Showing posts with label career. Show all posts
Showing posts with label career. Show all posts

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Facebook Job Hunt Tips on Youtube

Funny, you can find how to use facebook to hunt job in Youtube.

1.Facebook and Your Job Search

2.How to get a design job at facebook 101 with Rob Goodlatte

3.Job Talk: Social Networking Edition

4.How Facebook Can Help In Your Career Search

5.MYSPACE FACEBOOK: Employers Are Watching

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Jobfox- Get hunted!

Jobfox is the inspiration of Rob McGovern, who was the Founder and former Chairman and CEO of CareerBuilder.com.   As it claims,  Jobfox is a job matching site.  Recently, Jobfox is named a Red Herring 100 Award Finalist, as it's said to be leading the next wave of innovation.

To experienced, create your resume for free, Jobfox then will match you to the jobs- which I think it's something like Jobster, but Jobfox seems to be more professional and direct to the target, but without video resume, without social networking.  You can check sample profile here.

Instead, Jobfox help you to create a flash-based Experience Map, which recruiters may love- intuitionistic and convenient.  Recruiter and you can easily check your skills, education and working experiences.

My work type picture can make the employers know whether you are his target, both people type and task type.  As Jobfox describe:

Transformer - Transactor
Description: Transformers combine interpersonal sensitivity with powerful social networks and definite leadership impact. Transactors combine thoughtful analysis with the driven pursuit of goals. They enjoy challenges and can be relied upon to deliver results.

By well defining and branding yourself  in Jobfox, employers are happy to hunt you!  Save time.  However, Jobfox can't let you connect to employers, you don't know who will you contact.  What you do is only waiting... may flaw, but not a big problem.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

10+ Social Networking Sites for Job Hunting

According to University of Notre Dame, Approximately 70% of all jobs are found through networking! At least 50% of the jobs that are filled are never advertised, most career counseling professionals estimate. So how do people find out about these opportunities? Current employees will often tell their networking associate when a position is opening and/or help those associates get interviews. With this statistic in mind you can see how valuable this step in your job search is.

However, many people don't know where to find his/her lucky when he/she want to change his work, especially when he/she job - hop with industry transition. You know, I know little people in my target job(may new industry, category or company), but how could I get hired? How could I find my right referrer? Thanks to Web 2.0, thanks to social networking sites(click here to origin), we can easily find and connect to the future.

Since 2004, tens of thousands of companies piling in to social networking space. We’ve picked out more than 10 that should help job seekers get ahead:

General Network:

  1. Myspace- Largest SNS, music, movie job like.
  2. Facebook- Second largest SNS, many professions are gather here.
  3. FriendSter-Friendster is a leading global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends.
  4. Yahoo! 360°- For people interested in the same topic.
  5. Ning- Create Your Own Social Network for Anything, present your skills here.

Job Hunt Network:

  1. Jobster- Build career network and get found by employers.
  2. Jobirn- Build professional job referral network, instant response from company employees and recruiters.
  3. Alumwire- Real-time on-line career fairs where recruiters are matched with an alumni network.
  4. Yahoo! Kickstart- the professional network that connects college students with alumni and professinals, owned by Yahoo!.
  5. Zubka- Based in the UK, find jobs for yourself and earn money for referring friends to other jobs.
  6. WhoToTalkTo- The first personal job referral exchange.

Business Network:

  1. LinkedIn- Professional business network, 20M+ people varies from IT professional to student, cover almost every function.
  2. Plaxo- Another "LinkedIn", own by Comcast.
  3. Xing- relationships for the world’s business professionals.
  4. Twitter- Microblog, could chat and search jobs here. Many recruiters gather here.