connecting the connectors
Here’s a novel idea – create a resume documenting your personal and professional experience using Google Maps. Not only can you see Ed Hamilton’s address (no privacy here), you can also see the places he has worked and learn a little about the experience he gained as a result.
What do you think? Would YOU hire him?
View Ed Hamilton - Copywriter. in a larger map
Via @beaney
In any career there are ups and downs – but there often comes a time where you stop “working for the man” and start “working for yourself”. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to become your own boss – but it does mean finding a job that you love.
But what does it take to tip you over? What drives you to make that change? Sometimes all it takes is acknowledging a “radical truth”, such as:
These are from Sally Hogshead’s book Radical Careering : 100 Truths to Jumpstart Your Job, Your Career, and Your Life
Download it, read it and get radical with your career!
The idea of working on creating console and online games is the pinnacle of professional (and personal) achievement for many gamers. Not only do you get a great job – you get to pour your passion into your work. But for every job opening, there are thousands of applications. How do you get YOUR resume to stand out from the crowd?
The illustrator, Sean McNally, took a novel approach – and turned his CV into a character sheet straight out of Dungeons and Dragons. It’s a great way to showcase your experience, learning and self-assessed character traits while also demonstrating your understanding of the genre.
What would you do if this resume came across your desk?
Via GeekDad.
I have written previously about how you can effectively use LinkedIn to find a job. In fact, I went so far as to integrate a LinkedIn widget into the Social Media Jobs job board so that when you are looking at a particular role, you can see immediately who you know who works there.
This post from the ComScore folks shows just how much attention LinkedIn is receiving from those looking for work.
By cross-pollinating use pattern data, Andrew Lipsman was able to show that LinkedIn visitors were significantly more focused on job hunting than the general internet user. This means that LinkedIn users are actively employing platforms such as LinkedIn to activate and enrich their social and professional networks as a means to find work. Five years ago this wouldn’t have happened. Three years ago it would have been for “early adopters”. This year – perhaps being driven by the global financial crisis, people are turning to any and all tools that help us build and maintain people powered networks.
By the way, don’t forget to check out the latest job listings! Happy hunting.
I first started working right at the end of an era. Those who preceded me still believed in, and possibly had, jobs for life. But I had the fortune to hit the workforce in the middle of a recession – and found it quite a challenge to find work.
Eventually I landed a job but soon realised that the job safety net – the job for life – no longer existed. I met and worked with many people who were forced to change their jobs or to retire – and with this came isolation, confusion and fear. After all, back then there was no such thing as LinkedIn or Facebook – we were lucky to see one computer in an office of 100 employees. Social networking was something that happened after work – at the pub – and it was not necessarily conducive to showcasing your skills, aspirations or hidden talents (drinking games aside).
Social media, however, now provides us all with ready-made tools to showcase our talents. It provides the perfect way to share our OWN career stories, publish our portfolio of creative work or even receive public endorsement of our capabilities.
If you happen to be out of work, or are starting to look for your next opportunity, it will be worth reading Chris Brogan’s free eBook – How to Use the Social Web to Find Work. It may well be the most important thing you read this year.
This video has been through a number of iterations, but it reinforces the point that we are currently living through the type of seismic cultural and economic shifts that have been rarely seen in human history.
Spend a few minutes taking in the statistics, revelations and predictions that have seen this video receive over 6 million views in the last year. Then think about your business. Think about your career. And then look to the future. Does it seem so predictable?
If you are involved in social media (or if you want to be), then no doubt you have started to run into the situation where your PERSONAL and PROFESSIONAL lives overlap. You might have a personal blog but a LinkedIn profile. You may have a Flickr account and an OpenID. And, of course, you will have more than a few of your colleagues listed as Friends on your Facebook profile.
But is there a way to hive off part of your Facebook profile in a way that works for your professional life? Is it possible to manage Facebook in a way that ENHANCES your professional profile? It seems that there is!
Boris Epstein has a great post on using Facebook for Networking. It involves:
Just make sure that you remember that with social media, you are always on the job!
Years ago I ran an online learning group at IBM. It was called the Knowledge Factory and it was a great place to learn about how to get your message across to others using “multimedia” (as we called it back then). And while the technology was interesting, the more important aspect was the use of instructional design theory. Basically, instructional design ensures that people who interact with your materials online engage, learn and retain what you share with them.
Now, when it comes to job hunting, there is much you can learn from instructional design. And in this neat, 15 minute presentation from Michaels and Associates, you can see how just one of the standard instructional design models (ADDIE) can be applied to your job search.
Best of luck!
This interesting presentation, by Daemon Digital, suggests that the way that we go about the business of recruiting is in for a shakeup. Or perhaps, more precisely, is GOING THROUGH a profound transformation.
Have you or your business used social media to attract or place staff? Do you know someone who has? How did that person work out?
So far, SocialMediaJobs.com.au has matched some great people with great jobs – but I have a feeling it is just the tip of the iceberg.
Some time ago I wrote that Blogs are the New CVs … but in true social media form, new and innovative approaches have, perhaps, rendered this a little simplistic. After all, the same ideas can be applied to Facebook Fan Pages, YouTube channels and so on.
But what are the best examples?
Marek Wolski, a young marketer from Melbourne shows the way with some great uses of Slideshare to demonstrate his thinking, approaches to his career and even his resume.
Seen something similar? Do tell!
