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You Are a Loser If You Do and A Loser If You Dont Use Social Media follow this blog post

posted by on Oct. 8, 2009

I've had a couple loser friends over the years, always broke and always unemployed.  I thought I had ditched them but they showed up on Facebook. Now, I think they are wiser for the times.

But guess what, you have something in common with them again other than beer or football. It's Social Media. And it has grown out of control. We have become an online community of self absorbed losers. We spend a lot of time on Facebook and Twitter promoting ourselves.

Social Media Junkies often ask themselves, "Why not do this full time? Why not build a biz around Social Media?"

 

The question you might need to ask is yourself down the road is "Why did I do that"?

And if you are a Recruiter, like me, then you have to curb your Social Media cravings.

But, if you're unemployed Recruiter, you need to have a strong presence in all the Social Media sites.

Unemployed today isn't a big deal. Being unemployed  and NOT using Social Media website, you're losing out. Plain and simple.

 Because of Social Media, people are finding jobs. And, a lot of people are working for themselves.  They got fed up with the corporate life or multitude of layoffs.  Everyone is racing off to Social Media building their business idea. It's the new internet bubble.

How are you going to monetize your time on these social sites? 

How can you monetize Social Media as part of your business model? How are finding your next job? What works for you?

One solution could be to attend the Social Media Recruiting Summit. .

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  • 1 point 5 months ago

    Any recruiters looking for a way to incorporate social media into their daily recruiting practices should check out AutoSearch.

    www.getautosearch.com

    AutoSearch makes using social media for recruiting purposes fast, easy and organized. 

     

     

     

  • 0 points 5 months ago

    Social media can provide many opportunities and avenues for success. It is a great tool to use for branding not only an individual, but also companies. The benefit of social media, lines in its ability to offer brand imaging to consumers. It all brings together people from all backgrounds with common interests and ideas.

  • 0 points 5 months ago

    I found myself laughing about the 'you have to curb your social media cravings' - because that's what I'm telling myself ALL THE TIME!  And I think people like me not only spend too much time on social media - at least more time than can really be tracked to a demonstrable ROI - but we spend a lot of time DEFENDING social media (in blogs, etc.) when the truth is we just LIKE social media a lot and want to defend our choices.

     

     

  • 0 points 5 months ago

    I know this is heresy......but as a Recruiter seeking a new oppportunity I have not found the social networking sites that helpful.  Perhaps I need a bit more experience.  Twitter especially, confounds me.  I just do not get it--although I am a member there I do not find it helpful--and I am unsure how to make it work for me.

    Please--no advertisement for your products in response to this...I am not employed and will not buy your products.

  • 1 point 5 months ago

    I attended a free social media webinar and I must say I learned a lot about the tools and how they work, how to best use them for your purposes, painted the picture clearly to convince me it was necessary to break out of anonymity on the web and to manage your 'brand'.

    Twitter to me was just a place to get spammed before I learned that it has powerful sourcing capabilities. You can search it for real time conversations to find your niche group and get in there, make yourself part of the community, add pertinent content and become a trusted advisor if you know your stuff or have anything meaningful to add to the conversation.

    The key is to become part of the community and not a spammer or sales person. When you aren't belly to belly, as they say, you have to gain trust and become human. You can't just go into a forum discussing human resource issues hawking your need for work ..you go in as a peer, add to the discussion, show what you know, add your thoughts hoping to stir interest so maybe the HR Director you're chatting with gets curious, clicks your signature or googles you or sees your linkedin profile.

    The same stuff that's done here in blogging and posting in the forums. You get a feel for a blogger's personality after a while.. but on a more personal level when you're in a chat or forum group. Not a monologue.. they can get a feel about whether they'd like working with you.

    I'd never have thought about twitter as a search tool to get you to where the action is in your niche.

    The presenter stressed the need to keep up with the top 3, Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook and listed Plaxo, Biznik, and Fastpitch as the best insider secrets and then gave a tool to help you update all at once, though you have to do some of this manually when it takes more than one update a day.

    I couldn't imagine how this could be possible as I would avoid online social places to enable me to manage my time.  The webinar was really filled with good info not just a promotion sprinkled with teasers.. at the end they offered their tiered plans to get you on top of it and keep you in the game either teaching you or doing it all for you ..but the content of the freebie was really solid and helpful to get started. Here's their free webinar page: http://tinyurl.com/ykwg5s2

  • 0 points 5 months ago

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