See How Easily You Can Go Too Far With Social Recruting - CareerAlley

See How Easily You Can Go Too Far With Social Recruting - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie Biography : This is a guest post fromGenevive Hon, a Community Manager at matchFWD, a social recruiting startup and also Employer Marketing Coordinator at Illico Hodes. She has a bachelors degree in Public Relations from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). She recently collaborates with Montreal Tech Watch to cover some tech events. e-mail : [emailprotected] How To Avoid Crossing The Line In Social Recruiting Savvy hiring managers know that running a slick social recruiting campaign is one of the best ways to land premium candidates. Seasoned recruitment pros also understand that there is a fine line when it comes to employees referrals, and crossing that line will undermine recruiting strategies and damage corporate reputations. Heres how to make a social recruiting campaign both fruitful and professional: Make A Plan: Before hiring managers begin to use social media tools as a way to source candidates, it is important to develop a solid plan of attack. Employees referrals are a valuable tool when is comes to recruiting, but without a plan, you run the risk of appearing sloppy and disorganized. Establish Your Image:Even though social media is often considered to be a tool for casual, friendly interaction between friends and family members it is important that online recruitment remains consistent with your corporate image. Seek to strike a balance between friendly and professional in your social media image (think casual Fridays). Dont Be Creepy: There are many tools available that allow hiring managers (and anyone else, for that matter) to search through social media history and profiles; proceed with caution. These tools can easily be used to cross the line to cyber-stalking, a sure-fire way to bring a complete stop to any employees referrals while quickly earning a big-brother corporate image. Be Interactive: Social media is an interactive tool, so make sure you maximize opportunities to talk with, rather than simply talk at, potential candidates through your social recruiting campaign. Remember that people will be judging your company based on how you treat potential employees, so now is the time to establish a tone of positive, interactive and timely communication. Follow these tips when developing your next social recruiting campaign to ensure your company image is maintained while you source your next great candidate. By focusing on positive, professional recruiting strategies you will encourage employees referrals while promoting your corporate image and culture. This is a Guest post. If you would like to submit a guest post to CareerAlley, please follow these guest post guidelines. Good luck in your search.Visit me on Facebook

Write a resume an employer will appreciate -

Write a resume an employer will appreciate - How can you appeal to an employer? Spoon feed your resume! You would not hand an infant with no teeth a whole apple to eat; he or she wouldn’t know what to do with it. (For the uninitiated, take my word for it here. The baby may just throw it back at you and still be hungry. And crying.) Instead, you would offer applesauce and manipulate the spoon full directly into the infant’s mouth. Similarly, (see where I am going here?), you need to give the employer exactly what he or she needs and understands with regard to what you offer that will help him or her. Just like a baby couldn’t really care less about YOUR needs, your potential employer cares most about his or her own requirements and is not all that interested in what YOU want. To extend the analogy, you better not be serving up green beans if the baby employer wants bananas! To top it off, the bananas need to be peeled, mashed and on the spoon if you want a chance to succeed. So, two lessons from this analogy. #1 â€" The resume is about the employer and how you directly fit what he or she wants. Spending a lot of time including things on your resume that are unrelated to the job at hand is only going to confuse the employer and make him or her wonder why you are interested in THIS job. #2 â€" Don’t expect the employer to spend a lot of time figuring you out. If you aren’t making it easy to “eat” your resume â€" if you are passing crunchy apples when applesauce is preferred, you are not likely to pass the initial screen, no matter how great your underlying skills may be. The fact is, recruiters and hiring managers are too busy to give you the benefit of the doubt. Your job is to break things down for them into easily digestible, bite-sized pieces AND spoon feed it directly to them. When you do make solid connections between what they want and what you offer, you will find that your search goes much better and your chances of landing an interview increase exponentially! If you are ready for a change and could use some help with your search, follow THIS LINK to learn more about me and how we can work together! photo by Joe Shlabotnik

Job Search Tips - How Far Back Do You Go With Work History on Your Resume?

