10 Reasons Social Media Should Rock Your World

10 Reasons Social Media Should Rock Your World10 Reasons Social Media Should Rock Your WorldSocial mediaparticipation is an essential tool in networking with professional contacts, making new contacts, recruiting employees, and keeping in touch with the world. If youre elend participating in the top social media and networking sites, the world is leaving you behind. Why not become involved on the social media Web sites while your participation can advance your Human Resources career, help you obtain oben liegend employees by enlarging your candidate pool, and enable you to easily stay in touch with coworkers and former coworkers at one location. You will need to explore the possible social media sites to see which sites fit your needs for participation. Some sites specialize in certain industries and on specific topics. Some even focus on networking within regions and nations. Create profiles and participate in some activities on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Social media sites ar e a critical component in professional networking, career success, and career development going forward. Social media sites will play an increasing role in networking, career advancement, and professional success. Need convincing? These ten reasons make your HR social media time investment mandatory for your career and business success. Reasons to Get Social Stay in touch with colleagues and friends. If, like me, you have lost people over the years, look them up on the popular social media sites. You may find them. And, if your whole network is profiled and linked, youll never lose them again. Former colleagues, out-of-touch since the early eighties and nineties may reach out and add you to their professional networks at LinkedIn.Help colleagues find you. Many former colleagues, friends, and associates will likely find your profiles and contact you. . Find candidates for jobs. You can email your social network with job requirements and ask for referrals. Tap into the power of yo ur current employees networks by asking them to broadcast available positions to their networks. Were receiving top applicants from employee networks on LinkedIn and Facebook you can do the same. This is also one of the top ways to find passive candidates, people who may not currently be actively seeking work. Search on keywords to expand your contacts even beyond your network. As an example, you canuse LinkedIn for recruiting.Develop a recruiting network and a candidate pool of fhigkeit employees with skills that will become increasingly scarce. Especially as the baby boomers retire or seek part-time opportunities, determine where you will find the employees with technology, medical, and quality skills, as examples, that your organization will need for the future. Various social networks exist for a variety of career fields.Plant your foot firmly in the social networks that will provide the future employees for your organization. Develop the skills necessary to fully utilize the po tential of social media networking for HR and for your own career. Seek the assistance of your current employees, too. They are already networking on these sites (and wondering where you are). Your current employees want to help you find and recruit the kind of people with whom they want to work - and these potential employees are all on social networks. Find a new job. Desire to move on from your current employer for whatever reason? Use social media sites to assist you in your job search. Everything recommended for recruiting candidates is recommended for your HR job search. Take a look social media is a huge component of a current job search - or should be.Establish your online brand. Who are you? What expertise do you have? What do you want to be known for accomplishing? How do you want to be known and recognized by colleagues, other professionals, and potential employers? The information you put on your social media profiles will eventually serve you well to promote your career progress - or, failing to develop an online presence in social media - not at all.When a potential employer or a potential employee searches for your name in Google or another search engine, will the employer or potential employee find the credentials of a proficient professional? Will they find nothing at all? Or worst, will they find your unprofessional college profile, developed for friends and family at Facebook, and, oh my, look what friends have written on your wall Nothing at all and unprofessional pages or profiles do nothing to further your career or your job search. An increasing number of employers are searching your online presence.As an example of the visibility I am promoting, enter Susan Heathfield in a search engine. Last I looked, a professional profile emerged. You want the same results for your name. You want to establish your online image before you need it. Establishing this image can take awhile. Why are you waiting? Join groups that share your interests, your community, or your profession. Facebook, as an example, allows you to create groups. There is a LinkedIn HR Group that you can join. Following people on Twitter also yields content recommendations for my website.For job searching leads, Twitter plays a role that is increasing. In 140 characters or less, its tough to apply for a job, but you can tell colleagues and employers that you are looking. Employers can tweet (broadcast a message) about available jobs and how to apply for them. People can also retweet (re-broadcast your jobs message) to their networks on Twitter. This will enlarge your field of potential, qualified candidates who receive news about your available jobs on Twitter.Twitter groups are increasingly scheduling in-person meetups so that people who are interacting online can meet face-to-face. The mid-Michigan group holds regular meetups Ill bet that meetups are available in your area, too. If you attend conferences or trade shows, Twitter is a great way to schedule get-togethers at the show.You can provide up-to-the-minute information about your location and availability for a meeting. We know a colleague who tweeted their availability to meet at a conference and had secured a job offer by the end of the show (pending confirmation by a comprehensive background check after the show, of course.) Develop social connections over time on social media sites.Sites such as Facebook allow much more fun than the more professionally oriented LinkedIn. Connections send me karma and virtual plants from Facebook, as an example. While both of these sites started for young people, mature professionals are increasingly joining them. Despite the fact that a friends daughter tells us we are too old for Facebook, it is increasingly populated by professionals, too. In fact, mature professionals were, last I checked, the fastest growing segment of new participants.Be careful what you share to safeguard that professional imagereferenced above, but dont doubt its po wer to expand your relationships. An added plus? College students, whom you may want to recruit, populate these sites and are well-versed in their use and comfortable reaching outfromthem. One of our nephews disappeared fromemailrecently another niece sent him a message on Facebook and he was back in touch with me that day - onmy Facebook wall. Provide a space in which the users of your product or service can interact with you.Consumers want to have a conversation with you about their wants and needs. They want to tell you how you can better serve them. Many of them want to builda communityaround products or services that they love. Give them the opportunity.Blog, sponsor userforumsand answer user comments.Use your customers feedback to improve its much easier to zap a note off to you on Facebook, or to comment on yourblogthan it is to write a letter to an anonymous company address. Be out there. Interact.Zappos, the only shoe store I purchase from anymore, has alively feedon Twitte r. Its just one example. And, if you need a strategy for helping your customers find you and talk with you, go where they are already talking and join the conversation. In fact, do this, too. Builda communityaround your product or service.Are the people who are the face of your company approachable, likable, knowledgeable, and out there in social media? You need to find these people and nurture them. They are increasingly the voice of your company. More than paid media opportunities, such as ads, television commercials, and traditional mass media approaches, the online world seeks company and product evangelists who build a community of people who follow them and whom they follow. Word of mouth marketing/advertising (WoM) provides the most powerful opportunity for you to reach people and for people to reach you.Forums and blogs on your company website, forums and blogs within your Human Resources Intranet, and other online community opportunities build this sense of community. Both within and outside of your company, you need to develop relationships. They are your communicationlifeline- for employees, for mutually beneficial networks, and for your continuing career advancement. Create them use them value them benefit from them. Finally, Betsy Weber ofTechSmithCorporation sent us a note worth heeding.?Your company, in addition to individual employees, needs to establish a company presence on significant social media sites.The recent Cone Business in Social Media study indicates that 93% of Americans believe that a company should have a presence on social media sites and 85% believe that these companies should use these services to interact with consumers. Of the study responders60% of Americans regularly interact with companies on a social media site,43% of consumers say that companies should use social networks to solve the consumers problems, and41% believe that companies should use social media tools to solicit feedback on products and services. The Intern et has opened up communication across world boundaries. Why not use its social media components to expand your network, enhance your career, add friends, make connections, recruit employees, find people with scarce skills, develop candidate pools of passive potential employees, and enlarge yourworldview? Were participating. Why not you, too?

