How to Recruit with Facebook

How to Recruit with Facebook Facebook, with over a billion  potential candidates and candidate’s friend network as potential referrals, is a goldmine of untapped recruiting opportunities. Facebook is a great way to start building a talent community of candidates who are interested in working with your company. Our friends at Hire Rabbit have put together this useful presentation with stats and ideas to get you started with your social recruiting on the worlds largest social network. RELATED: How Disney and 5 other Top Employers Use Twitter to Recruit

Are You Consistently Perfect - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Are You Consistently Perfect - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career It is highly unlikely for anyone to be consistently perfect. And this is the number one reason we need to forgive errors of other people and equally important is to forgive ourselves. The improved approach is to learn from what went wrong to move past. The Problem Sometimes people provide angry responses toward others when they make an error. But showing anger serves no one well. One example was an email distributed twice due to an error made the first time. A recipient threatened the sender by email that to show how they are connected or he would contact the FTC. A friendly return email reminded the man of their social media connection. One further action was taken to wish him a happy new year! On the job and in business, the ability to look past unintentional errors and offering help is the smartest strategy of all. People appreciate the goodwill attitude, and even more the offer to help fix what went wrong. The law of attraction says what you put out into the world comes back. Stories recently shared show this to be true. One semi-humorous story was of a man being nasty to a woman who happened to be in his way. He was late for an important appointment and stressed. So instead of being polite, he said something rude. Thirty minutes later, you guessed it; the same woman walked into his office for their appointment. The meeting began on a bad footing and went downhill from there. Positive Attitude Everyday life in public suggests a positive attitude is required. Your attitude, negative or positive, is attached to your personal brand and affects your reputation. Another factor to consider is containment of stress. Those clued into reading body language and facial expressions can instantly spot stress. The problem with allowing stress to take over is that it will kill any chance of getting a sale or a new job. The reason stress kills opportunity is that your buyer or hiring manager believe you are only there for the money versus being there to be of service. It’s a rare human being who is happy 100% of the time or believes everything in their path is perfect. But those who succeed use these strategies to improve their outcomes: * Learn from errors * Persevere to try again * Reframe negative thought into positive * Ask questions and listen to answers to gain the perspectives of others * Exercise before appointments to increase adrenaline and positive thought These five actions increase energy flow on multiple levels for the result of reducing worry. Stress fades away due to embracing a more positive attitude. As one walks into appointments, a smile welcomes an in-depth conversation. Whenever a change of any type occurs, errors are bound to happen. The first person to forgive is yourself. Once comfortable with reconciling the mistake, it becomes far easier to forgive the errors of others. Sales Tips: 1. Forgive your errors. 2. Allow errors of others to go or help fix. 3. Be polite with everyone, even when difficult. 4. Offer help whenever possible. 5. Train yourself to convert negative thought into positive. 6. Smile more. 7. Listen more. 8. Willingly exchange perspectives. 9. Continue to persevere. 10. Celebrate Success!

Is School Putting Girls Off Tech

Is School Putting Girls Off Tech This post is sponsored by Technically Compatible.   Turns out that as a subject more girls like coding than boys AND more want to do IT work experience, so why the gender gap? Only 11% of girls plan to continue studying ICT and it’s not just the gender split in the tech industry that’s a problem but a full sector-wide skills issue. The team at  Technically Compatible has gone straight to the next generation to find out how they view tech and what we can do now to encourage our future workforce in a bid to plug the gap before it’s too late. This is what we found, some of it may surprise you. What really matters? Making a difference and being creative are the two most important attributes for teenagers. Tech can answer both. Can we position the industry more favourably towards these to attract the younger generation? Young people have no idea what the paths to entry or what a tech career looks like nor where to find this information. Tech doesn’t just mean programming â€" how can we better show off the huge variety there is in the tech sector to Gen Z? Work experience works code clubs dont We learned 67% of teenagers who have done work experience say it’s had a positive effect on their thoughts of a future career in IT. Meanwhile, 10% more teenagers think tech is cooler than IT. Time for a rebrand? Only 22% of teenagers who have been part of a coding club still attend (and only 22% of teenagers have ever been part of one). Code clubs are clearly not the answer. Tech perceptions vs. preferences Science is the second most popular subject after Creative for girls. Creative is the second for boys, after Technical. 78% of those surveyed did not have a parent / guardian working in IT but those that do are 25% more likely to engage in tech/coding activity outside the classroom. Teenagers are interested in tech that is relevant to them. i.e. engaging them in the workings of social media or gaming would make a huge difference in peaking their interest in IT. Only 11% wouldn’t consider a career in tech (and there was no difference between the sexes in those that said no). This shows that they’re certainly open to it, and understand the importance of it but they don’t know how to get into it or if 1) they’d be good at it and 2) it would be something they enjoyed. What does this mean? It’s about taking the first steps to getting kids interested in tech and adjusting their perceptions to see the fun side of it, that it’s not rocket science and that they can change the world with it. They’ve already identified these but need some encouragement from the industry to give definite understanding that Sally can combine science and technology to carve out her dream career, that John can be a soldier and thrive in the army with his coding skills, that Megan can be hugely creative by building an app that thousands want to download and Mark can change the world by developing technology that creates clean water from stagnant pools. Inspiring kids with the endless possibilities that technology provides at their fingertips is the first step to attracting more interest in the industry and closing that much talked about skills gap. About the author:  Technically Compatible is an online IT skills testing tool designed to streamline the recruitment of IT, web and software professionals. The platform is used by companies all over the world to hire top tech talent. Through a combination of flexible question types, auto scored code challenges and weighted technologies, Technically Compatible allows employers to spend time with only the right candidates, significantly reducing screening time and promoting faster, better hiring decisions.

