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I took my brother to Career Sherpa’s Employment Club meeting last night. She walked through her presentation on Using Social Media in Your Job Search. This made me feel guilty, because I was working on an update for this same subject. So – here it is. This goes into a lot more detail this time [...]

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Just read the latest from Penelope Trunk. Do you know who is using social media? Gen X. The average Twitter user is in their 30s. The median age of LinkedIn is 40. The majority of people who are joining Facebook right now are over 35. This is because Gen X wants to meet new people [...]

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Great article from McKinsey Quarterly “When Job Seekers Invade Facebook”. (You will have to register). With the apocalypse upon us, we are seeing a huge rush to “network” via the social networking tools of the day. I love this quote from the article: “There are, of course, powerful economic reasons behind the trend. As sociologist [...]

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Excellent and relevant post from Scoble on socially networking yourself when you are out of work. Clean your facebook contacts. No one cares where you went to lunch. stop twittering about it. blog about what you know

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It is always nice to be validated. An article from September 26 at The New York Times states “Job Hunting Is, And Isn’t What It Used to Be.” The article states pretty clearly for anyone who did not receive the memo that job boards are a waste of time. Your odds of finding meaningful employment [...]

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Gary Gygax died last week. For those of you that don’t know, Mr. Gygax was the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons. Yes. Here I go again. Adam Rogers had a great op-ed piece in the Sunday New York Times. Rogers theorizes that Gygax “constructed the social and intellectual structure of our world.” He is relevant [...]

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Oy. Now I need a Facebook profile? According to Neil Patel, yes. I caught the Use Facebook as a Marketing Tool link from Lifehacker. This took me to Patel’s Quick Sprout blog and the full post: Build a Facebook Profile You Can Be Proud Of. Facebook has opened itself up to the masses. Now anyone [...]

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