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One of the well-known ways to land a new job is to leverage your network. Whether networking with colleagues from work, friends or professors from school, or in other areas, networking plays a vital role; giving us access to people who can recommend us for positions or simply inform us of them. With social media proliferating society, networking utilizing social media may now overcome most other ways to expose ourselves to potential job positions. Here are 5 ways to use social media to get that next job.
Networking plays a vital role; giving us access to people who can recommend us for positions or simply inform us of opportunities.
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Social media gives us access to more company information. You can easily check to see if a company has a presence on one of the many social media sites, like Twitter, Facebook, linkedin, and Google Plus. If they do, you can easily read up on the company to learn whether they are doing the kinds of things you are interested in doing. You may discover they are expanding into a market you wished to work in or that may require a second language skill you possess.
Feedback and Discussion
You can also provide feedback about products and services, comment on information they are providing or news that has been written about them, even discuss recent business decisions or events. This may give you exposure to product representatives, managers and other staff members who curate these social media pages. If you get feedback from the company, that may be worth noting in an interview. Sites like linkedin will also let you link your blog to your profile. Updating those in your network about the things you write about, possibly making you an authority in your area
The key to success in the current job market is breaking through to the hidden job market. Over half of all jobs go to someone who did not apply to a posted opening at all. What are they doing and how are they doing it? They’re finding new jobs before the posting hits the Internet.
Network
Having access to a wide variety of people is the most important thing about social media. You can easily check to see if the users on a particular network share your interests or work at companies you are interested in. You can then become friends with them or follow them. Most users are fine with making new friends within these networks and are even fine with being contacted for their expertise and knowledge. So, inquiring about a job lead or company information is usually welcome.
Your Status
Another great thing about social media is that you can easily update your network on your current job status. If you recently were laid off, you can let users know, and inform them about what you are looking for. This is a great way to get information and job leads provided to you. If you have a good reputation or are an authority, users will be happy to recommend you.
Link to Yourself
Not only can you link to your blog, but you can, and should, link to
Social media has definitely changed the times in which we live. It is important to utilize them for networking in order to advance your
