link to your business profile or
blog. Think you're doing a job of marketing to promote your personal brand.
9. - Enter your name in the sections of the working group: anyone can
advertise their job in any of the groups to which they belong, but why
not the other way around? Why not run an ad in the jobs section in the groups you are a member, indicating which is the job you're looking for?
10. - Add URL of Facebook and LinkedIn to your email signature. So you facilitarás to headhunters find you on social networks and know who you are and what you do.
He thinks that the results of these actions will not be immediate, and
possibly going to make many mistakes when managing your profiles to give
them a more attractive professionally. Do not worry, people learn by trial and error, it is important that you try, no doubt will give good results.