Job Search Tips - How Far Back Do You Go With Work History on Your Resume?When writing a resume, it is often common to include everything in chronological order. However, this can be detrimental if you are attempting to cover a lot of ground in the job application.Instead, you may want to think about age bracket first. This means you will know if you are applying for a job as a teenager or young adult. This is important because young workers are much more likely to get jobs than an older worker.Another thing to consider when researching employment background checks is the number of references. For example, if you have a specific reference to a specific employer, do you know if they have asked the reference for their name? This might be an easy way to get a few names you don't know.When writing a resume, when most people think about it, the chronological order of your history will include your education. However, many companies like to see a resume that shows a college degree, an appr enticeship or post-secondary credentials. It is important to keep this information in mind when writing a resume because companies are used to seeing a few years worth of work.If you are not certain if you are applying for a job in a certain department, use your reference names to find out. Many companies require a specified number of references, and these may be more likely to be used if they are a few years past. By using a reference, it will be easier to spot your previous employer.By including your name, age and any previous job, this will help make your reference names stand out. This also shows that you really are trying to get a job and that you did something worthy of getting one. If you have a specific company that you want to work for, keep them in mind when reading your reference names.When researching employment background checks, you need to keep your resume as chronological as possible. You can follow the same process for each career path that you would for a job. Howe ver, keeping this aspect of your history in mind will help keep your resume from being too lengthy.

How to Handle a Name Change at Work

How to Handle a Name Change at Work Just back in the office after getting hitched to an actor in Venice, London-based human-rights attorney Amal Alamuddin is going by a new name: Mrs. Clooney. While the former Ms. Alamuddin, 36, has established a professional reputation under her own moniker, it’s safe to say that being identified as the woman who got the sexiest man alive to settle down won’t damage her career prospects. But what about accomplished women who aren’t boldface names by marriage orâ€"like Kim Kardashian, who announced earlier this summer that henceforth she would be known as Mrs. Westâ€"boldface names in their own right? Suddenly appearing in the workplace as Mrs. So-and-So can cause some confusion among clients and colleagues. As we noted when Kim made it official, the fact that women are marrying later, often after they’ve spent years establishing a career, can make the change to a new name more complicatedâ€"and risky. If you’re considering going by a different handle in the workplace, here are eight steps to ease the transition without hurting your prospects. 1. Hedge your bets. Think about how costly it would be to cut off your connection to the body of work or marketing that’s tied to your maiden name. If that worries you, opt for a more moderate approach. “The easy out is to keep your maiden name at work and in professional contexts, but use your spouse’s last name socially,” says Danielle Tate, founder of MissNowMrs.com, a site that helps women change their legal name. Another compromise is to use both surnames, either by making your maiden name your middle name, using both last names, or creating a hyphenated last name. Kim took this approach initially. Shortly after exchanging vows with Kayne, she changed the name on her social media accounts to Kim Kardashian West. And just as Kim has done, you can use both surnames for a brief transition period to help people get used to your new identity before dropping your maiden name. 2. Get help from your company. If you plan on making a complete switch, reach out for advice. “You don’t have to figure it out all on your own. You’re not the only who has gotten married or changed your name,” says Michelle Friedman, a career coach who specializes in women’s career advancement. A good first move is to check in with your HR department, which may have policies in place outlining exactly what changes you need to make to your beneficiary designations, insurance benefits, company email and directory listing, and tax and Social Security forms. Aside from offering help with name-change paperwork, HR may be able to offer advice about managing contacts, as well as insights into how others in your industry have handled the change successfully (ask co-workers too). 3. Don’t make it a surprise. Give co-workers and clients ample notice about your name change to avoid confusion, especially if contact info such as your email address will be updated. Sandra Green, a U.K.-based executive coach, recommends reaching out a week to ten days before the wedding. One easy way: Put a small note in your email signature in advance, says Julie Cohen, a Philadelphia career and personal coach. It’s an unobtrusive reminder and a good way to get people familiar with the change. Not everyone in your email contact list needs to know. Run through your list of clients and sort them into groups based on the closeness of your working relationship. Some you’ll just need to include in a quick email blast, while others you should talk to directly. “Obviously you don’t want to get on the phone with everyone, but in certain important client relationships this may be good to do,” says Friedman. 4. Stay on top of the technology. After you’ve made the switch, set up forwarding on your previous email account, or write an automatic reply that includes your new contact info. This way you don’t miss any important messages, and people have a longer grace period to update their contact info and adjust to your new name. 5. Go back in history. Give former employers and references a heads-up about this change as well. This way if you’re applying for a new job, your background check will go smoothly, and you won’t run the risk of having people mistakenly deny that you worked for their company. 6. Use this as an excuse to network. Send an email to everyone in your work circle. “Whenever someone changes jobs or retires, they send these emails about good news,” says Cohen. “Do the same with this.” This also gives you a perfect excuse to remind your network what you’re up to. “You always want to remain in contact,” says Friedman. “But sometimes it’s hard to think of a natural reason for reaching out. This gives you a celebratory excuse.” You could even send this blast twice, says Green. First a few days before the wedding and again after you return from your honeymoon, when the change is in place. 7. Make yourself easy to find. Think about how people locate you and your business. Is it through search, a review website, social media, or all of them? Update all your bios. When you add your new name on sites like LinkedIn, keep a vestige of your old name. That can help people find you during the transition period. “Include your maiden name on social,” says Cohen. “If people are finding you by search it will serve you best to keep connected to both names.” If you had a more common name or are making the switch to a more popular surname, adds Tate, having both names online could even help you come up higher in search results. 8. Update your memberships. To further help your new name show up high in search results and build up credibility for your new moniker, Friedman recommends having any professional organizations, alumni associations, company or community boards, or other groups you belong to change your name on their membership roles. If you hold a leadership position or are listed elsewhere on an association website, perhaps for winning an award, request that the name change appear throughout. Ask to have any older content that can easily be altered, such as a post listing you as a guest speaker at a conference, updated too.

