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Guest-hosting High Velocity Radio: Social Media + The Job Search

by Stephanie A. Lloyd on July 20, 2009

in Branding,I work in HR,I'm looking for a job,Job Boards,Management,Media,Networking,Radio,Recruiters,Resumes,Social Media,Tweetups,Video blogging,Workplace Issues

Today I guest-hosted High Velocity Radio for the second time while Stone Payton is enjoying a summer vacation with his family.

Today’s discussion with Jenny DeVaughn, Senior Talent Consultant with Talent Connections, and Miriam Salpeter, owner of Keppie Careers, centered around using social media for both recruiters and job-seekers.

Miriam Salpeter and Jenny DeVaughn in the Business Radio X studio

Click here to listen to the show.

Afterwards I interviewed Miriam and Jenny about their live radio experience.

After the show, Jenny, Miriam and I went to Flip Burger for a fabulous lunch out on their patio so we could further plot to take over the world more networking opportunities.

Stephanie, Miriam, and Jenny at Flip Burger in Atlanta

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Tagged as: Ask the recruiter, Entrepreneurial, I need a job, I work in HR, Stephanie A. Lloyd, The High Velocity Radio Show, Tweetups, Twitter

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It’s the Career Carnival Blogging Event hosted by @Animal!

by Stephanie A. Lloyd on June 26, 2009

in Branding,Career Carnival Blogging Event,Cover Letters,I work in HR,I'm looking for a job,Interviewing,Job Boards,Management,Networking,Recruiters,Resumes,Social Media,Workplace Issues

Today @Animal is hosting the fourth Career Carnival Blogging Event of 2009!

Be sure to swing by the carnival to get some completely awesome career and job search advice and discover some truly excellent blogs!

Contributors include moi, @Animal obviously, @beneubanks, @jerry_albright, @dawnbugni, @cincyrecruiter, @andygregorycpg, @Karla_Porter, and many more talented writers and career professionals that I am just now discovering along with you!!

@Animal provides his usual insightful and colorful commentary on each post which makes it just that much better.

Now go put on your best clown shoes and check it out!

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Tagged as: Blogging, Do you want this job or not, Do you want to have fun or not, Get a life, I need a job, I work in HR, Interviewing, Recruiters, Social Media, Twitter

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Your eyes are the window to your soul and Google is a CT scan of your resume.

by Stephanie A. Lloyd on May 20, 2009 · 1 comment

in I'm looking for a job,Interviewing,Job Boards,Recruiters,Social Media

I know what you’re thinking.

But Facebook / MySpace [or "SpacePage" if you're talking to my grandmother] is just for fun! What’s wrong with posting pictures of my birthday / bachelor / bachelorette / divorce party? It’s not like I’ve posted them on LinkedIn or include them when I submit my resume…

You might as well.

Cartoon by Hugh MacLeod

Harry Urschel wrote about this issue on Career Rocketer. “A recent poll of HR professionals and hiring managers showed that more than half will Google prospective candidates at some point during the hiring process. Furthermore, 46% of those have said that they have eliminated candidates based on what they found!”

He goes on to point out a few things that may shock you:

“If you are in a job search, it’s important to Google yourself. Discover what’s out there that may be found by potential employers. You may be surprised at the results and where they come from:

Did you trash someone, or something, in a review on Amazon?
Did you write a controversial Letter to the Editor to a newspaper or other publication?
Did you add comments to an article on a news site?
Did you make comments on someone else’s blog?
Did you “Tweet” a raunchy post on Twitter?
Did you post a crude picture on MySpace or Facebook?
Do you have a personal website with ‘less than professional’ material?
Did you trash a former employer on a Chat site?

Any of these things may or may not be damaging to you — depending on the subjective opinion of the person looking. However, be aware that all of these items and more may appear in a Google search!”

That’s what I thought.

You’d forgotten about that nasty Letter to the Editor you wrote last year.

OOPS.

And you didn’t think anything of it when you saw that you’d been tagged in that picture from your high school reunion, did you?

