Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Top Social Media Tools to use [carefully] in a Job Search!


Using the list of reasons to use Social Media provided by Lilach Bullock in her blog on Social-Able of Top 10 Reasons to use Social Media I thought it would be a good starting point for job seekers or career transition people; so, from Lilach’s reason list we have:

Reason To Use Social Media

  1. Build relationships
  2. Network with like-minded people
  3. Drive traffic to our website(s)
  4. Sell our service/products
  5. Show our expertise
  6. Get support & motivation
  7. Organise & promote events
  8. Integrate with other websites
  9. An alternative to a website
  10. Monitor your brand awareness



Some of the Tools to utilize to support the ‘Reason’

1)      LinkedIn, Google+, Quora, Facebook, Twitter, Plaxo, Gist, Blog, Vizualize.Me, 

Slideshare, Box.Net, BranchOut, Hootsuite, Bit.ly, goo.gl, Mirror.Me, BeKnown

2)      LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Quora, BeKnown, Gist, Plaxo, Ning, Xing, RSS, 

Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, Bit.ly, goo.gl

3)      About.Me, Skillpages, Twitter, RSS, Prezi, Tumblr

4)      LinkedIn, About. Me, Facebook, Twitter, Indeed, Social-Hire, Wordle, Tumblr, Bit.ly, 

Goo.gl

5)      LinkedIn (Groups, Answers), Google+, 

Blog. Slideshare, Skillpages, Talent.Me, 

Quora, Prezi, Tumblr, Mirror.Me

6)      Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Quora, 

Blog

7)      Eventbrite, LinkedIn, Facebook, 

Google+, Plancast, Twitter, Box.Net, Bit.ly, 

goo.gl

8)      Google+, Twitter, Box Net, RSS, Dropbox, Box.Net, Slideshare

9)      Blog, Google, About.Me, Tumblr

10)    Google Alerts, iGoogle, Hootsuite, Tweetdeck

The list is by no means complete, new and/or improved ones are appearing.  If you know of others and would like to share them – with your thoughts – please do.