6 Principles for Reaching Your Ultimate Career Potential (Part 2) - Work It Daily

6 Principles for Reaching Your Ultimate Career Potential (Part 2) - Work It Daily The following article is a continuation of the previous article written on the first three of the six principles to reaching your ultimate career potential. The Bridge Model is a nonlinear model designed to provide you with key concepts required to reach your ultimate career success. Regardless of what type of career growth you are looking for, these principles are the common factors that will distinguish you as someone worthy and capable of reaching your highest career potential. The first three principles were covered in a previous article. They are Build Your Base, Respond Responsibly and Influence Impeccable. The next three principles are as follows: 4. Distinguish Yourself The farther you want to take your career and the higher you want to climb, the tougher the competition gets. What are you doing to stand out from the crowd? By doing things such as performing beyond expectations, ensuring you have a strong team working for you who can do the same, and taking unwanted or tough assignments are the types of things that help differentiate you from others. It is doing things out of the ordinary (for example, being successful in a difficult assignment) which demonstrate you have the ambition and history of high performance required to get ahead. 5. Grow Your Skills Do you know what skills and experiences are needed to advance your career? Hopefully the answer is yes but if not, you should identify these and put an action plan together to ensure you have what it takes as you continue to navigate along your career path. Having a career plan that will guide you along your path is essential. t ensures you keep on track and grow in the appropriate areas. Share your career plan with your leaders or mentors, or key stakeholders to get some input on the areas where you need to develop. As well, it helps keep your stakeholders updated on your aspirations and enables you to enlist their support as you advance. Another key aspect of growing your skills is to develop others. Learn to be a talent developer so you can groom your successor and have a strong viable candidate to replace you when you are ready to move up to the next position. 6. Encourage, Enlighten, Expect As you continue to chart your own course of career growth, you should encourage and enlighten your key stakeholders on what to expect with regards to your performance. You should also encourage your peers, subordinates and superiors to expect only the best from you. By encouraging them to expect the best, you will most certainly want to deliver the best and this propels your career ahead. You should also practice being transparent and sharing as much information as possible to enlighten those around you about important information occurring in your work area. Individuals who advance into higher-level roles are those who are willing to share information because they know information is power. They want others to be empowered with knowledge so they can perform and do well. If you practice this, you will single yourself out as one who is worthy and capable of continued career advancement. The six principles of the Bridge Model should be consistently practiced as you continue to advance along your career path. It is a fluid model designed so you can go back and forth between each principle and continue to practice and master these six areas that enable you to reach your ultimate career success. Read more » articles by this approved expert | Click here » if you’re a career expert Photo credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!