Taking the first steps to a career in advertising a 2012 graduates story University of Manchester Careers Blog

Taking the first steps to a career in advertising a 2012 graduates story University of Manchester Careers Blog Name: Sophie Age: 24 Degree: BSC (Hons) Management (Marketing), 2012, The University of Manchester Current job: Marketing Assistant at The University of Manchester About to start a new job as: Junior Planner at advertising agency BJL Looking back over the past year is quite surreal…It’s gone faster than any year before, yet so much has happened. Pre-graduation I definitely had real-life fear. People I knew were getting jobs, onto grad schemes, planning elaborate traveling adventures, and I was going home to my mum and dads house to watch the Olympics and trawl the internet for employment inspiration. So when I was asked if I wanted to write a post about my experiences since graduation I thought that hopefully I could inspire a little bit of optimism in 2013’s grads that are in a similar situation to the one I found myself in, and show that everything will come together in the end! Finding my first job I wasn’t certain of much career-wise when I graduated but luckily I did have something to go on: I knew that I loved Manchester and I was very interested in communications. Armed with these vague criteria I searched for related jobs in the North West and eventually came across a Manchester Graduate Internship Programme (MGIP) role that really appealed to me and after applying and interviewing I was hired as a Marketing Assistant Intern in August 2012. It’s important to note that at the same time I sent off what feels like hundreds of other emails and applications to companies all over Manchester without much luck, you get there eventually, I promise! Focussing my ideas My internship has taught me so much about working life and most importantly it gave me the opportunity to discover exactly what I was interested in, what I was good at and what I definitely didn’t like. Over the year I began to realise that my interest in communications was actually most focused on an interest in advertising. I tried to learn as much as I could about the industry through online magazines, agency open evenings and The Institute of Practioners in Advertising (IPA) Open Day to get a better understanding of what roles I would be suited to. I was lucky in that my office was full of people with great industry contacts and a genuine willingness to help new graduates develop.   With their guidance I applied to attend a graduate open evening at Manchester based advertising and PR agency BJL and was successful. The evening provided me with real insight into the different job roles and we got the chance to do a mini brief in teams and present back to some people at the company. It was a great evening and really made it clear for me that this was an industry I wanted to get into but hearing how competitive it was, it felt near impossible! Getting experience After following up with the evening’s organisers to thank them, I was delighted to get a response asking if I’d be interested in a two week placement. Thankfully my managers in my current job were supportive and generously gave me the leave to take the placement on. At the time I was excited about the opportunity, but didn’t realise just how crucial a turning point it would be in my ‘professional life’ (inverted commas used here because I still don’t feel like a real grown-up just yet). The placement gave me the opportunity to see the work of an Account Manager and a Planner and gave me an invaluable insight into how an agency operates and splits its clients and workloads. It left me feeling excited as I finally knew what career path I wanted to follow and understanding more about how the industry operated made me more positive that I could actually get in somewhere. Applying for jobs again I went back to my MGIP role   for the remaining months of my contract, began applying for Account Executive roles in Manchester and also got back in touch with BJL. With a little stroke of luck they were looking for a new Account Executive and a new Junior Planner. I interviewed for both positions as I knew I’d enjoy either. They felt I’d be most suited to a planning role as I’m very methodical by nature, a valuable trait when doing lots of research and analysis! So, I have one week left at the University on my MGIP before I begin as a Junior Planner, a bittersweet feeling as I’m so excited to get started on my advertising adventure but I’ll be sad to leave a role that has taught me a great deal and given me a lot more confidence in my strengths. Advice If you have just graduated and aren’t sure of your perfect career path, (does that even exist), dont put pressure on yourself! A job you take now doesn’t have to be, and probably won’t be, your ‘forever’ job. Any graduate level role that appeals to you will be beneficial. It could end up highlighting an area you grow to love or simply show you something you definitely don’t want to pursue any further â€" either way I’d advocate the benefits of short term internships to all new graduates, it really gave me the chance to see where I’d fit, as cheesy as that sounds! Are you a Manchester graduate with a story to tell about your early career? Would you like to contribute your experience to this blog? Email careers.info@manchester.ac.uk FAO Holly. All Graduate Advertising Getting started Internships job hunting MGIP Options work experience

