Posts under ‘For Job Seekers’

Have you ever looked at your resume as if you’d like to employ yourself? Were you impressed or do you have the same boring resume that you have had for ten years? Here’s a great infographic that shows how you can make some improvements.

If you are serious about getting a job in social media, then no doubt you will have a Twitter account. And you’ll probably have a LinkedIn account. But have you linked the two?
Many people have yet to combine the power of these two networks to great effect – but now with LinkedIn Signal you can [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]