Matt LeBlanc

www.linkedin.com/in/mattleblanc

www.twitter.com/matthewjleblanc

a conversation on social media

this ain’tyour daddy’s

job-search

Who are they?

Statler and Waldorf are a pair of Muppet characters. They are two ornery, disagreeable old men

who first appeared in the television series The Muppet Show heckling the rest of the cast from

their balcony seats.

They appeared in every episode of the show, except for one. (In one episode, Waldorf appeared

alone at the beginning, explaining that Statler was sick, and that Waldorf's wife would

substitute. Her name turned out to be "Astoria." She looked remarkably like Statler wearing a

dress.)

why use social media at all?

more specifically, why use it in your job-search?

things you need to know

before you get to know

what you need to know

Evangelist

Ninja

Expert

Jedi

Guru

FUTURIST

Visionary

Thought Leader

what it takes to be successful

don’t advertise being unemployed

developing a catalogue of “shareable” info

civil

(MUST)

engineer

(MUST)

AND

civil AND engineer

civil

(MIGHT)

engineer

(MIGHT)

civil OR engineer

OR

NOT (-)

civil

(MUST)

engineer

(NOT)

civil NOT engineer

“ ” (exact match)

engineer

(NOT)

civil

(NOT)

“civil engineer”

engineer (MUST)

civil(MIGHT)

mechanical (MIGHT)

(…) forcing the order

engineer AND

(civil OR mechanical)

boolean

site:

– Limits results to certain keywords within a

specific site or domain

– There can be no space between site: and

the search phrase

site:dell.com AND (director OR vp)

site: operator

knowing what your profile is

Résumé LinkedIn profile

maximizing your profile

You can have the best LinkedIn profile

in the whole wide world but if

someone cannot contact you does it

really matter?

showing off your resume

showing off your resume

connect with recruiters locally (both corporate and 3rd party)

connect with recruiters who works for companies on your target list

connect with recruiters nationally who recruits people just like you

who to connect with

connect with everyone who does what you do / what you want to do

connect with everyone who manages the people who do what you do

connect with everyone who supports the people who do what you do

staying on point

sharing relevant content

easy sharing on linkedin

site:linkedin.com AND inurl:pub AND ("hr"

OR "human resources") AND ("phr" OR

"sphr") AND "greater nashville area" -inurl:dir

x-ray searches

site:linkedin.com AND inurl:pub AND

("@comcast.net" OR "@gmail.com" OR

"@yahoo.com" OR "@hotmail.com" OR

"@aol.com") AND ("hr" OR "human

resources") AND ("phr" OR "sphr") -inurl:dir

signal

why even bother?

it’s a database of 500,000,000 potential hiring managers, & candidates, and networking contacts

+ <

� You have 140 characters to say something. SAY IT!

� Twitter is one of the best learning tools out there – find smart people and follow them

� You can use hashtags (#Oracle) to make what you are tweeting searchable by the masses

� You can search Twitter through keywords, hashtags, or by X-raying it

� If you use the @ + a Twitter handle (@matthewjleblanc) in a tweet it is a ‘mention’ and will

go directly to that person in a public fashion

� You can send someone a direct message through Twitter to anyone who follows you

� 160 characters + a picture + a link = your twitter bio. FILL IT OUT!

twitter in ten seconds

what to do with twitter

� Build a following and spread your message (that you are awesome, know HR, etc)

� Follow really, really smart people that you can learn from

� Find and interact with every single HR person you can

attracting followers

� Be famous

� Be really, really, ridiculously good looking

� Pay for followers

� Be funny, interesting, or entertaining

“What motivates you to follow someone?”

the motivation behind a follow

55% Retweet / Mention from someone they follow

the motivation behind a follow

� 92% interesting content

� 84% humor

� 66% personal connection

� 32% offered incentive

What Motivates People To Retweet / Mention?

searching people out through twitter

#jobsearch AND #nashville

site:twitter.com AND intitle:"on twitter" AND

("hr" OR "human resources") AND ("phr" OR

"sphr") -hiring -bull.hn -inurl:members -

inurl:following -inurl:status -inurl:jobs

some of the best of the rest…

WebStagram (web.stagram.com) is an online

viewer for Instagram that can be x-rayed

site:web.stagram.com AND "software engineer“

site:plus.google.com AND ("java" OR "jee5" OR

"jee6") AND ("hibernate" OR "spring" OR

"struts" OR "developer" OR "engineer" OR

"sde" OR "swe") AND "seattle"

site:about.me AND ”java“ AND “seattle”

best social media explanation ever…

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattleblanc

Twitter @matthewjleblanc

Instagram matthew_leblanc

Recruiting Blog http://www.12recruiters.wordpress.com

Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/matthewleblanc

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthewleblanc

Tumblr http://matthewjleblanc.tumblr.com

Quora http://www.quora.com/Matthew-LeBlanc

About.Me http://about.me/mattleblanc

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