A presentation given to students at Manchester Metropolitan University during Employability Week on using social media to job hunt.

1. Using social media to job hunt Manchester Metropolitan University

2. Can you find jobs via social media?

3. I asked Twitter

5. Reach more relevant candidates

6. Get more coverage

10. Profile provided a good feel for the candidate’s personality and fit (28%)

12. Standing out from the crowd

15. Demonstrate a passion

16. Create relationships

17. Learn more

20. Website links

22. Leave your own opinion

24. Read their tweets

26. Look at RTd people

29. Follow official company accounts – they tweet the jobs first.

31. Allow you to keep in contact with ‘connections’

32. Share links and information

33. Promote your skills and experience

35. Photos

36. Professional content

38. Past jobs

40. Promote content

41. Join discussions

43. Display a passion and knowledge

44. Increase your knowledge- of industry and platforms

45. Promote this content via your social channels

46. Posterous/Tumblrinsight

48. Your work – “process story”

49. An industry event you’ve been to

50. Stuff that interests you

51. One or twice every two weeks

52. Check your spellinginsight

54. Only in very rare circumstances use Facebooki.e pagesinsight

56. Don’t feel like you have to do all at once

57. Stick with it