Career Clues

Are you getting enough value from your Social Networking? What’s all the Buzz About?

I can’t tell you how important it is to your professional life to learn the basics of Social Networking. Especially if you’re in any kind of career transition.

Online Social Networking has come of age. Almost everyone I meet is connected, and I’m sure you know the importance of showing up. Lately, I’m getting questions that tell me people are wondering if they’re getting or giving value…or if they’ve just found another way to procrastinate on “real work.”

That tells me that a lot of you are ready for the next step in Social Networking: you’re ready to move beyond the basics and start developing a strategy for efficiently and effectively meeting goals and creating value.

So I had to write this book, Social Networking Throughout Your Career: What’s All the Buzz About? I go way beyond the basics in the book. My goal was to answer some of the deeper, more specific questions I’m asked. Questions like:

• What should my networking strategy be now—right now—for exactly where I am in my career?
• How should my profile reflect not only my current situation, but my career goal?
• How can a focused Social Networking strategy help me shorten my job search?
• What’s the best way for a self-employed person to use Social Networking to keep the client/project pipeline filled?
• How can I learn what keywords companies and recruiters are looking for?
• How can I target specific industries and companies?

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When you have a focused, aligned strategy for your efforts, you leverage your participation in the online community. You find you get more value for less of your time.

Let me give you an example of a situation where having a strategy makes all the difference:

Several of my coaching clients are offering their services for occasional contract work while actively searching for their next position. There is no better way to get work than to network. Networking is also one of the main activities of their job search. How do they meet both goals without confusing people or themselves? I address that in this book.

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Another example:

Not all of my clients are looking for jobs. Some are in career transition or looking to advance in their company or field. In order to advance in your career today, you need to be seen as a leader in your industry. Social Networking is a perfect way to find opportunities that allow you to grow and test your abilities. It’s also a wonderful place to highlight your accomplishments in a way that helps you meet your goal of upward movement.

There are specific networking strategies in this book for everyone at every career stage—from high school student to retiree.

I even put in some tips for recruiters and hiring managers.

What would Social Networking Throughout Your Career: What’s All the Buzz About? recommend for where YOU are right now?

Right now, the book’s introductory price is just $9.99. I hope it saves you many hours and buys you lots of high quality connection.

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Now available in paperback: Social Networking Throughout Your Career: What’s All the Buzz About?

It seems everyone is talking about social networking tools these days. Newspaper stories and daily comics make light of our “tweets”. We have all heard about social networking and many of us are using these sites regularly. In fact, these tools have sparked a communication revolution by changing how we talk with each other and the speed in which information travels.

If you are a professional looking for a new job, considering a career change or even planning to be in the job market for more than one more year, it is important to understand how to leverage the most common social networking tools. If you are not effectively managing your online network you will appear out dated and behind the times to current employers or recruiters. Currently, 80% of all companies use LinkedIn as their primary recruiting tool. That means if you are not using LinkedIn effectively, other candidates will be hired for the job, which may be a perfect fit for you.

“Swim in the sea where hiring managers are fishing for you.”
April M. Williams
Social NetworkIng Throughout Your Career: What’s All the Buzz About?