How Not to Let Social Media Ruin Your Career

How Not to Let Social Media Ruin Your Career A professional Social Media profile will definitely impress any employer. It is a must for the employers to check the applicants’ profiles from which they can extract a selective candidate list, to give the opportunity of an interview.Not to forget to mention that most known recruitment companies have a whole department who is responsible for generating great professional profiles from social media, in order to deliver the suitable person and to satisfy their clients.In order for each of you to be selected in the market as the right person to cover a job vacancy, you should be very careful on how you will promote yourself out there.evalBased on a recent survey 1 in 5 employers had rejected candidates for an interview based on an inappropriate profile. Imagine you are having a party, getting drunk, posting pictures with friends or posting a picture of you in bikini; there are definitely lot of moments which are more personal than public, although you may choose to make them seen by all, that could be a mistake, in case you are trying to get a good impression from an employer.It’s not only about what you post, what do you follow, like, read, but it is as well about having good references, list of skills and abilities, connection especially on your LinkedIn page. The possibilities to promote yourself in those pages is wide, although you need to be very careful on how you will do that, what kind of mistakes you can avoid in order to give a plus on your business icon.To begin, you may start with a small detail which increases a lot of traffic in your profile. You need to choose the right adequate picture, which highlights your strong business characteristic, by showing straight body standing, determinate and strong look, dressed formal and taking care to keep the hand either crossed or at least holding something, but try not to let them down or in your pockets.After you have the appropriate picture, it is good to put it as a profile picture especially on Faceboo k, twitter, and LinkedIn. If you own all those pages, try to keep the same profile, in order to make it as more professional and easy to be found. This action is like branding your face into social media.It much easier to be liked and find through one image, but don’t forget to update it time to time, especially when you seek for specific jobs, try to fit it with the job which you’re applying. If you have the different picture in those mentioned social pages, it may lead to confusion the employer to create a specific image of you.Facebook is the page, where you usually you tend more to post personal moments by sharing them in public. Take a few minutes to set up the privacy on your Facebook page. If you don’t want your future employer seeing your personal life, you need to set all your privacy settings to a group of contacts by being very selective who you will let to view your Facebook profile.It is known that Facebook profiles are searchable on search engines, and they’ve also started at least allowing status updates to be crawled and indexed on Google and the search engine. As result, your name can be easily googled.evalClean up your profile history and general behavior when job hunting. Try to remember that a posting: “I got wasted last night and woke up in unknown place”, will definitely impact on your application.Imagine you’re the employer and you are seeking for a decent employee would you choose to hire him/her to your company? As an employer, you use a decent person who can represent properly your business. If you think as an employer you will never be wrong.Engage people who do a similar job. The connections that you have in a unique channel, may lead to the wanted employer. Be selective with who you follow or get in connection and try to extend that list to go near to your main goal. If you have a specific company in your mind then so to whom this company is connected, and make a research for its followers, partners, and clients.Just imagine the sources you may come across to you once you make your homework. So, why not to become the expert and search as well for events, conferences that the target company is holding or participating, and try to attend to them. Extract information through social media and be a trustful image for an employer.evalShow your background education and experience, by demonstrating that you have skills and the right experience for the job. Think about the skills, interests or activities that represent your values and add those to your social media channels. Your social media channels play the role of a resume uploaded online, and ready to be accessed and view by who ever come across to your profile.Try to avoid posts that indicates complain of your previous employer! It’s not professional and ethical to post that, without having discussed or tried to find a solution for your problem. Keep it to you, as an experience and learn the best from it.The last thing which is good to make it as an asset to your social media profiles is the content writing that you post and share. Be careful with grammar mistakes, what you share, sometimes with quote posting! You can check some list of services for help. The mistakes that you may do, is a minus on your skills and abilities if you are looking to work in an office and not only.As you may see, social media is a key factor of extracting information, creating connection and relation with the business world. You update your profile, get the right information and launch yourself out there with a great content of yourself, but please don’t forget to put you contact details in order the other to come in touch professionally to you. It is good to follow those pieces of advice in order to avoid the mistakes of non-doing the right settings and adding to your profile.

