Get Hired Faster: Building a Web Presence
Making yourself standout in a pool of thousands of applicants is especially difficult in today’s economy. Handing out your resume is most likely not enough to even get you in the door. With the intensification of web and social media more employers are looking for digital samples of work, thoughts, and other accomplishments. I wanted to outline some steps you can take to build your personal brand and build a web presence.
1. Building Your Brand: Building your brand is essential for gaining a good reputation. Start by connecting through social media site such as LinkedIN, Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus. This will help increase your visibility on the web and help you easily be more found.
- Post content related to your career goals and things you find interesting, not content related to how messed up you were this weekend.
- Connect with people in your industry to ask questions and networking opportunities. Most connections and opportunities are based off referrals today, and it’s import to expand your network.
- Interact on company websites you want to work for. Like them, share their posts, and comment on topics you find interesting. This helps establish credibility and might get you noticed.
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What in the World is Klout?
In this modern day era of communication, it can be hard to juggle or even begin to measure your online based contributions.
With the easiness of writing a blog post like this one, write on a forum, send a tweet or Facebook status there are just too many sites and social networks to keep track of. Internet based company “Klout” has solved and is continuing to engineer algorithms to understand a persons total influence on people and topics across the internet.
What I Like About Google +
Google has just launched their new social network called Google Plus. Google+ offers some cool features and I wanted to share some of my first impressions.
- Circles: The way you can organize friends is impressive with their simple drag and drop feature. It also lets you share information more effectively by only sharing to certain circles.
- Hangout: Although I haven’t video chatted yet, I think that Google’s video chat application is a going to be a big success when more people are joined. Google hangout allows you to talk with up to 10 people and also has a sweet camera switching feature that changes to who is talking. This can be great for socializing, collaborating or group projects.
- +1 button: The plus one feature is going to be great tool to utilize when saving links you like searching Google. It will also be a strong way to see what your friends like when the site grows.
Facebook + Skype = ?
The biggest social networking site in the world, Facebook has launched a video chat application yesterday. Joining the social media giant is Skype, which was just recently bought by Microsoft for some 8.5 billion dollars. This mutually beneficial deal provides Facebook access to a great free video service which offers more user interaction, and Skype with a connection to the worlds largest social networking infrastructure.