Study Many millennials spend more on coffee than they save for retirement

Study Many millennials spend more on coffee than they save for retirementStudy Many millennials spend more on coffee than they save for retirementWhat would you be willing to sacrifice to start a debt-free life? According to micro-investing app Acorns new survey of millennials financial spending habits, almost half are willing to go to extreme lengths to wipe the red out of their ledgers.Out of the 1,911 people ages 18-35 that Acorn surveyed, 46% said they would give up the opportunity to meet their favorite celebrity, while 16% were prepared to eat home-cooked meals and skip going out to eat dinner. A smaller percentage of millennials were even willing to be imprisoned. Almost one in ten millennials said they would be willingto go tojail for a week to pay off $10,000 in debt. If millennials were willing to be imprisoned for a hypothetical scenario, what they would actually give up could be even more extreme, because most millennials face a grimmer reality than $10,000 in debt. The a verage college graduate in 2016 left school with $37,172 in student loan debt.But when it came to their long-term financial future, there was one action that millennials were less willing to give up - their daily cups of coffee. Forty-one percent of millennials admitted they spent more on coffee brde year than they invested in their retirement account.Survey 71% feel uneducated on financial mattersSpending retirement money on coffee could be due to a lack of financial knowledge. Overall, the survey found that millennials are preoccupied with a financial future that they feel ill-prepared to handle. Seventy percent of millennials believe their education did not prepare them to manage their own money. Half of millennials said they knew that investing was an important skill to learn, but did not know how to do it. Only eight percent of millennials reported that they were currently saving for retirement.These findings go against the basic advice of financial advisors, who want you to s tart saving as soon as possible to increase the amount of compound returns you can get. As one investment strategist put it, The value of compounding means youll have to contribute less later.To have a retirement package your older self can be proud of, you need to play the long game. The more money you save now, the more time you give your money to grow into a financial safety net you can fall back on long after your career ends.

