I have become active on Reddit recently. Sadly my most popular post was a video of a lave lake collapsing... not my original content. Still it has been informative and I have has several mildly popular posts of stuff on my blog. I figured it would be nice to do a post on the Job Hunting resources out on Reddit.
If you are not familiar with how it works people post articles, questions etc and then others vote them up or down and/or comment on them. Rather than have all articles all in one massive page they allow people to create subreddits which cluster posts around a specific topic. Some are hugely popular like science (600,000 readers) others have one or two readers. And be warned, some are NSFW or might be considered offensive.
Reddit - Jobs: How to get work and how to leave it. Employment, recruitment, résumés, CVs, interviews.
Reddit - ForHire: for posting open positions or looking for work
Reddit - Freelance: Articles of interest for freelancers and people who want to become one.
Reddit - Resume: A place to post resumes
Reddit - Work: intended to be about life at work, not for people offering or looking jobs. [has specific locations/countries as subreddits]
And this is just a start. There are special subreddits for Sysadmin work, CS work and AskReddit is a catchall for any general question you have. Additionally there are subreddits for Autism and Aspergers that offer additional resources for help beyond work.
Another useful site is Metareddit which attempts to corral the 75,000+ subreddits in a way that you can browse and see what some of the most popular are.
Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Writing a bio for a blog, social media or website
If you're like me (and many other ASD folk) talking about ourselves in glowing terms is difficult. We wind up sounding cheesy, or blunt or confused. It is so difficult for me that I am not even going to try to tell you how to write a bio. Instead I will point you at the Undercover Recruiter:
8 Steps to write a bio
8 Steps to write a bio
Sunday, June 26, 2011
ASD Networking Alert: Monster.com offers a new way to use Facebook to find a job
Monster.com has created a tool called BeKnown to help with using Facebook in your job search.
Some features are:
About.com Article: http://jobsearch.about.com/b/2011/06/25/beknown.htm
Some features are:
- The opportunity for employers to offer referral rewards to anyone — not just company employees.
- The opportunity for individuals to receive specific skills endorsements in addition to broader recommendations.
- The ability to access Monster.com job postings and other content from inside Facebook and to see job postings at friends’ companies.
About.com Article: http://jobsearch.about.com/b/2011/06/25/beknown.htm
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Tips for freelancers
One of my favorite blog sites for social media has some general tips for freelancers looking to use Social Media to increase business. For those of us on the ASD Spectrum, Social Media presents a way to socialize without actually speaking directly to others... at first at least. Check it out: http://www.theundercoverrecruiter.com/content/top-4-ways-freelancers-can-market-their-services-through-social-media
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Using Facebook for your job search
The Undercover Recruiter has some suggestions on using Facebook that, to be honest, are pretty standard (network, status updates etc.). However one caught my eye... creating an advertisement for your search. I am not sure how I feel about it but it is certainly a novel approach:
The Undercover Recruiter: 5 ways to use Facebook for your Job Search
The Undercover Recruiter: 5 ways to use Facebook for your Job Search
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Using Twitter in your job search
Twitter is an amazing tool when you think about it... a heck of a lot of information gets passed around in 140 characters or less. And one of the various things is that Job Searches can be enhanced by Twitter.
As with all Social Media curate your presence to make sure it is professional and links to a resume/web page about you. If you are openly searching mention the jobs you are searching for; use the keywords tag (#<keyword>) if it is something people look for.
But there is more. You can stalk the people at companies you want to work at. Say you really want to take part in the LOLCats company? then follow the CEO Ben Huh or CTO Scott Porad or simply look for people on Twitter that work there and see if they Tweet about job openings. If nothing else you will get an idea of what is important to the company and/or to them and that will give you an advantage in Cover Letters, Resumes and Interviews.
Also, there are whole profiles devoted to job searching. Follow @Microjobs and see what he tweets out. And if you are feeling particularly brave tweet "I want a job at @<company>" and see if anyone responds.
Use Twitter to gain intelligence for the interviews too. Often the fires of the day will appear on the Twitter account of workers there. You can use that information when interviewing like "Remember last week when your Gold Position fell in value and your hedge did not kick in?" Something like that demonstrates you care about them and know about them.
Finally there are the Twitter Search engines devoted to finding jobs. TwitJobSearch is one such example. Google twitter job search and see what comes up.
As with all Social Media curate your presence to make sure it is professional and links to a resume/web page about you. If you are openly searching mention the jobs you are searching for; use the keywords tag (#<keyword>) if it is something people look for.
But there is more. You can stalk the people at companies you want to work at. Say you really want to take part in the LOLCats company? then follow the CEO Ben Huh or CTO Scott Porad or simply look for people on Twitter that work there and see if they Tweet about job openings. If nothing else you will get an idea of what is important to the company and/or to them and that will give you an advantage in Cover Letters, Resumes and Interviews.
Also, there are whole profiles devoted to job searching. Follow @Microjobs and see what he tweets out. And if you are feeling particularly brave tweet "I want a job at @<company>" and see if anyone responds.
Use Twitter to gain intelligence for the interviews too. Often the fires of the day will appear on the Twitter account of workers there. You can use that information when interviewing like "Remember last week when your Gold Position fell in value and your hedge did not kick in?" Something like that demonstrates you care about them and know about them.
Finally there are the Twitter Search engines devoted to finding jobs. TwitJobSearch is one such example. Google twitter job search and see what comes up.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Social Media: LinkedIn Tips
For those of you with a LinkedIn account here is a list of 10 tips that help increase the success and impact of your LinkedIn Account when doing a job search.
http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/04/02/ten-tips-to-enhance-your-job-search-on-linkedin/
http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/04/02/ten-tips-to-enhance-your-job-search-on-linkedin/
Friday, June 10, 2011
Job Sink is on Facebook
It was inevitable really... but here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Job-Sink/222945821067508
Drop by and Like it if you feel up to it. I know I would appreciate it.
Drop by and Like it if you feel up to it. I know I would appreciate it.
Using social media in your job search
I will probably devote a few posts to social media in your job search so I think it makes sense to first list out the places I think you should start or curate your social presence.
You should have, at the least, an account with:
You should have, at the least, an account with:
And make sure there is nothing embarrassing or unprofessional on any of these. Something outing you as to being on the ASD Spectrum is up to you but make sure the pictures of you pretending to be RollerGirl from Boogie Nights are removed.
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