A Guide for Handling Inappropriate Interview Questions

A Guide for Handling Inappropriate Interview Questions A Guide for Handling Inappropriate Interview QuestionsJob hunting can be stressful.As a candidate, you put a lot of effort into crafting your cover letter and your resume, networking your way to the perfect openings, and managing your nerves on the day of the vorstellungsgesprch. You want to make a good impression by answering questions in a way that positions you as a strong candidate.So what do you do if the hiring manager poses inappropriate bewerbungsgesprch questions - or worse, illegal? TWEETUnfortunately, this is not a hypothetical question. You may be surprised to find out that according to asurveyconducted by Harris Poll, a shocking 20% ofover 2,000 hiring and human resource managers that were surveyed indicated they have asked a candidate illegal interview questions. When the same group of hiring managers was presented with a list of illegal questions and asked whether they were legal, at least 33% said they werent sure . Since you cannot always rely on the hiring managers to do the right thing, researching this subject before the big day can help you map out tricky territory. First off, lets draw the line on what illegal interview questions are. In summary, race, gender, nationality, religion, military status, marital status, and disability are all protected categories. That means employers cannot use them to discriminate in their hiring practices.That sounds reasonable, you might say. What does that look like in practice? Here are some examples of questions that are illegal during the interview process. Some of them are so obvious you might cringe. Others are veiled and round-about. You might even spot one or two that you have been asked in an interview I know I didWho will take care of your children while you are at work?A good rule of thumb on any question that hints at gender or family status discrimination is to ask yourself, Would the employer be asking this if I were the opposite gender? T he implication in this question is that you may not be able to fulfil the responsibilities of the job because you are a parent.A legal way of asking this question might look like this Will you be available to be present in the office from 9 to 6 during the work week? As long as that is a valid job requirement, and the question is asked of every candidate, clarifying availability is ritterlich game.Are you planning to have more children?You family plans are legally off-limits in an interview, and this is definetly an inappropriate interview question. While you may be tempted to share pregnancy or toddler stories with a hiring manager (especially if she comes across as friendly or has a picture of a young child on her desk), the prudent thing to do is to refrain from doing so.How often are you away for Army Reserve training?This is an example of a discriminatory question based on military status. A legal way of reframing this question is, Are you available to travel two weeks out of t he month to exhibit at conferences and visit clients? If those are legitimate job requirements.Have you ever been arrested?Asking about the arrest history of the candidate is an illegal interview question. bedrngnisably, the hiring manager can ask whether or not you have been convicted of a crime, or have used illegal drugs in the last 3 months, as neither criminal conviction nor illegal drug use are protected categories.Are you on any medication?This can be viewed as a roundabout way to ask about your health history and possible disability. A legal way to address the underlying concern is, Are you fit to operate heavy machinery, as would be required by this job description?Do you attend church every Sunday?This question hints at potential religious discrimination. A legal way to address a legitimate employment concern is along the lines of, Are you available for after-hours and weekend work duty if needed?What year did you graduate from high school?This is just another way of askin g how old you are. Not OK.Now that you know what illegal and inappropriate interview questions might look like, what should your strategy be if one of those lands in your court? You have one of three choices.Answer the question. Many candidates do this as a default simply because they are afraid of coming across as non-collaborative, or dont see anything wrong with the question. My advice is to consider simply answering the question if you are comfortable doing so. Short and sweet answers are best.Refuse to answer the question. With an illegal question, it is certainly within your rights to not answer it. You can point to the protected nature of the category as your reason for not answering. Most employers will back off. Be prepared that this strategy can create some awkwardness not through any fault of yours, but uncomfortable nonetheless.Answer the intent of the question. This option allows you to protect your rights and tactfully address the hiring managers valid concern. You ca n offer a response that targets the heart of the question. Instead of answering Where were you born? directly, you might way If you meant to ask whether I am legally allowed to work in the United States, the answer is yes. Alternatively, you could redirect with a clarifying question. Help me understand why this matters, because I want to better understand the job Im interviewing for, will do the trick.Now that we got illegal questions out of the way, lets briefly address inappropriate questions. Believe it or not, cringe-worthy questions are sometimes asked at interviews. HR professionals are usually better trained on this subject, but it is not unheard of for line managers to ask whatever comes to mind. Some examplesDo you get PMS?Can you flirt with customers to make them spend more money?Can you wear more makeup?Your choices on an inappropriate interview question are essentially the same as for an illegal question. You can answer it directly, use humor to redirect, or ask the hiri ng manager to demonstrate how the question applies to the position you are applying for. If an inappropriate question turns you sour on the position, consider it a blessing in disguise and fodder for a good story.In closing, my best advice when dealing with illegal and inappropriate interview questions is to remain calm. In the interview, as in the rest of your professional life, you have control over what happens next. Dont let a prospective employer bully you into disclosing something that you are not comfortable with.Occasionally, hiring managers use illegal questions as an intimidation tool. Most of the time, however, the interviewer may not realize he is asking an illegal or an inappropriate question. This is particularly true if a portion of the interview is an informal lunch with prospective co-workers. Because of the relaxed setting, it can be easy for them to slip into personal territory with you that might be normal among them but is not appropriate in the context of an i nterview. Remember that you are in charge, dont get defensive, and protect your personal boundaries with grace and confidence. Aim to diffuse the situation, and use this as an opportunity to showcase your interpersonal skills.Need help with your resume? Take advantage of our free critique today Related Articles