How to Translate Your Military Service Into a Civilian Resume

How to Translate Your Military Service Into a Civilian Resume How to Translate Your Military Service Into a Civilian Resume As career coach Matt Berndtwrites, How can you translate what you did in the military from military jargon and context into language meaningful to civilian employers?Thats the question Grammarly aims to answertoday.Pre-Resume PrepBefore you can write an effective resume, you need to gather information. First, collect any documents related to your service, such as wertzuwachs evaluations, awards and commendations, and your Verification of Military Experience and Training (or VMET, available here). Veterans and civilians alike can benefit from keepingcopies of education transcripts, employment history, and accolades in a handy binder.These records will make it much easier to create an accurate timeline of your service. Theyll also help you to recall specific, measurable details. According to Shareem Kilkenny, a career services expert who specializes in working w ith veterans, Trying to write your military resume without these documents at hand will make the process much more difficult, and most importantly, almost guarantee that your final product will turn out lackluster and thin on your accomplishments.Leadership ExperienceVeterans make great leaders in the workplace. According to the University of Notre Dame, Veterans are not simply trained to respond to commands. In fact, the goal of their training is to help them to recognize the talents inherently in their people and to develop those talents to enable their team to succeed.What happens when youre not looking for a management ort? As a veteran, youre used to following a strict chain of command. While some workplaces prefer a flatter management structure, many employers still use a hierarchical structure. What does that mean for you? Unlike recent grads and employees who are used to more casual leadership structures, youll be ahead of the pack when it comes to fitting into the corporate structure.Offer Solid NumbersAccording to Megan M. Biro, one of the reasons that employers want to hire veterans is because of their results-oriented attitude. When youre in uniform you have a mission, writes Biro, one on which lives may be dependent. Performance and results are non-negotiable. You know how to get things done, and you do them.To demonstrate your ability to get results, offer solid numbers whenever possible. Hiring managers might not understand all of the specifics about your military service, but they do understand statements like supervised 20 subordinates or cut department expenses by 3.8 percent in 2007.Cut the Jargon and Alphabet SoupYour resume should read as if you were speaking to your grandparents. Thats what Bradley-Morris, a firm specializing in helping vets find work, recommends. Most employers will have no clue what military jargon and acronyms mean, so make sure to use the civilian equivalents.If you must use an acronym for the sake of brevity, spell i t out the first time you use the term, and then put the acronym in parentheses immediately following the word or phrase. Then you can use the acronym from that point forward. For example, you might write Department of Defense (DOD) the first time its mentioned and then just DOD thereafter. If you only mention a term once in your resume or cover letter, however, theres no need to include the acronym at all.Proofread Before SendingAccuracy is key when it comes to any business writing. Thats why you need to pay special attention to spelling errors, grammar mistakes, and typos in your resume. One mistake could cost you the interview, so eliminate typos with Grammarlys automated proofreading tool,or get a friend to help you.Veterans, thank you for your service Wed be honored if youd share your advice and stories about transitioning into the civilianjob force in the comments

