Continuing with my graduate themed blog week, I have scoured the
web leaving no virtual stone unturned, to give you my top 5 unmissable
additions to your job hunt:
1) LinkedIn- This site is a
great way to connect with people in the business world. It combines all
the best bits of a social networking site and delivers them in one
shiny neat package for the professional market. It's sort of like
Facebook but without the 'which powerpuff girl are you?' quizzes and
the unflattering drunken photos tagged of you.
LinkedIn gives you the
opportunity to network with business people and you can search and
invite them to connect with you; contacts that may even lead to
securing you your next job. You can add your blog and even create a
business bio to show off your skills, talents and educational
achievements.
2) Twitter- What's this? Twitter for a job
search? Surely not, I hear you cry. But don't underestimate the mighty
Twitter and it's ability to help you in your job hunt. The recruitment
industry is never one to be left in the dark when it comes to embracing
new technologies and popular social mediums, so it was only a matter of
time before recruitment agencies, job boards and other recruitmenty
individuals divebombed with full force onto the Twitter bandwagon.
Thought only by some to be a faddy micro blogging phenomenon that will
be forgotten when '
MyFaceReunited' brings out some other uber
trendy social platform; but Twitter has already established itself as
an ideal place for the job market to infiltrate. You can search for
jobs on Twitter, follow your favourite jobsite to see their latest
vacancies and even get jobseeking tips tweeted to you, if you follow
the
right accounts.
One jobs website that uses Twitter
particularly successfully for jobseeking is
AllTheTopBananas.com, who
have set up over 200 Twitter handles for specific location and industry
based job searching. By looking at the following list of
@alltopbananas
you can decide which of their accounts to follow and receive job alerts
straight to your Twitter account in a direct message. The DM feature of
Twitter allows you to keep your job search entirely private, so no-one
can see these tweets. For more information on how to jobseek with
AllTheTopBananas and Twitter, you can check out the
Twitter Page on their site.
3) Boris might have 'just the job'- OK,
some of
you might have the impression that Boris Johnson is nothing more than a
random tory loon with a penchant for saying the wrong thing at the
wrong time. But despite any reservations you may have over the wispy haired oddball, he
has come up with a few less than hair brained ideas- and some of those might even help you find a job!
Boris
has come up with
a site specifically aimed at getting graduates into
work, and displays over 500 vacancies in and around the London borough
specifically for you lot, you lucky bunch! The site also has careers
advice and information on upcoming recruitment events in London to
boot, so it is definitely worth a look.
4) Try on a career for size- Graduates of 2008 and 2009 should take
a look at newly launched site
Graduate Talent Pool; a website dedicated
to pairing graduates up with internships and placements. The site has
over 3000 vacancies which can be searched by location, career, start
date, duration of the placement and whether you require a paid or
unpaid vacancy. Its aim is to ensure graduates have the opportunity to
gain work experience to make finding their next job that bit easier.
5) FreeMyCV.com- Ok so no jobseeking list could be complete
without mentioning the very best site to aid your job hunt!! A
shameless plug you scream? yes, yes it is- but at least I didn't put it
at the top of the list! For those of you who may have come into the
wonderful world of my blog and managed to completely bypass the other
pages of this site-
FreeMyCV.com is a free CV distribution service that
aims to make the jobseeker's life a lot easier. Rather than spending
ages filling out the same information on various different websites so
that you are registered and thus can actually apply for some jobs, we
ask you to fill in this info only once, and we'll do all the legwork
for you! We'll register you on different jobs websites that match your
skills and provide you with these registrations so that you can then go
on and job hunt more efficiently. We will also give them your CV so
that employers can contact you directly if they have a vacancy that
matches your skills. Simple!!
Happy Job Hunting!!
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