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When you are out of a job, do not treat it as a vacation. Take a week or two up front if needed, relax, clear your head, and then return to “work” finding your next career opportunity. We all have responsibilities, bills to pay, family to support, personal and professional needs, so be an adult, stay focused, and treat your job search as your full time job!

Build, and use your network
If you are not informing your network of your job search and career intentions, you are selling yourself short, as most companies announce openings to their employees first to find qualified candidates through word-of-mouth as opposed to job board postings or outside recruiters. So, build your network, and use your network…past classmates, past colleagues, previous managers, family members, friends, etc. LinkedIn is a great place to post your profile and connect with valuable contacts.

Create, and use your online resume
It is also imperative to have a professional online resume that will set you apart from the rest of the candidate pool. iResume is a great place for you to create your resume once and use it anywhere. You can share it with your network, distribute it directly to hiring managers and recruiters, and track your job search activity. You can direct others to your personal url or download your iResume into many different formats as you choose.

Plan your days
Just as you will when you land your next position, you must plan your days in order to be successful and effective in your job search. Schedule coffee meetings, lunch meetings, and phone calls to catch up with past colleagues or interesting contacts who may be influential in your next opportunity. Set a block of time to search online for jobs that are posted. But, as mentioned above, many of the best opportunities are circulated by mouth, so don’t waste all of your time on the job boards. Indeed is a great place to go for aggregated job postings. Attend career seminars such as Realize Your Potential coming up in Atlanta. Attend job fairs, career related networking events, and career related social hours. The more organized your days, the more efficiently you will operate. Have a marketing strategy documented that you can provide to those who are interested, and share your online resume and profile. You can even order cost effective business cards with your iResume url and contact information.

Get off the couch, and get motivated!

• Build, and use your network
• Create, and use your online resume and professional profile
• Plan your days, and stick to it!

Good luck!
-Allison

There is more to learn on Twitter than what people are having for lunch, especially if you take the time to follow people who share your interests, education, and/or experiences.

Tips for Job Searching on Twitter
• Follow people in your industry who are writing about jobs or employed at companies where you have interest.
• Find target companies, and follow people who work there.
• Have good conversation, and tweet often enough that people know you and your career-related abilities.
• Tweet about your industry, job title, knowledge base.
• Provide advice to others in your field. Become and expert, and share your knowledge.
• Build your reputation through good conversation and a broad network.
• Follow recruiters and others who are writing about job opportunities in your city and industry.
• Use your online resume in your tweets.

Create your Online Resume to post on Twitter
Create an online resume and profile that is easily tweetable such as iResume. You will have your own personal url that is your unique iResume, making you stand out from other job seekers. Share your url, and/or include it in your bio.

Twitter Job Search Tools
Utilize search tools including TwitterJobSearch and Twellow, search through Twitter Search, follow @microjobs, or visit TweetMyJobs site.

There are additional job resources pertaining to specific fields and cities such as @alldevjobs – Developer jobs, @juicyjobs – Green jobs, @socialmediajob – Jobs in social media, @chicagowebjobs – Web-related jobs in Chicago, and @JobsBoston - Jobs in the greater Boston area. Or you can use more generic resources including @indeed - One search. All jobs, @jobshouts – General job postings, and @simplyhired - Job search site.

Happy job searching!

-Allison

1. iResume reduces the time it takes you to manage and distribute multiple versions of your resume.

2. You can easily create your resume in a format that will get you noticed.

3. You can create, store, and manage multiple versions of your resume in one location accessible and usable anywhere.

4. iResume provides iResume submittal tracking and statistics and is the coolest resume tool around. You want to be cool, don’t you?

5. iResume has been created with the ability to integrate to all of the major recruiting systems, providing 100% accurate data.

6. Old school Word doc resumes are outdated. Get with the newest technology.

7. You can use your iResume easily on Twitter and TwitterJobSearch.

8. You have an iPhone and iPod…you definitely need an iResume.

9. You can create your iResume once and use it anywhere.

10. Everybody’s doing it.

See you at www.iresume.net soon.

-Allison