LinkedIn, Twitter And Facebook – How Can These Help In Your Job Search?

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are extremely valuable job-search tools with today’s growing desire for instant information and dependency on networking. Facebook and LinkedIn fulfill the networking dependency. Twitter is better for delivering instant information.

Twitter has grown over 1000% in last year – mainly b/c of the celebrity presence. But this doesn’t mean it can’t be used as an effective job-search tool. Many companies have a presence on Twitter. And some of the bigger employers have multiple accounts, including an entire job/hiring-oriented presence (i.e. @CitigroupJobs, @VerizonCareers, @ibmbejobs). If job-seeking candidates can find these accounts, they can be some of the first interested job-seekers to apply for open jobs (increasing chances of getting hired).

Twitter can also be a more business-appropriate job search tool. Unlike Facebook, where “inappropriate pictures, videos, notes, and messages can be posted, Twitter is basically just answering the question “what are you doing?”. Most MBAs cannot get into any trouble answering this question (though there are of course some exceptions). In any case, most MBAs therefore are willing to use their personal Twitter account as a job-searching tool.  (FYI – anyone using a personal Twitter account should be aware of tools like TweetDeck which allow you to separate the Twitter account you follow into groups – therefore allowing you to create a “job search group” that can be checked daily for new jobs and MBA job-related news).

For example: I am currently experimenting with Twitter to better promote MBAs to both employers and job-seeking MBAs. I have opened up 6 accounts to tinker with:

http://twitter.com/MBAFocus
http://twitter.com/hireMBAs
http://twitter.com/MBAalumni
http://twitter.com/jobs4MBAs
http://twitter.com/MBArecruiters
http://twitter.com/bskool

Some of these have just been opened, and are still a work in progress. But I plan on making all 6 URLs relevant and well-followed Twitter accounts with interesting information pertaining to selected audiences. Start following them today and please give feedback via Twitter or this blog. Any advice is welcome.

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Graduating MBA Resumes Available for Search to Recruiters (September Release Dates)

New MBA and Alumni Resume Books Released!

The following graduate business schools’ resume book databases have been released (or will be released in the upcoming weeks) for you to begin searching and filtering though the world’s best MBA candidates. If you haven’t already ordered (or pre-ordered), you can now. Get a jump on your competition today!

Resume Books Available Now: (in alphabetical order)

Emory – Goizueta – Alumni – Released: 09/01/08 – Price: Free

Tulane – Freeman – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/01/08 – Price: Free

U. British Columbia – Sauder – Alumni – Released: 09/01/08 – Price: Free

Vanderbilt – Owen – Alumni – Released: 09/01/08 – Price: Free

WUSTL – Olin – Alumni – Released: 09/01/08 – Price: Free

Cornell – Johnson – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/05/08 – Price: $225.00

U. Pennsylvania – Wharton – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/05/08 – Price: $300.00

Boston College – Carroll – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/08/08 – Price: Free

Carnegie Mellon – Tepper – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/08/08 – Price: Free

Duke – Fuqua – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/08/08 – Price: $250.00

Harvard Business School – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/08/08 – Price: $300.00

Indiana – Kelley – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/08/08 – Price: Free

Ohio State – Fisher – Class of 2010 – Released: 09/08/08 – Price: Free

U. Iowa – Tippie – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/08/08 – Price: Free

Upcoming Resume Book Releases: (in order by release date)

Emory – Goizueta – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/10/08 – Price: Free

UC Irvine – Paul Merage – Class of 2009 – 09/10/08 – Price: Free

U. British Columbia – Sauder – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/11/08 – Price: Free

U. British Columbia – Sauder – Class of 2010 – Released: 09/11/08 – Price: Free

Rice – Jones – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/12/08 – Price: Free

Vanderbilt – Owen – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/12/08 – Price: Free

IESE – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/15/08 – Price: Free

LSU – E.J. Ourso – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/15/08 – Price: Free

LSU – E.J. Ourso – Class of 2010 – Released: 09/15/08 – Price: Free

MIT – Sloan – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/15/08 – Price: $250.00

