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How to Connect with HireFinders

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

We are on Facebook as a fan page and a group, here are the links: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/HireFinders/145497024578?ref=ts is the fan page and http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=133693695212&ref=ts is the group page. We are so new, please connect and share with us.

We also have a group on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=2141847 is the invitation to join. You must be a member of Facebook and LinkedIn to join these groups. You can also follow us on twitter here: http://twitter.com/HireFinders

Hope to see you there!

@TheCareer100 Must-Follow Mavens on Twitter

Friday, May 15th, 2009

The following is a guest post from Ryon Harms, the founder of the http://thesocialexec.com/ and @TheCareer100. I thought it is such a cool idea and I am on the list! I have included his entire post which explains @TheCareer100:

On my last post, I offered 9 tips to get you started on Twitter. If you took my advice you’re probably reaching the, “So now what?” phase of your Twitter experience. A critical step beyond that all too common initial bewilderment is to quickly identify those powerful voices that can help you convert the overwhelming amounts of information on Twitter into a career-changing competitive advantage.

To that end, I’m please to announce the launch of @TheCareer100, a hand-picked collection of the 100 most influential personal branding gurus, power networkers, resume and interview experts, job boards and fellow executives on Twitter. If you’re new to Twitter, I hope you’ll find this list an invaluable resource for quickly getting up to speed on the who’s who of career management. I expect that even veteran Twitter’ers will find some undiscovered gems.

@TheCareer100 is a dynamic directory, meaning that as new voices emerge they will replace existing members. In fact, moving forward I’ll be looking to all of you for recommendations on who to add next. To submit recommendations simply email them to thecareer100@gmail.com. New additions will be announced via tweets through @TheCareer100 along with monthly member highlights and retweets, so be sure to follow us too.

As the name suggests, @TheCareer100 will never follow more than 100 people. Capping the list will help keep it fresh and dynamic for years to come. Listing them on Twitter, rather than on this static blog post, also makes it easier to click “follow” straight down the list. I recommend following everybody and then filtering folks out if they aren’t relevant to your career goals.

If you still haven’t joined Twitter, this is your opportunity. Knowing who to follow is half the battle. Following this list of 100 career mavens will allow you to listen in on some of the masters before you decide to join the conversation. Click here to get started: www.twitter.com/thecareer100.

P.S. It’s been a month since my last blog post. In that time I’ve added a few tools to make it easier to share this blog with your friends and colleagues. I also spent quite a bit of time doing my due diligence on these 100 career mavens. I hope you’ll find it was worth the wait.

Some Ways to Use Twitter to Speed Up Your Job Search

Monday, May 11th, 2009

This article is going to assume you already use twitter and have some followers. So, you can post a tweet in 140 characters saying what type of position you are looking for and hope that the right person is listening, but there are other things you can do and that’s

Today’s Tip:

Use twitter search to find out what companies are looking for your skills.

There are so many ways to use twitter search, I will just give a few today and if you have others to add, I would love to hear from you here.

Go to twitter search and do a keyword search for your skills. Let’s say you are a JD Edwards expert, you can search for that or if that brings too many results, you can try narrowing it by searching “Looking for JD Edwards” or other modifiers. You can set up an RSS feed right from the search page. Twitter search can be found at http://search.twitter.com/ .

You could also set up alerts at one of the many companies that allow you to receive emails on your twitter search results. http://tweetbeep.com/ is one such company that does this. A good place to find many twitter applications is at http://twitdom.com/ .

Many companies and recruiters are tweeting jobs, you could search for the new hash tag #followhr and find recruiters and human resources experts to follow.

So, if you have used twitter in your job search, I would love to hear from you. If you have a great resource that uses twitter to post employment opportunities, please list them here.

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