The Idiots Guide to Osu Resume Writing Tips Explained

The Idiots Guide to Osu Resume Writing Tips Explained Osu Resume Writing Tips - Dead or Alive? Employing a custom resume instead of a generic one is going to greatly increase your probability of an interview, as youll be a better match in the view of the reader. While a resume objective tells the reader what you would like to do and why you wish to do it, a summary provides a fast recap of your career. Analyze job ads You will see lots of helpful info on job ads. To implement a productive job search campaign that youll need to get prepared. What You Dont Know About Osu Resume Writing Tips If youre a member of an organization that might be controversial or that may lead to questions that may be interpreted as discriminatory, you might leid desire to include it on your resume. If youre sending a resume to a company, it ought to be a given that youre offered for an interview and you will provide references if requested. You truly need a cover letter. Know the purpose of your resume Some men and women write a resume like the intention of the document was supposed to land work. The True Meaning of Osu Resume Writing Tips Typically if you have a look at the URL, the ATS system is going to be included. If you are in possession of a professional Web website, include the URL. These websites are able to help you avoid plagiarism. There are plenty of websites with tips around the internet, but most bring just a few them. In terms of technical jargon, do bedrngnis automatically think that the employer will understand what you are speaking about. You may have a million things you wish to write about. There are a lot of things you may consider doing before you get to writing. When youre considering how to format your resume for an authentic live reader, concentrate on making the document attractive and simple to skim. Before you set a single word on paper, develop an agenda of the best few things you desire an employer to understand about you at the clo se of the interview. When youre in the interview, its fine to bring a pause to think and have a breath before answering the question thats being asked. You simply get one chance to create a first impression. In reality it might even hurt your odds of landing an interview. What About Osu Resume Writing Tips? For that reason, it is a price of the work hunt process worth paying. If you are able to explain the way that it will benefit his company, and to connect it to tangible effects, then youll really enhance your chances. Attempt to know the market of the organization youre asking for work, and identify what sort of difficulties they could be going through. 1 small typo and your odds of getting hired could slip. What You Should Do to Find Out About Osu Resume Writing Tips Before Youre Left Behind You should clearly state what kind of a job which you want, and know what types of skills and experiences are necessary to succeed in that job. Learn about the three kinds of sk ills its possible to highlight and the way you are able to incorporate them into your resume. Get organized and create categories for different topics you intend to write about. There are two primary kinds of resumes.