Social Media Marketing

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

Networks Too Big for Their Own Good – NYTimes.com Interesting article with a great concluding sentence: “…they may be overlooking extremely talented individuals whose only weakness is that they don’t have the right name to drop.” This piquant statement expresses frustration that I felt along the way in my job search. I have fixed this [...]

The Best And Worst Cities To Look For A Job Seattle ranks 13 out of 15 with 1 job posting for every 3 people unemployed

The Search – Accentuating the Positive After a Layoff – NYTimes.com

How To Nail An Interview Hide a video camera, interview people for a job that doesn’t exist, for a company that doesn’t exist…all supposedly so you can learn how to interview better. Sure, the candidates (victims?) are textbook examples of what not to do at an interview. It’s simply sad how poor their answers and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

ABC News follows a family in Seattle who were impacted by recession after layoffs from Microsoft.