Use Your Social Media Profiles to Find a Job

If you are looking for a job, or have recently, it’s likely that you’ve utilized social media to search and apply for jobs. In addition to keeping in touch with friends, social media is a great way to sift through the various job listings and learn more about the companies you are interested in. In some instances, you can even use social media to submit your job application and resume.

 

However, has it ever occurred to you that employers are using the web to search for you? It’s true. There are a number of ways you can use this to your advantage and increase your chances of getting hired.

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100k+ followers on Twitter? Google+ may put you on its new suggested user list

If you have 100k followers or more on Twitter, Google+ may be putting you on their new suggested user list, reports TechCrunch.

Google’s Bradley Horowitz recently tweeted the news, as seems to be the case for Google+’s continued routine of quietly releasing updates.


Horowitz is encouraging Twitter users with over 100k followers to shoot him a direct message in order to privately chat about the testing process.

Could this be Google+’s attempt to call attention to branded or “verified” profiles on the service?
In a followup tweet, Horowitz hints at the new suggested user list revolving around context-specific content, in response to users worrying over the new feature only being able to suggest the same set of Google+ profiles to all users across the platform. There is no word, of course, on finalized concepts or ideas, meaning many of us will remain in the dark until this new feature rolls out.

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6 stories of life-changing social media connections

When we think about social media, it’s very easy to keep it sectioned off into nice, little containers. A thought passed along on Twitter might elicit a response, perhaps even a retweet. A Facebook status message is passed along and it gets a like or two.

But what about when it becomes something much more than the sum of its parts? What happens when lives change because of social media interaction? That was the question on my mind this week, so I turned (naturally) to social media in order to find some answers.

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