Recruiting Online Through Social Media

Recruiting Online Through Social MediaRecruiting Online Through Social MediaRecruiting Online Through Social Media BenningtonWe all know its expensive to make a bad hire. At best, youre out the time and resources it took to get the person up to speed. At worst, youre putting out fires in their wake.The good news is that, thanks to technology, employers now have unprecedented access to a virtual treasure chest of information on candidates, making hiring decisions much easier. In fact, these days almost half of businesses are using social media zugnglich tools to screen potential employees and that number will only continue to rise. Even small businesses are finding social mediacan be an enhancement to their hiringprocess.A good place to startis with social media sites. Be aware, though, that some of the information you find (such as a persons age, race, gender, religion, marital status or disability) should not be used to influence your hiring decision and laws around discriminatory h iring practices are still very much in place when recruiting online. Also keep in mind that job seekers write their own credentials on these sites. As such,there is no guaranteethat the information is always100% accurate.That said, where should you begin your research?Google (Of course)For the most part, candidates can control the information that appears on their social media profiles. They have considerably less control over what shows up on Google. So, before you check any of the other sites, do a thorough Google search, e.g. go back at least five pages and be sure to click on any links rather than rely on the summary text. Obviously, this becomes more difficult (if not completely useless) if the candidate has a fairly common name. For example, I teach a graduate course and one of my students is named you guessed it Jon Smith.Facebook Its a common best practice in business to hire for attitude, train for skill. And if ever there was a place to gauge attitude online, its Faceboo k. Assuming you have access to a potential employees account, resist the temptation to go straight to the pictures. Instead, take note of what theyre posting on their wall. Do they engage with friends positively and show enthusiasm, or do they whine and play victim?As with the Google search, youll want to scroll through a few pages to get a better sense of the overall picture. Pay special attention to group membership as well as the tone of their comments. Alone, these might not mean much, but together they can give you a sense of your candidates interests and interpersonal skills. Also, understand that Facebook is designed to be highly social, i.e., just because someone posts a photo with a cocktail in their hand doesnt mean theyre destined to go on bender at the office Christmas party.Twitter With as much of a beating as Twitter takes from non-users, Im always pleasantly surprised and impressed when I find a candidate here. Beyond the basics (i.e. appropriate username and photos) I dive deep into status updates and retweets, giving extra points to those who are sharing helpful articles and links as opposed to just documenting their day. I also take note of who the candidate is using Twitter to follow thought leaders and look for industry leaders, respected authors, major media sources and other signs of vigorous learners. Some recruiters are also finding Twitter to be a useful recruiting tool.LinkedInI take note of job seekers who have a compelling summary, excellent recommendations and membership in industry groups. This shows me the candidate pays attention to detail and is actively seeking to build his or her career.You Tube As with the Google search, you dont go into You Tube expecting to find digital dirt. Sometimes, though, you get surprised. For that reason, no online due diligence is complete without searching for your applicant here.Finally, dont just rely on the Internet to evaluate potential hires. Especially if youre looking to fill a leadership role, put the most stock in what you see offline.In other words, your recruit could have the best web presence ever, but if hes rude to the waiter in the interview, its time to look elsewhere.Author BioEmily Bennington is the co-author of Effective Immediately How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job (Ten Speed Press, 2010.) She is a contributor to The Huffington Post and a frequent speaker to college students and organizations on the topic of career success. Emily also teaches a graduate-level course on social media and hosts Professional Studio 365, a popular career blog which helps new professionals successfully navigate their first year in the workforce. She can be reached via email at ebennington () msn.com or on Twitter EmilyBennington.None of the information provided herein constitutes legal advice on behalf of Monster.

What You Need to Know About Contemporary Resume

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She Taught Herself To Code, Then Got A Job At BuzzFeed

