How to use social media to engage with employers

This Tuesday Tip video features College Recruiter's Content Manager, Bethany Wallace. The 5-minute video provides tips for college students and recent grads who want to search for internships and entry-level jobs.

It's important to understand that according to an Aberdeen study, 73% of 18-34 year-olds found their last job through social networking. Networking online pays dividends in your job search. Using social media when networking online with potential employers is key.

Bethany Wallace...

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From: College Recruiter niche job search site

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Quick Tip: We Are A Social Network! Navigating the Employer and Freelancer Directories

This Quick Tip will teach you how to use UK Music Jobs as a social networking site, and walk you through navigating our Employer and Freelancer directories.

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From: musicjobsuk

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Contractors must watch social media posts

Contractors need to watch what they post on social networking sites as most employers now research potential candidates online.

That's according to a new survey of over 450 employers by CareerBuilder.co.uk.

The research shows over half of employers use social networking sites to research candidates, and 12 per cent plan to start using social networking sites for screening.

The most common reasons for dismissing a potential new employee after checking out their online profile are lying about...

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From: Excelliumumbrella

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Employing Social Networking in the Recruiting Industry

ERE interviews experts Karin Lash (TMP Worldwide) and Ryan Estis (NAS recruitment) on how social networking is changing the recruiting industry.

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From: Brendan Shields

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Tips To Improve Your Reputation On Social Network Sites

A growing number of people have damaged their reputations because of what they post on social networking sites. In 2009, the Society for Human Resource Management conducted a survey to see if employers check the social network sites of applicants. Twenty-five percent said they do and nearly half said negative content would affect their hiring decision.

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From: wgaltv

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kineticvideo.com - Dangers-of-social-media-14571.mp4

This program asks: What are the benefits of Social Networking Sites? What are the dangers of Social Networking? What should you not post on your site? What is the impact from incriminating and inappropriate information posted on network sites? Can postings on a network site effect employment? And outlines the felony charges associated with sexting!

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From: Kineticstreaming

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Social networking at work (IMI-TechTalk / 12.05.10)

Tony Bradley is back to tackle the implications of social networking at work. What are employers worried about? What should employees know.

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From: Tony Bradley

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Using social media to recruit workers

Harpaul Sambhi, founder and CEO of Careerify and author of Social HR, published by Carswell, discusses what social networks employers should use, how HR can implement a strategy for recruiting via social media and common challenges organizations need to overcome in order to be successful.

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From: Canadian HR Reporter

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Social Network Analysis meets the Semantic Web: What FOAF Reveals About LiveJournal

The Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF) project was begun in 1999 to explore the application of semantic web technologies (RDF/XML) to people's personal details, such as their interests, occupations and personal affiliations, with the aim of facilitating social network data-mining.  We develop here an approach to visualizing FOAF data that employs techniques of quantitative Social Network Analysis, using the foaf:knows and foaf:interest relations extracted from a crawl of FOAF files....

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From: Microsoft Research

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Social Media & Network Background Check Pitfalls

Learn the potential pitfalls of using social networks such as facebook and myspace to perform pre-employment screening and background checks.

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From: crimcheck

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