The document outlines strategies for using social media to enhance job searching effectiveness, emphasizing the importance of a professional online presence. It provides eleven practical tips, including optimizing LinkedIn profiles, using Twitter for networking, and seeking recommendations from former colleagues. The author encourages creativity and persistence in the job search process.

2. Use social
media to
get a

3. @pgezerlis

5. ooops
wrong
problem

7. Greek
unemployment
rate
(Oct ‘11)

8. Greek
unemployment
rate for <25yr
(Oct ‘11)

11. Why use Social Media
to get a job?

12. Most important reason:
The smart people are using it to get a job!

14. 11 ways to use Social
Media to get a job…

15. 1
Clean up your social presence from those precious moments in life….
(Make photos like this private!)

16. 2
Create your LinkedIn profile, and make it look awesome!

17. BTW, many people are doing it…
LinkedIn has 5 million members

18. actually that was 5 yrs
ago, LinkedIn now has
150 million
members in
200 countries (as of Feb ’12)

19. 3
Learn nice details about the person who will interview you

20. • Put your job pitch in your Twitter bio (which is 160 chars)
• Use a professional looking avatar
• Tweet about your job search
4
• Utilize your Twitter background
• Include a link to an online CV
• Establish yourself as an expert in your field on Twitter

21. (you think this
happens only
in the
US, huh?)
Meet
Victoria
(hired at buldoza.gr, after tweeting them)

22. 5
Look actively for job matching your criteria (and also your network!)

23. 6
Ask your ex colleagues & employers to recommend you

24. (you think a written
recommendation is
no big deal, huh?)
Meet
Kiriaki
(now eCommerce manager at a big Clothes Wholesaler
and she’s only 24!)

25. 7
Find info on glassdoor.com about salaries & job reviews…

26. 8
…also on glassdoor.com you can sneak in past interview questions
(and sometimes, the answers)

27. 9
• links
Include links to your social media presence in your resume
(allow your prospect employer find out more about you)

28. 10
Start writing a blog (or guest posts on other blogs).
(Show the world you can be an expert in your field!)

29. 11
Add your twitter name in your CV
(Show the world you know your social media stuff, dude!)

30. Allow me to offer 3 advices?

31. Be creative in your quest to find
a job ;-) (see 1min YouTube video on next slide)

32. Job seeking & finding is not all
Social Media stuff of course…

33. Υπομονή & Επιμονή

34. Feel free to
contact me
(presentation on slideshare.com)
@pgezerlis