Since preschool, we’ve known the difference between right and wrong.
It’s right to share. It’s wrong to hurt… you get the gist.
When it comes to social networking for the job search, we’re given a whole new set of rights and wrongs. If you’re new to the social media game, this decision can be awfully foreign.
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Social Networking
A Job Seeker’s Guide to the Facebook Timeline
You’ve heard it already, but it bears repeating: Timeline is coming.
In the next few weeks, Facebook plans to roll out the Timeline to every single Facebook user (that’s 800 million folks!)
Whether you jumped on the Timeline bandwagon a long time ago or you’re holding out until the last minute, there are some important things you [...]
#ProCircles Twitter Chat Tonight. Be There!
Tonight is the big night! We’re pretty excited here at Cachinko to be hosting the #ProCircles Twitter chat tonight (1/26) at 8 p.m. EST. Join us to discuss networking! From methods to manners, and everything in between, we’ll spend an hour hashing out all of the details!
Here are some of the questions we’re eager to [...]
Meet Your Next Boss at #ProCircles
BREAKING NEWS: Job seekers who use social media are finding jobs!
Okay, maybe it’s not all that shocking or novel, but it’s still true. Social media is one of the sharpest tools any job seeker can keep in their toolbox today.
Check out: Make the Most Out of Your Online Connections
When used correctly, different social media platforms [...]
What Do You Think? Generation-Y & Facebook [Infographic]
First there were the Baby Boomers, then Gen X… Now it’s time for Gen Y.
Approximately anyone born between the years 1980 and 1993 can be considered Gen Y (or Millennials, or Generation Next, etc.). Now that we’re right at the beginning of 2012, these “babies of the eighties” are all grown up, heading to college, [...]
Reach Out to Someone New: 5 Steps to Build Your Network
Where would we be without our friends?
We’d be pretty lonely, for starters. Red Rover would get a whole lot harder (or easier) and Facebook would lose its appeal. Let’s not forget how much harder the job search would be if it weren’t for our professional networking contacts and support system!
Check out: How Your Friends Can [...]
3 Tips to build and Improve a Talent Community – Guest Post on Business Insider
Talent communities facilitate engagement between employers and candidates and among candidates who share common interests and experience. From this purposeful interaction arises another dimension of talent screening: passive screening. You get to participate in conversations and spectate while talent interacts over various subjects related to their profession, the industry, job functions, political and economic factors [...]
8 Etiquette Rules for the Job Seeker on Google+
Practicing good etiquette is incredibly important in any situation and your job search is no exception. Thanks to social media and its newest addition, Google+, job seekers have even more opportunities to make good (or bad) impressions.
In a recent article by Ahmed Zeeshan, Google+ etiquette is outlined in the following eight sections:
Sharing
Just like Facebook and [...]
Bummed About Your Job? Don’t Share on Facebook
Is work getting you down? Maybe your boss was a major pain today or the computer chairs are flat-out uncomfortable. Everyone complains from time to time, after all, we’re only human. However, heed these words of caution: stay away from the computer.
Introducing the newest addition to the ever-growing list of ways Facebook can get you [...]
How Your Friends Can Help You in Your Job Search
“I get by with a little help from my friends.”
- The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Where would we be without our friends? Our social lives would evaporate, birthday parties would become strictly family affairs, and our dream jobs will be a little further out of reach.
Friends are an excellent resource for any job [...]
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