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Social media is changing everything about how employers find workers and how workers find jobs. The hunt to match up people, skills, and jobs is moving online.
Someone who knows someone you know may send you a Jobvite for a job you didn't even apply for. Perhaps for a job that was never advertised anywhere. In Recruiting Via Your Employee's Socal Networks, in the New York Times, that pointed out,
Until recently, Facebook might have been more likely to be viewed as a barrier to getting a job. Cautionary tales circulate of job offers rescinded after an employer discovered unseemly content on an applicant’s Facebook page. Social network users have been advised to sanitize their personal pages when job hunting, lest potential employers spot an inappropriate photo or comment.
But now more personal pages, profiles and social networks are serving as fodder for companies looking to fill jobs.
Jennifer Leggio reported on a survey done by Jobvite in Survey shows influx of companies using social networks for recruiting.
The data shows that employers are more and more extensively recruiting on social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter. It also shows that the companies appear more satisfied with these types of recruits versus the ones they find solely from job boards.
As Elana Centor wrote about in Looking For A Job? Have You Told Your Friends On Twitter, LinkedIn and FaceBook? the jobs are not in the newspaper classifieds any longer. Britt Bravo mentioned the same group of web sites for job hunting in 6 Ways to Use the Web to Find a Nonprofit Job.
Social networking is the universe: the medium and the message. Social networking reduces the degree of separation between you and everyone else you can potentially reach. Sandra Fathi from tech affect talks about how social media has a multiplier effect on your Dunbar number in Finding a Job Throught Social Media.
Social media offers us opportunities to expand our Dunbar Number (theoretical number of sustainable social relationships that one person can maintain) from 150 to hundreds of thousands.
Career Communique Radio on Blog Talk Radio, a program co-hosted by Annemarie Cross and Keith Keller has a number of programs social media in a job hunt, including Twitter for Job Seekers and Taking your job search to the next level with Social Networking. Blog Talk Radio isn't the only source of career advice that urges both job seekers and employers to take to the social networks. Mashable features Top 10 Social Sites for Finding a Job and 7 Secrets to Getting Your Next Job Using Social Media.
Laid off people are joining together using social media to help each other find new employment. Some examples from the Seattle area are Eggsprout and a group formed by West Seattle Blog. The blog Lords and Ladies of Leisure, which attempts to lighten up a difficult situation, is by the same unemployed Seattlite as the West Seattle Blog. In Fear, shut yer pie hole she says,
It’s official: there’s no more hierarchy. There are no more titles. There’s definitely no ladder with endless ambiguous rungs to be climbed. Whatever you want to do, do it. It’s the 21st century, and there’s absolutely no reason not to.
If you have a couch, a coffeemaker, a laptop, and a couple kindred like-minded souls whose talents complement yours, congratulations, you’ve got a company. With the multitude of how-to’s and tutorials on the web, the amazing software available, and the ease with which you can now create business cards and websites, there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of you doing exactly what you want to do, exactly the way you want to do it.
Pam Mandel from Nerd's Eye View found a job through Twitter. She told me,
I found my last gig through The Twitter. I didn't blog about it, I don't blog work, but briefly, I mentioned that I was looking and a Twitter follower hooked me up -- the place she was working happened to be hiring for exactly what I do. I interviewed, they hired me. They didn't talk to any other candidates and the job was never listed anywhere.
I'd totally use The Twitter to mention that I needed work again.
From an employer perspective, Laura Scott from pingv told me,
We got great response from advertising a design position on Facebook. It was the only paid ad we ran, and because we could target so well,
it did not cost us much at
