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You’re looking for a new job, and you’re on Twitter. What should you say in 140 characters or less that would help you reach your goal?

First of all, you have to identify your target audience and surmise what your target audience would be interested in. As a job seeker you primarily have two audiences: recruiters/hiring managers and colleagues who can refer you to openings. Fortunately for you, recruiters/hiring managers and colleagues have one very important thing in common. They are both looking for the best and the brightest. Recruiters/hiring managers want to identify the cream of the crop when searching for the ideal candidate. Colleagues also want to refer those who will make them look good in the eyes of the company that they refer people to. So your task as a job seeker is to demonstrate that you are on top of your field.

Simply advertising the fact that you are looking for a job is not sufficient, and if overdone, can prove your undoing. Instead you need to devise a job search strategy that reaches your target audience effectively. One method that you can incorporate into your strategy is tweeting the URLs of articles that discuss new trends in your industry and/or profession. This subtly shows that you are savvy about what is going in your field. This is especially important for people who have been unemployed for awhile because it is easy for employers to assume that if you have been out of work for some time that you are not current with your field.

Another part of your overall job strategy can be to maintain a blog and comment on different aspects of your field. You can tweet the URLs of your different blog posts along with a very brief description to entice your followers to go to your blog. (Using a URL shortener such as bitly.com will give you a few more characters to share more information with your followers.) In addition, you can highlight information that you receive at professional association meetings or professional conferences on your blog, again directing your target audience to your blog posts.

Yet another tactic is to provide links to news videos that are related to your field. For example, if there is a news story about how the proposed financial reform of Wall Street will impact the financial services industry, you can share that video via Twitter. Your audience will appreciate the timely information and also view you positively as a professional because you are sharing useful information.

In order to increase the likelihood of your tweets being found by the right people, you should use hashtags that relate to your field. You may need to do a little research by using variations of different keywords related to your field to find hashtags that are commonly used, but it will be worth your while to do so if hiring managers and recruiters find you as a result.

Lastly, you can increase the visibility of your tweets by connecting your Twitter account to your LinkedIn account so that your tweets automatically show up in your LinkedIn status bar. LinkedIn and Twitter can be used together effectively in a social media job search since they are complementary in nature. Twitter’s brevity is its strength, but LinkedIn allows you as the job seeker to go into much more detail about your professional background.

(Feel free to follow me on Twitter @cherylepalmer and connect with me on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/cherylpalmer. You can also register for a free social media job search webinar at http://www.calltocareer.com)

When youre looking for the perfect job whether its a new job or within your
current company you need to find the right image for you and portray that to
everyone around you. It doesnt matter what everyone else is doingyou have to
do what is right for you. Its something as personal as some people will not wear
pants to church while others have no problem. You want to present an image that
portrays you in the way you wish to be portrayed. Each person has an individual
image and you must create yours to fit within the way you want others to see you.

Keep in mind that your image is not important only when you are looking for a new
job but also when you are looking to advance in your current job. Let us look at
dress, for example. Even if the company has a policy of casual dress for all
employees but you notice that managers and other high level employees wear
business attire that is the way you want to dress if you are looking to advance to
that level. You have to show management that you want to be where they are in
order to be viewed as someone of that caliber. That does not mean you have to
begin the job acting as if you are better than everyone else is or dressing in a
management style, but when you know there are openings on higher levels you
need to begin showing interest by the way you act and dress.

Even if you are not interested in a management position you still have an image to
portray in order to find the job that suits you best. You want to present yourself as
someone who is dependable and reliable above all else. Whatever else you wish to
portray is of course good as well, but those two assets are the most important.
Some of the other assets you may wish to make part of your professional profile
include detail oriented, quality conscious, deadline oriented, hard worker, loyal, and
confident to name a few.

Before you begin to look for a new job or advancement within your current
company, make sure you develop the proper image and present it as you go for
interviews. Take the time to perfect any flaws you may have that will place your
professional image in a negative light.

When youre looking for the perfect job whether its a new job or within your
current company you need to find the right image for you and portray that to
everyone around you. It doesnt matter what everyone else is doingyou have to
do what is right for you. Its something as personal as some people will not wear
pants to church while others have no problem. You want to present an image that
portrays you in the way you wish to be portrayed. Each person has an individual
image and you must create yours to fit within the way you want others to see you.

Keep in mind that your image is not important only when you are looking for a new
job but also when you are looking to advance in your current job. Let us look at
dress, for example. Even if the company has a policy of casual dress for all
employees but you notice that managers and other high level employees wear
business attire that is the way you want to dress if you are looking to advance to
that level. You have to show management that you want to be where they are in
order to be viewed as someone of that caliber. That does not mean you have to
begin the job acting as if you are better than everyone else is or dressing in a
management style, but when you know there are openings on higher levels you
need to begin showing interest by the way you act and dress.

