Find a Job on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, MySpace, Google+ and Other Social Media Websites - Softcover

Cohen, Gerald N

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500774464 ISBN 13: 9781500774462

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

This book will help you reach your goal of building professional resumes and profiles and using them to find jobs on the social media websites or internet job sites of your choice. The book gives you the tutorials, videos, and templates, to help you understand and build those profiles on traditional social media websites and on others. The book is a Research Guide that is loaded with outstanding information that will help you during your job search. After showing you the basic model for all social media profiles, it gives you access to profiles and resumes from various career fields and industries that you can use as models in building or updating your profiles. The book will help anyone job hunting from college students to young professionals to seasoned professionals in all fields. It will help those new to social networking and seasoned Social Networking users. How This Book is Different The chapter on career planning gives you access to the best planning information from creating a project plan of your job search tasks through finding your job. It also gives you access to the Charts of the National Occupational Employment and Wages Estimates for the United States for all occupational titles. The chapter on how to use social media websites provides you with the main characteristics and their differences for the most used media sites. It provides statistics on the social media sites used most by employers, recruiters and special groups. It has statistics on the 173 largest active social media sites with number of users on each of them. It also provides a model profile that you can use to build profiles on all social media sites. The chapter on how to use the internet to find jobs shows the top 10, 50 and 100 internet job sites used by different careers and lists the top 100 job sites for women along with other information to help you build resumes. The chapters on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and others provide information, videos, tutorials, and examples of profiles in different career fields. It also covers specialized internet and social media sites. These include: BeKnown, Ecademy, ExecuNet, Google+, IT Jobs, Hire IT Professionals, and JobFox. Also included are LocalJobster, WorksterOverseas Jobs, Plaxo, Quora, Rebel Mouse, TweetMyJobs, and VisualCV. You can also find Work at Home Jobs, Jobs for People with Disabilities, Grants for the Disabled, Jobs for People with only a High School Education, Diversity Jobs, Latino Jobs, College Jobs and Instagram. A job seeker should change his headline on all his social media websites and resumes to show his name, followed by “seeking employment,” and his occupation. When human resources people search for people in your occupation and location, they will find you. You can also use the search pages of all your social media websites to find your job. Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: How to get the Best Results from this Book Chapter 2: Which eBook Reader to Use Chapter 3: The Best Career Planning Websites to Use to Find a Job Chapter 4: Find a job on the Internet Chapter 5: Find a job on Social Media Websites Chapter 6: Find a Job on LinkedIn Chapter 7: Find a Job on Facebook Chapter 8: Find a Job on Twitter Chapter 9: Find a Job on Blogs Chapter 10: Find a Job on Myspace Chapter 11: How to Search the “Want Ads” on Social Media for your Job Chapter 12: Groups that can Help You Find Jobs Chapter 13. Forums to use to find Jobs Chapter 14: Find a Job o on Google+ Chapter 15: Find a Job on Other Social Media Websites Chapter 16: How the Government and Society Must Solve the Problems of Unemployment Conclusion Appendix A: How Computer Hardware and Computer Software Have Changed our World and our Jobs

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About the Author:

Gerald Cohen has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Missouri University in Columbia, Missouri and a Master’s Degree in Economics and Management from St. Louis University. He has worked for over 44 years as an Information Technology Professional, working his way up from Junior Programmer to Information Technology Consultant and Manager of Training. In his 44 years in the IT industry. He has worked for many American and several foreign companies. He has designed, programmed and maintained computer systems for a wide range of computer hardware and software platforms. He has taught a full range of Information Technology courses at 5 American companies and at several foreign companies and one college. Gerald also helped a foreign country develop their Information Technology skills by teaching in their local language and bringing them up to the American standard. Gerald has worked with the Internet and Social Media Websites with the companies he worked for during the last 20 years and has used Internet Job Sites and Social Media Websites many times to find jobs during his career and to find employees for companies he worked for. He has interviewed and helped hire and train employees for those companies. He is good at developing and giving training classes and at technical writing. He has written Procedures Manuals and Operations Manuals for Computer Departments of many companies. He has a gift for showing his readers and teaching his students how to understand and use difficult computer concepts, like linking to internet sites from a book, as used in this book. He lives with his wife, Rose, at their home in St. Louis, Missouri.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500774464
• ISBN 13: 9781500774462
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220