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Social Media: How to Supply Your Facebook Information to Potential Employers Without Sacrificing Privacy

March 27th, 2012

By Elizabeth Brosuga

Recent news reports revealed that many employers are now requesting access to the Facebook pages of their potential employees as a part of their screening process. While some interviewees see no issue with this practice, others are crying foul, saying that even the request for such information represents a significant infringement on personal privacy.  Still others see the practice as manipulative, such as when an employer makes the volunteering of Facebook information from a prospective employee mandatory in order to be considered a viable candidate for employment. » Read more: Social Media: How to Supply Your Facebook Information to Potential Employers Without Sacrificing Privacy

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Social Media: How to Interact (i.e. what to say) with Recruiters Part 4 of 4

October 21st, 2011

By Cleo Kirkland

Cleo continues his series on using Twitter to find a job.  To read the other articles in the series click here:  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

You’ve learned how to find them.  You’ve learned how to attract them.  And you’ve learned how to optimize your profile, so that they’ll want to contact you.  All that’s left is to learn how to how to “speak” to them.  Although Twitter is a rather informal social media platform, being too informal could turn a recruiter off; on the other hand, being too polite may make them think that you just don’t get it.  The following are a few tips to follow when interacting with recruiters.

Tip # 1 “@Mention” them before Direct Messaging them

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Social Media: How to Attract Recruiters using Inbound Marketing, Part 3 of 4

October 19th, 2011

By Cleo Kirkland

In part 1 and 2 we covered the basics.  We covered how to optimize your profile and how to find the recruiters once your profile is optimized.  Now, it’s time for the heavy lifting.

Attracting recruiters to your profile isn’t easy.  There are millions of profiles out there just like yours, and, more importantly, the tools for searching these profiles aren’t as advanced as most recruiters would like.

There are, however, a few things you can do.  Below is a list of my favorite tactics for helping others get found—quickly.  Add any other inbound techniques that work on Twitter to the comments section.

Tip # 1 Use Follower Wonk to get a lot of followers » Read more: Social Media: How to Attract Recruiters using Inbound Marketing, Part 3 of 4

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