How Your Friends Can Help in Your Job Search
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How Your Friends Can Help in Your Job Search
Contact Heather at [email protected]
Contact Heather at [email protected]
Introduction
• Your network is a vital resource in your job search. Are you leveraging your friends -- and their connections at organizations -- to get closer to your dream job?
• Today we’ll discuss how your friends, particularly those with whom you’re connected on Facebook, can help you job search and learn about job opportunities
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Networking Statistics
• More than one-half (sometimes estimated as high as 75-80 percent) of jobs available aren’t publicly posted, making networking a vital way to landing these opportunities – 51 percent of readers in a Business Pulse survey said they
got their current job through a personal referral
– A survey of more than 6,000 job seekers in the Northeast found that 45 percent of people found new jobs in 2010 through traditional person-to-person networking
– A recent study by CareerXroads Inc. found that one hire is made for every 10 referrals -- while one hire is made for every 219 applications through job boards
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How to Discover Helpful Friends
• Use Cachinko’s Job Matching & Career Networking Facebook app– Click on the “Friends” tab to see friends sorted by
relevance
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How to Discover Helpful Friends
• Update your network on your job search– Tell others where you’re applying or interviewing
– See who comments on your status or offers up information on your ideal companies
– Walk the fine line between persistence and pestering
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How to Discover Helpful Friends
• Start conversations – Write a status, attach a link or share a job opening with
your friends through Cachinko’s Job Matching & Career Networking app
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How to Discover Helpful Friends
• People search– Identify companies for which you’d like to work & find folks
that work at those organizations
– Use your existing social networks, along with Internet search engines & people search engines
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How to Discover Helpful Friends
• Connect with anyone you know well enough on social networking sites– Friends
– Family
– Acquaintances
– Former co-workers & supervisors
– Professors
– Classmates
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How to Discover Helpful Friends
• Reach out to individual folks within your industry– Instead of asking, “Do you know of any job opportunities in
our field?” ask if they know anyone at a specific company
– Do this through a private message on social networks, a phone call, or by asking them out to lunch or coffee
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How to Use Social Networks Effectively
• Complete your biography/profile– Include links to your professional portfolio, online resume,
blog, other social media profiles, etc.
– Share your “elevator pitch”
• Ask for recommendations
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• On Cachinko’s Facebookapp, click “Ask for Recommendation” and choose a friend to send a message to
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How to Social Networks Effectively
• Provide value to your contacts– No one wants to help someone who comes off as selfish
– If you see someone is searching for a job in your industry, help them by sharing a contact at a company or telling them about an unadvertised job opening
– Share content about your field regularly with your contacts
– Engage in conversations with connections
– Create mutually beneficial relationships before you need them
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Social Networking Etiquette
• Don’t overload your network with information on you & your job search– People are inclined to help others, but not when they’re
inundated with too much information
• Only send recommendation requests to those who you’ve worked with directly
• Use an appropriate picture– Preferably a smiling headshot
• Choose usernames carefully – Ideally, your first and last name
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Social Networking Etiquette
• Don’t send connection requests to everyone– Quality trumps quantity when it comes to networking
• Focus on sharing interesting information about your industry or niche
• Engage in conversations in groups, on pages and social platforms
• Be consistent– Spend time each day or week sharing content,
participating in communities, and updating your information
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Social Networking Etiquette
• Use each platform as it’s meant to be used– Don’t share the same information across networks or link
your accounts
• Share other’s content in addition to your own– It compels others to share your content and creates good
karma
• Chris Brogan wrote a comprehensive post about social media etiquette that’s worth a read
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Thank you!For more tips: blog.cachinko.com
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