Your ‘resume’ is much more than that Word document you email when applying for a job. Yes, it includes your LinkedIn profile. And, it includes anything that comes up when your name is Googled.

Says Urchel, “Projecting a successful professional image on LinkedIn or on your resume posted on CareerBuilder doesn’t stand alone when being considered for a position. Pictures and/or comments on Facebook have an impact as well. The image you actually portray is a composite of your online footprint.”

Privacy settings can be helpful, but don’t let them give you a false sense of security. The truth is that the only way to keep people from seeing unflattering information about you is to not say it, write it, or do it.

Since everyone makes mistakes and says and does things they’ll later regret, it’s critical that you actively manage your online image. This includes everything that Google and other search engines can find which is ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET.

Job seekers (ok, everyone) should frequently perform online searches of their name and other key words that could bring up information about them and view the results through the eyes of the person they hope will be their next employer.

So.

What are you waiting for.

Have you Googled yourself today??

For more information you can contact Stephanie here and you can find her on Twitter at @StephanieALloyd and @JobSnob.

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Tagged as: Do you want this job or not, Facebook, I need a job, Interviewing, Recruiters, Social Media, Twitter, Yes I am actually being serious

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Interview with Mark Stelzner: Founder of JobAngels

by Stephanie A. Lloyd on May 12, 2009

in I work in HR,I'm looking for a job,Job Boards,Recruiters,Resumes,Social Media

Today I interviewed Mark Stelzner, founder of JobAngels, a rapidly-growing non-profit movement dedicated to helping people get back to work, one person at a time.

How did the idea for JobAngels come about?

“I like to refer to JobAngels as an ‘accidental grassroots movement.’ As you know, the month of January was absolutely horrific in terms of global job losses, and perhaps more importantly, it appeared that the global economy would get much worse before it got better. I began to ponder how one person could possibly impact the millions that were being laid off around the world.

My answer?

Perhaps if each of us simply helped just one other person find a job, we could start to make a difference.

This is the essence of the message I first sent on Twitter on January 29, 2009. And within thirty minutes, JobAngels was born.”

How has JobAngels grown since inception?

“Because this is a self-governing network, the best we have are estimates. We currently have over 15,000 JobAngels. Over 350,000 messages have been sent across our groups on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. We are anecdotally aware of hundreds of jobs that have been gained as a result of direct or indirect association with our movement.”

What success stories would you like to share?

“Within a week of starting JobAngels, we learned of a woman who had been unemployed and found a job via a posting that was sent to her by a JobAngel. She was successfully hired for the job, but then she immediately turned around and helped another woman who was in need as a way of “paying it forward”. That second woman also was successfully hired. Both women then continued to help others in need and we know of at least twenty-five other people who have received resume advice, networking assistance and guidance from these two “JobAngels”. This story embodies what JobAngels is all about – pick one person, help them in any way you can, and encourage them to help others as well.”

What’s next for JobAngels?

“We are focused on bringing the JobAngels.org site live with a robust feature-set that will serve as a hub to all things employment related. Our first release will focus on two primary goals:

matching job seekers with Job Angels
offering access to content, thought leaders, free third-party resources, and other tools that aid those in need.

Once that is complete, we’ll then shift our focus toward localization and taking JobAngels offline to help those who may never journey into the world of social media.

It’s an exciting journey and this is just the beginning!”

For more information check out the JobAngels website. You can also find JobAngels on LinkedIn and Facebook, and you can follow @JobAngels on Twitter.

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Tagged as: I need a job, I work in HR, JobAngels, LinkedIn, Recruiters, Social Media, Twitter

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Everyone in New York is rude and everyone in California is a hippie.

May 9, 2009

Glen Cathey, the Boolean Black Belt, recently wrote a rather provocative blog post entitled “Don’t be a sourcing snob.” He asks: Is a candidate identified on LinkedIn intrinsically “better” than a candidate sourced from Monster? Is candidate sourced by cold calling inherently “better” than a candidate sourced from a job posting on Careerbuilder? Does it [...]

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