Even if you are not interested in a management position you still have an image to
portray in order to find the job that suits you best. You want to present yourself as
someone who is dependable and reliable above all else. Whatever else you wish to
portray is of course good as well, but those two assets are the most important.
Some of the other assets you may wish to make part of your professional profile
include detail oriented, quality conscious, deadline oriented, hard worker, loyal, and
confident to name a few.

Before you begin to look for a new job or advancement within your current
company, make sure you develop the proper image and present it as you go for
interviews. Take the time to perfect any flaws you may have that will place your
professional image in a negative light.

What do you do when you have that gut feeling of impending doom about your job? Is the writing on the wall? Are you about to be laid off or fired? Is the company going under? Or is it going to come out of the blue that you no longer have a job. If you have these feeling then now is the time to take action in order to soften the blow. You need to start today to get your affairs in order. If the ax falls you will be in a much better position than your coworkers. If you follow these steps and nothing happens you will still be much better off than you are now.

First off, is your resume up to date? If you have not updated it in a few years, now is the time. You may want to consider hiring a professional to do it for you. You need to put your best foot forward. You want to be able to start sending it out before or right after you become unemployed. Searching for a new job can be a full time job by itself. Do you job skills need updating? While you are still working may be a good time to take a few classes and update your skills or start training for a new career. You may want to sign up with a temp agency now so they can place you later. Advantages of temp agencies are they pay well, they find a job for you, you wont be competing for a position with dozens of others and you can usually start immediately.

Start networking. Ask everyone you know if they know of any job openings. If you have not lost your job yet, explain to them you may be laid off and will be looking for a new job. Maybe they can give you a contact name within their company. Someone to send your resume to letting them know if they have any openings in the future you would like to be considered. Start the process now. It is not what you know, it is who you know.

Get your financial house in order. This is always easier said than done. If you are like most people you may already be living paycheck to paycheck and there is nothing extra. If you become unemployed you need as much cash as possible to carry you through. Most experts recommend 3-6 months cash to meet your living needs. What if you cant find a job for 8 months or a year? Gather all your cash reserve or sources for cash. Stash as much as possible to meet you needs.

If you are laid off, the next day you should start filling out any paperwork for unemployment benefits you may qualify for.

You will get through this, it will just take time. Start taking these important steps today and you will be far better prepared for tomorrow.

How To Find A Nursing Job – 8 Tips To Take Some Of The Headache Out Of Your Search

Do you have your nursing degree and are ready to take the medical industry by storm? Are you an experienced nurse looking for an exciting new challenge? Regardless of the level of your nursing experience, looking for a new job can be a time-consuming and frequently frustrating process. A big part of the job search process is knowing where to look for nursing positions.

The following tips and tricks are designed to take some of the headache out of your search, by giving you some guidelines on steps you can take to land your ideal nursing position.

1. Visit the recruiting departments of local hospitals, medical centers, and doctors offices to inquire about available positions. If there are no current vacancies, ask if you can submit your resume to remain on file should future openings match what you are seeking.

2. Contact recruitment and contract employment agencies. Aligning yourself with a recruiter can give you access to jobs that are often not advertised to the public. The great thing about recruiting agencies is that allow you to apply for positions at multiple companies simultaneously with a single resume submittal, since most recruiters will shop your resume around to all of the available openings.

3. Use the internet to your advantage. Searching for nurse or nursing on major job boards such as Monster.com and Hotjobs.com will unearth hundreds of available openings just be aware that competition for these positions is stiff since hundreds of other nurses are looking at and applying for the exact same jobs.

4. Dont be adverse to accepting a contract or training position. This are often a great way to get you foot in the door in the medical profession. It also gives you a chance to evaluate an organization and department to ensure it is a match before fully committing yourself to a long-term full-time position.

5. Colleges and universities that offer nursing degrees often have a database of available positions in the schools Career Center. Career Center advisors are also excellent sources of information on how to network in the industry and get your foot in the door. Many schools limit Career Center resource access to current students or alumni, though, so you may be limited to your Alma Matar.

6. Network, network, network! Let friends, family, and casual acquaintances know that you are on the market for a new position. Since most companies are much more willing to interview (and potentially hire) candidates who have already been vouched for, its important to get the word out that you are available and seeking a new opportunity.

7. Dont forgot to investigate often-overlooked nursing avenues such as:

oSchool nurses (contact the local School Board for openings)
oHealth Department Openings (both localcounty and state offices)
oHealth insurance companies
oAssisted living facilities and retirement homes
oUniversities and colleges seeking teachers for nursing school programs
oMentorship programs
oTraveling nurse programs that place you on short assignments at different locations around the country

8. Searching nursing-specific job boards for available opportunities is a great way to target only those jobs that require your degree and background. For example, visit internet sites http:www.NursingJobs.org and http:www.NurseOptions.com offer free access to a wide range of nursing positions nationwide. There are many other excellent on-line resources for nursing job information.