In an article written by The Wall, Clodagh Walsh suggests that the wonderful age of the digital is simply not enough anymore to now mass produce a covering letter and just press send on your email web broswer. She goes on to mention that employers are now looking far and wide beyond the digital landscape and utilising Social Networking site such as Twitter and LinkedIn to find the best possible candidate for the role.
Here are just a few handy tips that she recommends to get that dream job by your tweets.
Optimise your profile
If you are serious about your job hunt, the first thing you must do is make sure that your LinkedIn profile is fully optimised. This is essential to getting yourself noticed as the site itself is an internal search engine. Make sure that you use all key words specific to your desired sector and experience to ensure that you are found easily by employers who may be on the look out for new talent. In the same respect it goes without saying to make sure that other profiles connected to your LinkedIn profile are suitable for employers to look through or censored if need be – we’ve all heard the horror stories.
Join groups
Its worth signing up to professional networking sites such as LinkedIn for the discussion groups alone. Thousands of companies and industry publications set up groups that are open to anyone to join. Once you’ve joined, you are effectively given direct access to organisations enabling you to find out what is going on within their business, their ethics, values and even employment opportunities with vacancies posted frequently. By applying for jobs through groups, not only does this show that you are proactive, but also that you have a special interest in that particular organisation.
Follow the jobs
Twitter – a constant stream of status updates and opinions. Yes a lot of it is nonsensical drivel that no one really cares about, however it can be a fantastic resource for job postings, particularly twitjobsearch. This allows you to search the entire twitter network for jobs specific to your sector. Similar to LinkedIn’s discussion groups, by following potential employers you can track their activities and monitor job postings. Recruitment consultancies are an excellent target for this; check out our twitter feed here for the latest creative jobs.
PR yourself and make connections
Before any job interview we always advise our candidates to connect with their interviewer through LinkedIn. It’s great for establishing contact with the company prior to the interview to score a few brownie points and it’s also great for building up your contacts. However, if you’re not at the interview stage just yet and are still hunting then again this is also a great tool for making contact with those already working in your chosen industry and could lead to a recommendation for a role. Recommendations are a fantastic way to PR yourself – if you have good relationships with your previous employers then send them a recommendation request.
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