Willy Franzen, founder of One Day, One Job posted:  Use Facebook Ads to Make Employers Hunt You Down and reveals results from an experience on using Facebook for job searching. Check it out, and join the dialogue on his site.  Willy’s post “How I Used Twitter to Get Meetings with 3 CEOs and a VP […]

5 (free) tools to cure your Social Network Fatigue and get your life back! Are you… Busy? Someone who finds value in Social web stuff? Overwhelmed with the myriad of social networks and web 2.0 doodads? Not wanting to be left out, but want a life too? Feel slightly guilty even taking time to read […]

I’m a prolific blogger, video maven, twitter lover and chat junkie. I also like to attend conferences, parties, barcamps, Tweetups, you get it. I’m a networker. I believe that has a lot to do with recruiting people (since I meet a lot of them through allll these mediums). Anyway, as I “put myself out there” […]

According to an article written by Selena Dehne of Jist Publishing 83% of recruiters leverage search engines to uncover information about potential candidates. But, did you know that these same candidates are conducting the same type of research on you? Unfortunately there are a lot of people out there that feel recruiters have a bad […]

Most of you would be familiar with this trend. You make some great friends at work and develop this fantastic sense of camaraderie with them when one of them decides to leave and go on to another job. You have a tearful farewell party for them and sign their goodbye card with an endearing message […]

Social Networking is a Friendship Paradise but what is Social Networking? Most of us are part of Social Networking Websites. This post is for the people who don’t know the importance of Social Networking or for those who are not members of these social networking websites. Social Networking is one of the greatest things that […]

A quick thanks to Paul DeBettignies for creating a list of Recruiters using twitter. You can see the list created on RecruitingBlogs.com, by clicking here. I have been enjoying twitter in a variety of ways over the past 5 months, and have written the following posts about it: Recruiting, Social Media, and Friends. Twitter Rocks! […]

From Jason Buss (@jjbuss). What all started with my first tweet – has continued to evolve into something so much more than answering that simple question – “what are you doing”? After talking with a good friend earlier this year (@seerysm) about twitter, I decided to give it a try. So I started with a […]

Is it time to roll the dice? Research and Markets: How to Prevent Damaging Employee Lawsuits: The Employer’s Practical Legal Guide About Current Employment Law Atomkeep celebrates 1 month of service. This Web 2.0 service allowed users to synchronize their profiles between major social networking web sites, job boards, blogs and other sites. Removing personal […]

“Is it enough just to be on LinkedIn and Facebook?” “I just got an invite from a friend who’s on Plaxo. What is it and should I join?” “Will I dilute my networking effectiveness if I’m on MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter?” Read “Beware of social networking overload“, By Eve Tahmincioglu. One company that seems […]

By Jason Buss. Like it or not, your personal brand and reputation is built in many ways – consciously or unconsciously – by what you do, the sites and tools you use, where you work, your profile, and more. You likely use social media and social networking sites along with a variety of tools on […]

By Jason Buss – a.k.a. @jjbuss Social Media and Social Networking are phrases that have monopolized online communities worldwide the past couple of years. New sites, communities, and tools are being created just as quickly in response to the growing demand and use of many popular sites. Twitter, which has been praised and beaten over […]