4. ABOUT THIS TOPIC
Employing Social Media VT has been created to share thoughts, ideas, and tips
about the evolving role of social media in today’s job market. Due to the ever
changing advancements in technology and the increasing usage of social
media in today’s culture it has become an inevitable communication tool for
seeking employment, advancing your current job, recruiting, and evaluating
prospective employees. We must now rethink, relearn and re-resume so that
we can keep our foot in the door. My goal of this blog is to explore and share
the tools and possibilities available in social media that will help you find
employment in the digital age.
5. TARGET
AUDIENCE
My content focused on people who are searching for a new
job and could use information, inspiration and tips about
using social media to assist their job hunting efforts.
6. CONTENT
• SlideShare presentation about
the purpose of the blog.
• Youtube video that shows
local experience and tips
• Blog post & infographic made
from Social recruiting data
• Social media resume idea
• Social media preparations for
the job hunt
• Reinforcing the growth of
social media blog post
8. PIN AND COLLECT THE IMAGES AND INFOGRAPHICS,
AND SLIDESHARE PRESENTATIONS THAT I MADE.
RESEARCH INFOGRAPHICS AND SOURCE IMAGES
INSPIRATION
http://pinterest.com/quinlanmik
e/employing-social-media/
Employing Pinterest
9. I USED HOOTSUITE TO MONITOR MY
SOCIAL MEDIA STREAMS FOR MY
EMPLOYING SOCIAL MEDIA WORDPRESS,
FACEBOOK COMMUNITY PAGE, AND
@EMPLOYSOCIALVT TWITTER HANDLE
Employing HOOTSUITE
10. I LINKED MY DELICIOUS PAGE @MIKEQUINLAN
TO MY BLOG TO BOOKMARK AND SHARE MY
SOURCES FOR MY PROJECT AND FOR MY
AUDIENCE AS A JOB HUNTER RESOURCEhttps://delicious.com/mi
kequinlan
Employing Delicious.com
11. I STARTED A YOUTUBE CHANNELAND POSTED
THE VIDEO THAT I MADE ON MY EMPLOYING
SOCIAL MEDIA BLOG
http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=uIEBH9yoHow&fea
ture=youtu.be
Employing Youtube.com
12. I CREATED A FACEBOOK PAGE THAT LINKS TO
AND FROM MY BLOG AND TWITTER ACCOUNT.
I POSTED UPDATES ON NEW CONTENT AND
LINKS FOR DIFFERENT SITE LIKE MY PINTEREST
Employing Facebook
https://www.facebook.co
m/employingsocialmedia
13. I CREATED THE TWITTER HANDLE
@EMPLOYSOCIALVTAND FOLLOWED JOB
POSTINGS AND INFORMATION THAT WAS
RELEVANT TO MY BLOG. I SHARED ALL OF MY
CONTENT AND TWEETED IN RELATION TO JOBS
Employing
Twitter
https://twitter.com/em
ploysocialVT
14. I LEARNED HOW TO USE SLIDESHARE AND
MADE A FUN PRESENTATION TO EXPLAIN THE
PREMISE OF MY SUBJECT
Employing SlideShare
www.slideshare.net/Mi
keQuinlan2/social-final
15. I UPDATED MY LINKEDIN PROFILE AND MADE
CONNECTIONS. I CONTACTED SOME OF THOSE
NEW CONNECTIONS FOR MY VIDEO INTERVIEWS.
THIS WILLALWAYS BE AN ONGOING PROCESS.
Employing LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/i
n/quinlanmike/
16. WORDPRESS WAS MY PLATFORM OF CHOICE
FOR MY BLOG CONTENT. I CHOSE TO RELEASE
ALL OF MY MATERIAL WITHIN A 10 DAY PERIOD
TO CONDENSE THE RESULTS. I TRIED POSTING
EVERYDAY OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST WEEK.
Employing Wordpress
http://employsocialme
dia.wordpress.com/
17. • I tried my best to employ my advice that I blogged about to my own
social media profiles
• I made connections with people on LinkedIn and updated my profile.
• Used my social media sites to communicate with them
• Updated all of my profile pictures to be consistent
• Made posts and shared blog content on Twitter and Facebook
• Integrated Blog with every appropriate “tool and platform”
SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS
Credits & Inspiration:
C.C. Chapman and Ann
Handley
Brian Solis
Chris Brogan
Dan Zarrella
Barbara Dozetos
Dawn Santos
Jacob Robinson
Amie O'Brien
Jennifer O'Donnell
Christopher Carrara
Vanessa Doody
Kristen Gagnon
Natalie Elvidge
Melanie White
Emily Tobi
Nathan Brown
Avery Hammond
18. SOURCES USED:
VIEW MORE @MIKEQUINLAN - DELICIOUS.COM
Some Sources/works cited:
• recruiting.jobvite.com
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlideShare
• http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/6376/Data-Shows-Presentations-With-
More-Slides-Get-Viewed-More-on-SlideShare.aspx
• http://www.slideshare.net/EmilandDC/how-i-landed-a-job-with-slideshare
• http://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/really-ugly-resumes
• US Department of Labor (Jolt reports)
• PEW research institute
• reputation.com
19. LOOKING AHEAD
I will continue blogging this topic on these upcoming posts:
Market yourself for your job hunting campaign
Get LinkedIn already
Communities for job seekers to connect
Top 3 social media sites for getting employed
(Indeed).
Success stories from the unemployed trenches
20. THANK YOU FOR VIEWING THE
EMPLOYING SOCIAL MEDIA PROJECT!
I am currently awaiting a response from a potential
employer because of a LinkedIn connection that I
made during this project!