Is a Top MBA Really Worth It - CareerAlley

Is a Top MBA Really Worth It - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. In response to the economic troubles of the last few years, many professionals have decided to go back to school to earn their MBA. But with so many professionals enrolling in MBA programs, does this once-exclusive degree even promise the professional advantages it once did? Lets Cut to the Chase- MBAs are Expensive Its impossible to discuss the worth of an MBA without first laying out the dollars-and-cents expenses and earnings associated with acquiring one of these degrees. MBAs cost a lot of money to acquire. Enrollment in most 2 year MBA programs will set you back $80,000 to $100,000 for tuition alone. Add living expenses to your calculations and youll need to account for an additional $30,000 worth of debt. Factor in the income you lost by spending those 2 years unemployed, and the true cost of an MBA rings up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yet tuition costs and missed income opportunities represent only half of the worth equation detailing your degrees worth- the other half of the equation relates to what your new degree promises you. Most MBA programs will tell you their degree will all but guarantee you a job offering a combination of starting salary and perks totaling north of $150,000 a year. They will tell you it will take you just a few years to fully earn back your educational investment, after which your MBA will net you a salary bump large enough to more than justify your degrees initial expense. And all of this is true provided, of course, you earn your degree from one of the countrys top MBA programs. Not All MBAs Are Created Equal To meet the demand for advanced business degrees, countless new MBA programs have sprung up over the last couple of years. Most of these new programs are either 1-year degrees, or they are offered by poorly ranked public universities. When you run the numbers, even accounting for the lower cost of enrolling in one of these programs, most of them dont offer the same long-term financial benefits as their seemingly more expensive counterparts. While nearly every MBA program in the world promises you a $150,000-a-year job right after graduation, the only programs that can make this claim with any shred of honesty are schools whose MBA programs rank among the top 50 in the country, and the only MBA programs that can actually guarantee high-paying employment on the strength of their name alone are those MBA programs who consistently find themselves ranked within the countrys top 10- the Harvards and the Columbias and the MITs of the world. In fact, according to a recent survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council, only 27% of recent 1 year MBA graduates received job offers or found themselves currently employed when surveyed, compared with 29% just last year and 47% in 2008.The modern business climate has created a palpable level of employment uncertainty among practically all MBA graduates, but, statistically speaking, graduates of both 1-year programs and lower ranked programs have absorbed the brunt of our current economic downturn as it relates to individuals with advanced business degrees. All of this data creates a complicated picture of just how worthwhile a modern MBA actually is. If you acquire an MBA from a top-ranked school, then yes,your MBA will absolutely offer a reliable entry into higher quality, higher paying employment opportunities. But if the MBA program youre considering has failed to crack the top 50, you should probably pursue alternative options for professional advancement. Author Byline The post is authored by Jason Phillips, he provide tips on how to get into harvard mba. He is an expert who can suggest you tip like what you can do to set yourself apart in your application. This is a Guest post. If you would like to submit a guest post to CareerAlley, please follow these guest post guidelines. Good luck in your search. Visit me on Facebook

Grown Up Gigs writer, speaker and advocate Esmé Wang - When I Grow Up

Grown Up Gigs writer, speaker and advocate Esmé Wang - When I Grow Up I love pretty much everything about my former client and dear friend Esmé Wang. I love her decision to not to follow the norm in being a writer (i.e. doing something unfulfilling to pay the bills while they were writing). I love how her public passion project turned into a job offer that aligned with her strengths and interests. I love how she woke up at 4am to work on her novel when she had said full-time job. And I most love how very transparent, honest and vulnerable she is about her mental health challenges, why it prompted her to start her own biz, and how shes able to make her business work day-to-day. Youre gonna love this interview, especially since its proceeded by a Thats A Career?! segment! Links for All The Things spoken about in this interview: Win the Center Lovell Inn here and read more about it here D***s By Mail Johanna Basfords site and FAQs The adult preschools site (its called Preschool Mastermind) and on Buzzfeed The Declaration of You Esmes site, Instagram account, her Rawness of Remembering e-course and the offering on creating from your passions, Wheres the Electricity? (not free like she mentioned, but still amazeballs!) Modcloth, where Esme was a copywriter Grace Quantock, who works with entrepreneurs who have chronic illnesses Next up on the Grown Up Gigs podcast?  Katherine Gressel, Founder and Live Event Artist at Event Paintings by Katherine, on April 16th!