Posts Tagged ‘personal branding’

Top 6 Online Employer/Recruiter Magnets

January 3rd, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

These days, the most effective way to find a job is to attract employers to you.  How can you do that?  By creating and maintaining public profiles on these 6 powerful Websites.  The payoff for you will be substantial and long-term.

The good news is that these sites are free for you to use, currently.  The bad news is that this will take some time and work to create and to manage.  Not a lot because much of what you create for one site (LinkedIn, for example) can be used with minor modifications on other sites.

In addition, these effort will pay off for you when you have captured the interest of a recruiter or potential employer who researches you to see what information is available about you on the Web because they will find these sites, often at the top of the first page of search results. (more…)

8 Twitter Power SEO Tips for Job Seekers

July 2nd, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

Recruiters and potential employers search Google for job candidates, even in this economy, and Google loves Twitter.  So, by leveraging search engine optimization (SEO) techniques in Twitter, you can make it easier for them to find you, not only in Twitter but also in Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.

As a job seeker, you want to be found if someone searches on the job title you want, your profession or industry, and also your name.  Your Twitter account will be helpful for you even after you’ve found that next job.  Recruiters and employers are always searching for good people, so this account can become a major long-term asset to your career:

  • People Googling your keywords (your job title, profession, industry, etc.) will find you because your Twitter account will appear in the search results, if you have used those keywords as described in the rest of this article.
  • People Googling your name will find your Twitter account in the search results if you have used your name as part of your Twitter identity.

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