In today’s world millions of people are out of work and looking for creative and effective ways to find a job in this economy. Most jobs are created when the company growing, someone quits, transfers, or the employers is replacing them, also some Companies are not posting all their jobs because of the overwhelm response to jobs with hundreds of other applicants applying for the same position.
Fortunately there is a better way to reach job recruiters. Using social media sites and the internet a better way to connect with job recruiters and land the job of your dreams. Networking is still king in the job market today. Get connected to show your talent, skills.
Here are 15 tips how to use social media and the internet to be seen in a crowded job market
1. Make a video and submit it to the top 10 video sites and use the job keywords as your tags, try to show your skills to a potential employer very few people have actually created video resumes, so try to make the best video of yourself to shine above the rest.
2. Use facebook or twitter to find old co-workers and ask them can you put them down as a reference.
3. Sign up for Google Reader or any other RSS Reader and subscribe to Monstor.com Careerbuilder.com RSS make sure you are only getting the feeds for jobs you are interested into and let the jobs come to you!!!
4. Like the Company on facebook and show you have an interest in the Company
5. Join the largest Professional Network Linkedin.com then create a group focused on your profession. Also if you can found people who you have work with before try to ask them to put you down as a person they would recommended for a job this will help a lot in Linkedin.com
6. Start a blog or website showing your talent, skills or area of interest.
7. Create a online resume an promote it using social media
8. Create footprints that you can use to search for certain jobs
9. Join facebook (over 750 million active user) start a facebook group in your professional Use
10. Use craigslist job category
11.Get a professional photo done first impression is everything try to look professional
12. Do a TwitJobSearch (twitjobsearch is like a job search engine for Twitter)
13. Use Keyword research when writing your resume some employees use software to pull resumes having the right words or related keywords in your resume could land you a job. Using LSI which stands for Latent semantic indexing can be benefical for job seekers you are more likely to show up for search queries using words related to the job you are trying acquire thus improving your chances for employement
14. Try to get on your videos on news channels
15. Create a facebook page and promote it using facebook ads
If all else fails start your own business, got any great ideas how to use social media to get a job include them in a comment.
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