Ohio State – Fisher – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/15/08 – Price: Free

Temple – Fox – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/15/08 – Price: Free

U. Cambridge – Judge – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/15/08 – Price: Free

U. South Carolina – Moore – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/15/08 – Price: Free

U. South Carolina – Moore – Class of 2010 – Released: 09/15/08 – Price: Free

U. Southern California – Marshall – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/15/08 – Price: Free

Yale School of Management – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/15/08 – Price: $250.00

U. Wisconsin-Madison – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/17/08 – Price: Free

Syracuse – Whitman – Class of 2010 – Released: 09/19/08 – Price: Free

Syracuse – Whitman – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/19/08 – Price: Free

WUSTL – Olin – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/20/08 – Price: Free

Baruch – Zicklin – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/22/08 – Price: Free

Baruch – Zicklin – Class of 2010 – Released: 09/22/08 – Price: Free

Boston College – Carroll – Class of 2010 – Released: 09/22/08 – Price: Free

Rice – Jones – Class of 2010 – Released: 09/23/08 – Price: Free

Babson – Olin – Class of 2009 – Released: 09/26/08 – Price: Free

WUSTL – Olin – Class of 2010 – Released: 09/27/08 – Price: Free

*Go here for a full list of schools, resume databases available, prices, and release dates: http://www.mbafocus.net/resumepricesdates

Note: Many of these resume databases are offered as “All Candidate” combo packages for discount prices. For more information and pricing of combo packages, sign in to the Direct Order website here: https://www.MBAFocus.com/orders and/or click on the school of interest.

MBA Resume Book Releases for August

New MBA and Alumni Resume Books Released!

The following graduate business schools’ resume book databases have been released (or will be released in the upcoming week) for you to begin searching and filtering though the world’s best MBA candidates. If you haven’t already ordered (or pre-ordered), you can now. Get a jump on your competition today!

Resume Books Available Now: (in alphabetical order)

Chicago GSB – Class of 2009 – Price: $250.00
Chicago GSB – Alumni, Evening, EMBA – Price: Free
Columbia Business School – Class of 2009 – Price: $250.00
Dartmouth – Tuck – Alumni – Price: $500.00
Duke – Fuqua – Alumni – Price: $500.00
Notre Dame – Mendoza – Class of 2009 – Price: Free
North Carolina – Class of 2009 – Price: $250.00
Northwestern – Kellogg – Class of 2009 – Price: $250.00
Pennsylvania – Wharton – Experienced Hire – Price: $525.00
Texas at Austin – McCombs – Class of 2009 – Price: $225.00
UC Berkeley – Haas – Class of 2009 – Price: $400.00 (combo only)
UCLA Anderson – Experienced Hire – Price: $500.00
Singapore – NUS – Class of 2009 – Price: Free
Western Ontario – Ivey – Fall 2008 Graduates – Price: Free
Western Ontario – Ivey – Spring 2009 Graduates – Price: Free
Western Ontario – Ivey – HBA 2009 Permanent Recruiting – Price: Free

Upcoming Resume Book Releases: (in order by release date)

Dartmouth – Tuck – Class of 2009 – Release: 08/22/08 – Price: $250.00
Thunderbird – Class of 2009 – Release: 08/22/08 – Price: Free
UCLA Anderson – Class of 2009 – Release: 08/22/08 – Price: $250.00
Virginia – Darden – Class of 2009 – Release: 08/25/08 – Price: $250.00
NYU – Stern – Class of 2009 – Release: 08/25/08 – Price: $250.00
Stanford University GSB – Class of 2009 – Release: 08/27/08 – Price: $250.00
Vanderbilt – Owen – Class of 2009 – Release: 08/27/08 – Price: Free
Georgetown – McDonough – Class of 2009 – Release: 08/29/08 – Price: Free

*Go here for a full list of schools, resume databases available, prices, and release dates: http://www.mbafocus.net/resumepricesdates

Note: Many of these resume databases are offered as “All Candidate” combo packages for discount prices. For more information and pricing of combo packages, sign in to the Direct Order website here: https://www.MBAFocus.com/orders and/or click on the school of interest.

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