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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

Craig was chosen as an IBM Futurist. Looking back is part of the seeing the future. This post will show how to discover the first tweets from anyone or about anything.

I recently stumbled upon an interview I did with Stephanie Lloyd in 2009 about how I use Twitter for Recruiting.  At that time I was still running my executive search and consulting business.  It seems the suggestions about how I used Twitter then still apply today. I guess Twitter hasn’t changed that much.  The basicRead more

Job searching on social media and online search engines is common.  But it can result in an overwhelming amount of duplicate job ads from scraping services, and less than stellar response time to online submissions of your resume.A more efficient way might be to find and connect with the individuals who post the jobs youRead more

Want to intern at Twitter?  Check out how on this fun Cool Tools Show podcast as Lars and I talked with the Twitter recruiting team.     Guests on this podcast include:  Anitra Collins – Twitter Recruitment Operations Lead Meghan Lorig – Twitter University Programs Lead We discussed: 1. Does twitter have an internship program? If so, can youRead more

On my birthday 2 weeks ago, January 9th, 2013, LinkedIn announced that it had surpassed 200 million members. Two major milestones.  Next week I’ll be in San Francisco to talk about Linkedin optimization and other cool tools at the Social Recruiting Strategies Conference.  This will be my 3rd #SRSC, and I can’t wait.  More milestones…andRead 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

By Trish McFarlane originally posted on MonsterThinking.comThis Friday I planned to cover theTalent Net Live (#TNL) conference atRackspace in San Antonio for you.  Unfortunately, business needs necessitated my being in St. Louis this week.  This does offer me the opportunity to share how to attend a conference virtually using several social media platforms.The following areRead more

I love it when people question the way I build my social networks.  “Why would you want to be friends with so many people?”  “How can you keep track of so many?”  My answer, always, is simple.  Why not?  It’s good for both business and personal networking.  You don’t have to actually interact with, orRead 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

Thanks to Gordon Keith of Sports Radio 1310 The Ticket for posting this funny send up of broadcast news’ obsession with social media.  Are we very far away from this?  I don’t think so. Fake hostage situation at City Hall from Fox 4 DFW–poking fun at social media obsession.Read more

Today I’ll be discussing Linkedin on CelebrityU Radio, at 3pm Central time, with Travis Blythe from Corner6Labs.  Travis is a regular co-host on this show each week on Thursdays from 2-4PM  with host, Kathy Hines.  I will be on to talk about using Linkedin for business marketing from an entrepreneur’s perspective, and using Linkedin forRead more

The A-List Solutions team will be descending  on Madison, Wisconsin later this month to lead tracks at the TRU (The Recruiting Unconference) USA event on April 19th and 20th, 2010.  And if TRU London was any indication of how much fun USA will be then we are in for a real treat. This time aroundRead more

There are several Blog Talk Radio shows about Recruiting and HR these days.  How many is too many?  Or do we need more?  Do you have a favorite?  What makes a good show tick?  Chime in tonight on the #TNL (TalentNet Live) recruiting forum on Twitter.  Join host Craig Fisher (@fishdogs) and special guests, BlogRead more

"If you could only have one social network to use as your main tool in recruiting, which one would it be?"  This question was deftly posed to the panel by Chris Hoyt, the ending keynote speaker for the event at which I presented last week.  I was on a panel for Jobing.com’s Spring Symposium withRead more

Story from Craig Fisher Posted by Miriam Salpeter on Keppie CareersRecruiters don’t ease up during the holidays – neither should you – Original post on KeppieCareers.com Originally Published on December 2nd, 2009 If you are a regular reader, I hope you are already convinced that it’s important to job hunt during the holidays. Do youRead more

By Sarah Evans on Mashable.com  Sarah Evans is a public relations and new media consultant and speaker at Sevans Strategy. She also authors a PR and social media blog and is the founder of #journchat. Twitter’s new Lists feature is all the rage right now. There are probably already millions of lists, and that numberRead more

Colin Alsheimer (@levelten_colin on Twitter) of LevelTen Interactive recently invited me and Chris Hoyt, the Associate Director of Talent Attraction for AT&T (aka TheRecruiterGuy) into their offices to record a session for their weekly podcast, The Ten Spot. During the podcast, we share our top tips for job seekers in today’s economy, and share some recent trends inRead more

She didn’t actually grill me.  But Stephanie Lloyd did ask the appropriate questions to uncover some of my methods for social recruiting on Twitter.  In an interview posted yesterday on her blog, Radiant Veracity, we discuss some techniques that are helpful to both recruiters and job seekers. I have been networking with Stephanie for aRead more

Earlier this year I was introduced on Twitter to Tee Morris (@teemonster) by my good friend Annette Holland (@daNanner).  The next week I had a phone call with Tee to advise him on some career and branding issues.  He turned out to be a really great guy and even asked me to contribute my twoRead more