A Job You Love

Now with the new social networking trends, I can see a whole bunch of articles stating “Finding a job through twitter” or “easy steps to find a job with twitter” or “5 rules for job seekers on Twitter”.

No, finding a job on twitter is not an easy job and even brings a lot of misconception.

1 – It takes time

Twitter follows certain rules, a specific etiquette and to understand this etiquette you need to spend some time on it

At first, you are going to listen and observe, and then may be … Continue Reading

Why did you come first on Linkedin?

Because all my contacts are on it! or Because I have been invited…

But really, why are you using Linkedin?

Generally people don’t even know the answer.

So you act as a headless chicken using Linkedin without really knowing why you are there and what you should be doing.

What are the consequences of this?

1 – Lack of focus on your profile:

Your profile is just a copy and paste of your CV without any specific focus. On Linkedin profiles need to be … Continue Reading

Here is the social network of Jesus designed using the bible and especially the new testament.

What I mean by “social network of Jesus” is the fact that Jesus lays at the centre of the network, he is the hub of the network, the person who knows everyone, the point of contact for all the relationships.

Definition

A social network is made of nodes (people) and ties (relationships), and the sum of all these nodes and ties, is a social network.

It can be ego centered (around a specific person) or community … Continue Reading

In the Uk and now in France, recruiters organisations and governing bodies have tried to avoid discrimination through different measures. In the UK, you don’t have to put a photo, your address, your age or your marital status on your CV.

In France, in 2006, the Anonymous CV has been created to prevent any discrimination but it has not been used so far or only on a small scale by some French corporations (Loreal, Axa…).

All these efforts have been made to avoid precisely any kind of discrimination whether it … Continue Reading

The other day I came across an article in the Sunday Times talking about social networking and recruitment.

And what amazed me is the fact that recruiters were all saying that Social networks are really useful but it is not that great.

” Linkedin is a great networking tool and research tool. However it is not a panacea.” Toby Fowlston, Robert Walters

“Linkedin isn’t the phone book and even if it was, who would want to look through the entire phone book to find the right candidate?” Eamon Collins Michael … Continue Reading

I have been giving workshops on how to use Linkedin for professionals and one of the main benefit of Linkedin is to raise your reputation and your brand.

But how to do that?

I have identified 5 reputation building tools on Linkedin.

1) Status updates

Everytime you post a status update, you communicate about what you are doing…you can really use the status update to communicate your brand and mentioning the things you are developing according to your target. For example if I want to be known as the expert in the marketing … Continue Reading

Your picture on Social networks is the killer app…You don’t believe me?

Piskorski a Harvard professor made that discovery:

“I just wondered why people spend so much time on these sites (social networks); what do they do?”

The biggest discovery: pictures. “People just love to look at pictures,” says Piskorski. “That’s the killer app of all online social networks. Seventy percent of all actions are related to viewing pictures or viewing other people’s profiles.”

Now when you register on a social network and you want to really use it, you need to … Continue Reading

Do you have recommendations on your Linkedin profile?

I have been noticing a growing trend of people exchanging favors on Linkedin of this kind:

“You write a recommendation on Linkedin for me and I will write one for you”.

They worked in the same company or exchanged information but never really worked together to be able to recommend each other. You only talked to the person twice and had a nice drink with this guy, but on that basis how can you recommend him?

These people don’t understand the principles of recommendations: they are … Continue Reading

Almost every day now, I receive requests for connections on linkedin. I think  linkedin is a wonderful tool…but people don’t respect some basic rules.

Actually these are common rules. When you meet someone at a networking venue, do you say “I would like to connect with you?”. You start a proper conversation, and explain why you want to connect with her.

On linkedin it is exactly the same, 90% of the time I receive that: “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn” (or in French as now there … Continue Reading

Did you know that the top 10 In-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004?

Did you know that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38?

Did you know that 1 out of 8 couples married in the US last year met OnLine (and I know a couple of them in France!!)?

Jobs, careers are changing and we, as career consultants, we need to adapt to these changes to be able to help our clients better, to give them the best of the market…Now you need to use social media, it allows you to speed up the process … Continue Reading

I have been using google reader to get all the news about my industry especially career advice and everything related to job search.

But with the time passing, I realize that career advice is completely boring and not creative…every single day, I read loads of advice and tips:

“5 tips to write your cv”

“the 7 tips to win an interview”

“How to use linkedin to find a job”

And so on…(I hate lenghty listings like the “15 ways” with 15 bullet points)

So I started to simply unsubscribe to a great deal of blogs with … Continue Reading

I am amazed sometimes to see how much people are able to brand themselves with no expertise or no experience at all.

And internet and social media are leveraging this more than anything else.

So you can be a 25 year old guy and brand yourseld as an expert in an industry where it takes many years to reach a good level of expertise. It is good and bad at the same time.

Yes social media is good to promote yourself and showcase who you are through articles, content and good … Continue Reading