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Graduate Watch

by Sarah 14. August 2009 09:48
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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