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If your tweets are falling on deaf ears, you’re not alone. According to a study by the iCIMS Hire Expectations Institute, 51% of all jobs on social media are posted to Twitter

Your profile photo may be the most important part of your Linkedin profile.  So how do you know what makes a good pic for you? We know profile pics are one of the things people click on most when viewing your Linkedin profile.  This was boldly illustrated by Heat Map Studies recently posted on MashableRead more

A few weeks back I appeared on the Career Hangout (or CHO Show) as the guest of Lars Schmidt, Laurie Ruettimann, and Lance Haun, to talk about how to optimize your Linkedin profile.  CHO is (was) a weekly Google Hangout designed to assist job seekers.   They did a wonderful job of promoting my appearance.Read more

I have just finished day one of profile awesomizations at Linkedin’s Talent Connect conference.  I thought it would be a great time to post this article I wrote for Linkedin’s blog a couple of weeks back.  If you find this helpful, share it with your Linkedin network!  Cheers, CF How to take advantage of Linkedin’s profile updateRead more

Here’s a nice list of cool tools for anyone interested in their business brand or a better customer experience. I’ve used most of these and like them, but I’m excited to test Workface. It’s a slick live chat feature for your website to communicate with your visitors in real-time. http://workface.com/ Here’s the list from aRead more

When I see Alison Doyle posting on About.com how to use a certain platform for job search, I generally know its time to take that platform seriously for recruiting.  I’ve been advising recruiters and employers on how to use Pinterest for recruiting for a few months now and have been highlighting it at TalentNet LiveRead more

“Dude, your on Mashable!” was the message that popped up from a friend in my chat window in March of 2009.  “What??”  It tuned out  Sarah Evans had just written an article for Mashable, HOW TO:  Find a Job on Twitter.  In it, she listed a few recruiters to follow, including me, Christa Foley fromRead more

It’s called many things: employer or employment branding, recruitment marketing, talent attraction, talent marketing, etc.  It’s a largely misunderstood thing that is really just about what your company looks like as a prospective employer to job seekers. Wikipedia describes Employer Branding like this: Employer brand was first used in the early 1990s to denote anRead more

 Edgerank is the evil culprit that is most responsible for what you see on your Facebook timeline.  Yes, it has a name.  Facebook is arguably the best tool in social media for engaging your customers or friends. But if you want to be really good at it, below are 3 tips to help you upRead more

How well do you know your email contacts? Today Xobni released its social intelligence app, Smartr, for Gmail.  I was interested to see if it would work for me as a compliment to, or even “smarter” replacement for Rapportive.   I have been using Rapportive since early Summer as a social profile viewer/CRM inside myRead more

Facebook regularly makes changes to user agreements and it’s platform that outrage it’s user community.  But somehow most people don’t leave the mammoth social site.Here’s a look back to an interesting Post from September of 2011 on the CNN Tech blog. Here we go again.Facebook has made big changes to users’ pages, and people are responding inRead more

Do you have the proper mix of organic and paid search strategies? Are you using social media to boost your search rankings? Are you measuring the right things when you evaluate your search efforts? Are you optimizing your website for organic search and making smart paid search decisions? This month I am pleased to beRead more

Mashable.com today posted a great article and infographic: How Businesses Use Social Media for Recruiting. by Erica Swallow Savvy job seekers have turned to digital and social media tools to help them in their job searches, and now recruiters are on board with the power of social media as a recruiting tool. LinkedIn isn’t the only social network thatRead more

Remember when people said Twitter isn’t good for recruiting?  I am a huge fan of bold new platforms like Google+ for networking and recruiting purposes.  I am not going to do a full explanation of what Google+ is in this post.  Andy Headworth has already done a nice job of that on his blog.  CheckRead more

On my list of unique experiences, SHRM’s 2011 National Conference is way up there.  It was my first SHRM conference.  And to say I was made to feel welcome is a huge understatement.  As a member of the social recruiting community, I have, at times, been led to believe that SHRM actually stood for “SoRead more

In May of this year I was honored to present at the Recruiting Innovation Summit at Linkedin Headquarters in Mountain View, CA. I showed my methods for recruiting and employer branding through Foursquare and other location based check-in services. I got to meet some key people from both Linkedin and Facebook (two of my favoriteRead more

Late last week I was alerted by a friend that I was part of an NBC news story that apparently went out over several affiliates, including Dallas, about social media and job search.  I didn’t see the story and hadn’t been asked to comment about it by anyone at the network.  So naturally I was curious. IRead more

Today, Jason Seiden and I hosted the first episode of a new radio show, Beyond Social, that we are doing for our social media strategy and training company, Ajax Social Media.  Jason did a nice summary of the show on the Ajax Blog that I posted below. Tune in to blogtalkradio.com/beyondsocial every Thursday at 10amRead more

Facebook is really great for annoying your friends with Candy Crush Saga requests.  But it’s also a very good place to network for a new job.  In 2011, I was interviewed for an article by Alina Dizik posted on the MSN Careers/careerbuilder web site entitled Can Facebook really help you land a Job.  As usual, IRead more

I am currently attempting to grow my BranchOut network on Facebook because my pal, William Tincup, teased me about being in the bottom half of his top 20 friends on this Facebook business networking app.  Never one to pass up a challenge, and always wanting to experiment with new tools, I set out to addRead more