How to Use Social Media in Your Job Search

In this blog I will briefly examine how to use social media in your Job Search. I will start with a website that many of you may be familiar with Linkedin. Linkedin can be found at www.linkedin.com. Linkedin allows you to network within a community of professionals.

Linkedin allows you to post a picture, your resume, and it allows you to obtain professional recommendations. Linkedin provides you a platform to showcase your accomplishments and skills. In doing this you are allowing yourself to be discovered by employers. Job seekers oftentimes focus their energy on finding job leads and potential employers.  Social Media provides job seekers a way they can be researched and discovered. For this reason you should proofread and update your profile on a regular basis so you can protect your image.

Linkedin also has a Job Search engine that you can use to search for jobs. You don't have to pay to use this service either. Linkedin is also helpful when you are trying to address a cover letter. It gives you information pertaining to who posted the job, when the job was posted, and the position of the person who posted the job. This information will allow you to personalize your cover letter.

Linkedin is well respected by many professionals and I feel that it should be used in your Job Search. In order to make Linkedin work, you have to invest time in it. When it is hot continue to use it and if isn't working try something else and come back to it at a later time.