Swide Magazine by Dolce&Gabbana

| posted Feb 3, 2010

It should comes as no surprise that finding a job in today’s economic climate is like winning the lottery, we all wish for it, but only the lucky succeed. The success of using social media as a job-search engine has given birth to a new desktop client aimed at working for you.

In the recent years, social media has aided many desperate job seekers and for many companies allowed them to cut recruitment costs. The days of scouring classifieds have long passed us. It now seems that in order to snag a job these days; it is obligatory to have some kind of online presence. We live in a world consumed by surfing social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, etc…why not use these mediums to find that next job?

Tweeting about a need for a job, uploading a Youtube online resume, following company recruiters, are all some of the creative ways people are trying to hunt down jobs. It’s surprising that more than over a thousand people have disregarded their own privacy and uploaded their resumes in video format on Youtube, along with their personal contact information. While some may think a video resume can be over doing it, many companies actually applaud the creativity behind it.

Check out a perfect example of an “online resume” found on Youtube

In addition to helping job seekers, Social media has also helped companies cut costs in their recruitment efforts. Clickz reported  that last year, "U.K. mobile operator 02 estimated 62 percent of small businesses were using social media to help minimize their outlay, citing marketing and recruitment as key areas. U.S. digital agency ,Organic also claimed at the time it had shifted 75 percent of its recruitment efforts towards social networking platforms last year”. Proving once again the need for job seekers to keep up with the times and become active on the world wide web.

Jobdeck

The never-ending success of social media has now contributed to the introduction of a new desktop client, aimed at scouring the twittersphere and providing job possibilities. TwitJobSearch, a Twitter-based real-time job search engine, has recently partnered with TweetDeck to launch JobDeck.the first ever real-time job search engine. Jobdeck makes it easier to track the world of social media for job offers, follow the latest trends in job hunting, and making new contacts across LinkedIn,Twitter ,Facebook and more. It's about time social media stops embarrassing us and rather work for us.

 

Timaj Alwan

 

 

Sources: Various

Photo Source: Techcrunch

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