Comments on: Your LinkedIn Profile Name – Active Job Seeker. The Right Strategy for the Unemployed?

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Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:18:20 +0000

[...] their advertisements and self-promoting messages, I see some job seekers doing the same thing by blasting the message that they are unemployed in their LinkedIn profile name and status update or mass sending of their resumes to everyone in their network. The most [...]

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10 Tips for Integrating Social Media and LinkedIn in to Your Job Search in 2011 — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:21:06 +0000

[...] you should advertise the fact that you are unemployed, I believe that putting titles like “Actve Job Seeker” after your name only devalue your brand. It is unfortunate, but studies have shown that [...]

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By: Roger E Hawkins

Roger E Hawkins — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:00:47 +0000

RT @CareerGoods: RT @nealschaffer Your LinkedIn Profile Name – Active Job Seeker. The Right Strategy for the Unempl.. http://bit.ly/dz7D9T #LinkedIn, #Job

By: Elle Samuel

Elle Samuel — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:00:31 +0000

RT @nealschaffer Your LinkedIn Profile Name – Active Job Seeker. The Right Strategy for the Unempl.. http://bit.ly/dz7D9T #LinkedIn, #Job

By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:33:50 +0000

Jason, I'll be in Japan THIS MONTH! I'll be in touch with you soon It's all about the Windmill Networking!

By: Jason Ball

Jason Ball — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:28:32 +0000

Oh, yes. Didn't mean to forget the importance of your LinkedIn or other profile/presentation to the world. If that is not right the conversation, the access to the people you hope to will not happen!

Thanks for all of your excellent articles Neal. SO sorry I missed somehow, your last visit to Japan.

NEXT TIME, lets catch up in person. Indeed I love this part of connecting with new people online the most - meeting them in person and getting to know who they are, sharing how we might do some stuff together where we have rapport, possible synergy!

By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:45:37 +0000

Jason, thank you for your passionate and excellent comment. Indeed, if social media is a continuing conversation, it are blog comments like yours that enliven the conversation and also add new insight for everyone, which I am sincerely grateful for. I agree that it's all about communicating. There is something to be said for the “inbound marketing” of optimizing your LinkedIn profile, but in life we can never wait for things to happen and instead should be proactively building out our networks by networking outside of our networks…which is what the whole concept of Windmill Networking is all about.

Thanks again, Jason, and I do hope to meet you in Japan on my next trip out your way!

By: Jason Ball

Jason Ball — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:26:21 +0000

The thing that makes me shake my head to this strategy of announcing to the world you're a Job Seeker, is it is not Active. Social media is not SEO, and SEO is over hyped anyway (it also being passive, waiting for technology to bring on in all the opportunities while you sit back and do nothing but hope - clearly an exaggeration, but...)

Social Media is a free and open communication tool, not a panacea and not a pseudo evolution of the job board (post and hope) in this area.

It's people who hire people and here you have in you hands a communication and agreed protocol for approaching almost anyone who uses Social Media, and you want to sit back and wait for opportunities to come to you!? *shakes head* (see)

While I'm on it, Recruiters are paid by companies to find exact (as possible) match Candidates for roles - not to get people Jobs. Sure, research who are the best in your area of expertise, gain confidence in which recruiters to approach and do approach them, but relying on Recruiters is again a passive way to find a job (still effective for some, many in fact, and I'm not saying take it out of a Job search strategy).

Social Media is a Conversation - get out there and communicate! Reach out, build relationships, show value, and over time, yes time, make sure those people you connect with know how they can help you. (ie. meet people who work for, or might lead you to for example. DON'T just tell people 'I'm looking for a job'. Be specific, keywords, companies and individual's names in line with your strategy to get the exact role you want or close to it).

Seeking a job in these times might be harder than in the past... to sit back and have it come to you (or never be out of work in the first place), but what an opportunity we have now to go out and make it happen for ourselves.

And yes, the role I have now came directly from social media networking, engaging my business network, online yes but then in person, and it was a pop up chat from a connection that lead to me getting the contract I now have.

By: JasonBall_GoodPeople

JasonBall_GoodPeople — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:29:55 +0000

RT @barbarasafani: Is your employment brand "unemployed"? Brilliant post by @nealschaffer http://bit.ly/Tq3N6