Social Media Marketing

Job Hacking: Do you know the 2 best ways to stand out?

Apartment Therapy New York | Reveal Ottoman by Keith KaminskiDesign Showcase 2009
If you know me, and you know who you are, you also know that I love furniture and great interior design. Keith Kaminski’s design for a coffee table that converts into an ottoman with storage to conceal remotes, magazines and stuff like that empty [...]

How Hashtags are Remaking Conversations on Twitter – NYTimes.com
The always enjoyable Virginia Heffernan wrote a column this week on how hashtags are changing the conversations on Twitter.
Hashtags are those little keywords prepended with a pound sign – like in this blog post’s title.
They are the subjective, descriptive little tags added by the tweeter as a [...]

Common Craft’s cute video that explains how social media is like everyone making and promoting their own brand of ice cream

10 Ning Networks to Help You Land Your Next Job

Try out Twitter Job Search to find listings in your area. I am finding that there are jobs posted on Twitter that never make it to job boards of any kind.
Why?

Twitter has a smaller audience than job boards
Twitter is usually a more technically sophisticated group
Twitter is social media
Twitter’s free

TwitterJobSearch.com – Twitter Job Search [...]

Getting interviews is great but what do you do to make the interview great?

Recruitment: A broken and degrading process that needs to change « CEO Ideas
An intro to what sounds like a promising change in how to conduct your job search.
The entry has one thing right: submitting resumes to “Careers@Company.com” is the same as tossing them into a blackhole. There are too many others going that route, so [...]

Interview coaching is a perfect exercise to help you be on top of your game when you walk in the door to wow that interviewer. Don’t rely on what you’ve always done: be prepared for today’s interview styles.

MSN Careers – 5 Ways to Battle Job-Search Rejection
With the abundance of articles and tips series on which sites to use to find a job, how to use LinkedIn or Twitter, being a better networker and all the other advice columns, this article on dealing with rejection was a welcome change.
We are each facing challenges [...]