She Taught Herself To Code, Then Got A Job At BuzzFeed Giorgia S works as a frontend developer at BuzzFeed from her home in Berlin, thanks to PowerToFly. Learn how she got her job and check out her tips for staying efficient.What are your job responsibilities?At BuzzFeed my teams job is to make the code better and mora beautiful, which makes the application work better. Its exciting because we have new techniques. My hintergrund is a bit more on the graphic side. I studied graphic design. I started as a web designer, then I taught myself code, step by step.What advice would you give other women interested in working remotely?I would say its not as scary as it seems. My friends ask me, How do you it? You are alone all the time. I need to go out to lunch with my colleagues. I dont think its like that at all. It depends what kind of person you are. It depends where youre working. I feel like Im super lucky. At BuzzFeed, were a team of all women and were all remote, so that already helps a lot. I never feel like Im outside the team. We always communicate. Our team leaders rely on us a lot. I never feel alone. I go to a small office in a co-working space with other people. So when no one is angeschlossen because of the time difference, I have other people around.Do you have any strategies for staying efficient outside of an office? What tools do you use?The first thing I do is open our team chat. (We use Slack.) Its a way to say, OK, Im online and you can contact me. If people contact you, youre held accountable. Ive found the time during the day when Im most productive, so at that time I try to be at the office or at the table, sitting down. It sounds stupid, but just sitting at the table instead of the sofa helps. We use a task manager, like JIRA. Its very nice because you already know what your tasks are for the day. You get a lot of notifications, but its great because you can really stay in contact, even if youre not in the saatkorn time zone.What are the bigge st challenges when working remotely? How have you overcome them?The biggest challenge is getting to know the system and the product youre working on without having someone sit next to you. You cant point out stuff and say, This is the problem. Instead, you have to send a screenshot or video. Sometimes when Im speaking with other remote people, they are frustrated because no one is helping them. I say, Why dont you ask? And they say, No, I did yesterday. I can understand. I dont want to bother people. I would like to show that I can do it alone, but sometimes its better to ask ten more questions, instead of losing days of work.How has this job changed your day-to-day life?Completely. I can manage my time however I want. For me as a European, usually the companies are smaller and have stricter deadlines. You have to always deliver stuff, even if it is not good. Here at BuzzFeed I suddenly find myself able to manage my time better. The quality of my work is more important. Its helped m e to deal with my stress at work, which was something I always struggled with. One thing I noticed in the beginning??I was really surprised??I can work less hours and finish more tasks. I can sit down when I really feel like I want to work, I work very focused (I never open personal emails, Facebook, or anything), and when Im tired I go home. Its much better than being in an office for 8 hours every day. One of the biggest challenges in almost all industries today is achieving gender parity. Gender diversity provides huge benefits in the workplace. pWhile some industries have made significant advancements in gender diversity, some industries lag further behind... and the construction industry is well-known for being in the latter category. If someone says, construction workers, youll likely picture a group of men in yellow hard hats analyzing an architects plans or laying bricks on top of a scaffold. And men at work signs only help to rei nforce this image.pThis stereotype is rooted in reality. When was the last time you actually spotted a woman on a construction site? Or hired a female plumber or carpenter? Your answer is most likely never. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statisticsreports that only 3.4% of the total of 8.3 million construction employees are women.pBut the construction industry has a lot more to offer than steel-toed boots and hard hats, and it needs women to help advance the industry in this era of rapid change. Here are 5 reasons why women joining the workforce or looking to make a pivot should consider a career in construction.h21. Fuel Innovation/h2pNot only is diversity the socially and morally right thing to do, but it is also actually an excellent business strategy. pResearch presented in the Harvard Business Reviewshows that diverse teams develop more innovative ideas. This is further supported by a study conducted by Gallupon the performance of gender-diverse teams versus single-gender teams, which found that the difference in backgrounds and perspectives led to better business performance and problem-solving. h22. Capitalize on Demand/h2pThe construction industry is currently experiencing a labor shortage. The industry itself is booming and projected to be one of the fastest-growing industries, with total spending projected to exceed $1.45 trillion in 2023/a. However, most construction companies are unable to meet the rising demand. pAccording to the Associated General Contractors of America/a, more than 80% of contractors are experiencing difficulties filling hourly craft positions that represent the bulk of the construction workforce.pAnd demand isnt limited to individual contributor roles. Given the industry boom, there are a number of open stable and high-paying roles (any project managers out there?) waiting for the right candidateh23. Leadership Opportunities/h2pAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics/a, women compose only 7.7% of the total 1 million manageria l positions in construction.br/pBut given the highly collaborative nature of construction work, more women in leadership roles would help drive innovation and enhance productivity.Furthermore, as a woman in construction in a leadership position, youd have the unique opportunity to drive change for the industry and make it a more attractive option for other women.h24. High-Income Potential/h2pSalaries for many skilled positions in construction are on the rise, making a construction career a prime choice for women looking for a high-paying job,pThe 2018 Construction Craft Salary Surveyconducted by the National Center for Construction Education and Research revealed that salaries for many skilled craft areas are increasing. Project managers and project supervisors topped the list at $92,523 and $88,355, respectively. The next set of highest-paying jobs include those of combo-verstrker welders ($71,067), instrumentation technicians ($70,080), pipe welders ($69,222), power line workers ( $68,262) and industrial electricians ($67,269). Of the 32 categories of workers in the survey, 19 positions earned an average salary of $60,000 or higher.h25. Sense of accomplishment/h2p The construction industry can give employees a unique sense of achievement. Yes, the job is stressful and the work can be demanding, but nothing beats the feeling of being able to build something from the ground up. pHow many professionals in other industries can point at a school, a hospital, or a skyscraper and say I helped build that?pThe construction industry has a long way to go in combating gender bias and supporting women in the workforce, but given the current demand for workers, theres no better time to pick up a sledgehammer (figurative or literal) and smash the gender stereotypes plaguing the construction industry.