Social Media Marketing

Listing of monthly Seattle networking events I plan to attend. Join up with me if you want.

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 by [...]

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

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Summary of my notes from Cindy Pain’s presentation on getting the most out of LinkedIn, presented at the Seattle School for Visual Concepts on April 9, 2009.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]