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Thursday 15 August 2013

Social Media Will help you to get job

Social media Boom in Job sector

Let you connect to the company

Social media offers you an amazing platform to connect to the company you are looking to work for. This boosts the chances of you getting hired by them if you are already connected to them on any social networking site. While researching about the company on their social media pages try being interactive and respond to their updates it could be anything retweeting on twitter or liking their post on facebook, leaving a comment and so on. You never know who might be watching as these days many recruiters tend to find talent via social networking sites rather than finding them on the traditional job sites.



Provide data for Help

Almost a decade ago for an instance if you had to know about the company of your friend you had to put in a lot of effort to ask them and remember it. But now social media help you gather all such information just by a click of mouse and you really don’t need to mug them up even. Now you tend to have all the information on your fingertips. So if you are interested in working your friend’s company you would not need to go through big hassles in researching the details. This was just an example of how social media offers you an abundance of real time data that you can use to your advantage.


JOB search application

Social media offers a plethora of tools and applications through which you can search for job be it on your computer or the mobile. These applications allow you to see the companies near your current locations and the vacancies if they have any.



By building online Influence


Earlier approximately a decade ago, if you had mastered any of the hard skills you were sure to get a job. However gradually things changed and the situation now is that because of the very high competition you can’t make it until and unless you are good at some new set of skills such as communication, organization leadership etc. Not just that at present apart from being good at hard and soft skills you need to develop online influence as when two candidates two candidates are equally good at hard and soft skills the recruiter will consider their online influence to make a distinction.
As far as the online influence is concerned it is assessed by so many factors such as the number of connections you have, how influential are they, is your content getting shared , if yes then by how many people and so on. Besides, there are various sites that help you measure the online influence and make the task easier for the employers at the same time. The main reason behind employers considering the online influence is that it will always be better to hire somebody who is already well-known by their target audience. It is believed by them that the candidates with a better online influence can generate better results, bring more and more business to the company and market their brand better than those who do not possess a good online influence.
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