--- In asklizryan@yahoogroups.com, "Liz Ryan" <lizinboulder@ ...> wrote:
Dear friends,
Here's a new story on job-search networking - take a look! -
FIVE WAYS TO GROW YOUR JOB-SEARCH ARMY
(please leave a comment!): http://tinyurl.com/ogyxxr
Here's an excerpt:
Five Ways to Grow Your Job-Search Army
Someone just sent me a job posting and asked me to distribute it to all the job seekers I know. "Make sure and tell them," he added in a note, "that resumes will only be accepted through noon tomorrow." That's the 2009 job market -- positions open up and close again at lightning speed.
These days, you've got to jump on job openings when you hear about them. If you wait a couple of weeks to send a resume in response to a job you're interested in, the window of opportunity may already have slammed shut.
In a market like that, you can't assume that you'll hear about every promising job opening while it's still available. You've got to have other people serving as eyes and ears for you. Those other people, of course, are your friends, relatives, neighbors, and colleagues. But what's the best way to enroll your posse in your job-search army?
Here are five tips to get you started.
Update Your Profiles
If you're unemployed, make sure that your LinkedIn, Facebook, and other social-networking profiles make your job-search status perfectly clear. It's not enough to say, "I'm job-hunting." You need to tell your crew what you do, exactly. On a LinkedIn headline (that's the text box just under your name), you can say, "Consumer-Products Market Researcher ISO Next Challenge."
Keep reading here: http://tinyurl.com/ogyxxr
Thanks! Liz
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