Social Media & online applications for GT Hiring Solutions Clients
May 11, 2015
Social Media & online applications
for GT Hiring Solutions Clients
Who ...?
• who has a mobile smart phone? by 2013 mobiles out# PC’s personal computers!
• who uses google? youtube? bing? for internet searching
• who texts more than use the actual phone? who remembers a rotary phone with party lines??? 70’s kids!
• Who uses FB to stay in touch with friends outside long distance areas? or your friends that live almost next door?
• who uses twitter ? or knows teenagers who use it?
• who uses foursquare or yelp to find restaurants or gyms?
What is social media?
• Social Media or SM is a term used mostly by Gen X or baby boomers to describe online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Foursquare, etc....
• What to expect from 3 hour workshop
• How can SM help you find work?
• Where do you start to use SM to help you find work?
• “Play time” after each SM theme introduced
The stats...
•Facebook 850million users (2012)
Twitter 200million users (2011)
Linkedin 120million users (march 2011)
Google+ 25million users 10mill in 2 weeks of “limited phase” Tumbler 13 million users
What does this mean?
• New revolution: social media is the next communication tool that changes everything we do!!!!!
• who has tried google’ing their name ?
• What comes up?
• This will be done on computers for each person
• the # of hits that are really you on page one is what we are looking for
• This will be your baseline of your online presence
social media: how can it help you find
work?Linkedin: professional platform
Linkedin #1• 135 million users
• all professionals
• makes a profit
• decreases 6 degrees of separation to 3
• networking geniusness
• recommendations
• add skills & search for jobs & follow companies u want to work for
Linkedin Play
• Review linkedin home page
• Using Sheny’s linkedin page
• what companies are on there?
• What jobs come up & why?
• How do you best complete your profile?
• Resources: shenygregory.com
get me connected
Social Media tool #2: TwitterFollow companies you want to work for; if an
If you are an expert in an area; start your own twitter account; see mine http://twitter.com/shenykerFollow employment agencies for job tips and postingsFollow people of influence (500+ followers)Follow experts in your field
twitter.com/shenykertwitter.com/gvsduncan
Twitter - you can search twitter without an accountUse hashtags - #jobs or #jobs victoria or #marketing See what comes up?The unfortunate thing is twitter accounts don’t always reflect the companyie gvsduncan if you don’t know it may not come up in your search - don’t expect google results
Research company values, successes & community involvement via FB
Facebook has a fan page / business page option for businesses that you can follow to show your interest, share insights, etcFB is scheduled to be a public company which means you can buy shares for it $
Facebook: need to be member to search personal
business pages can be found by google search i.e. global vocational services;
The purpose of social media is
to meet f2f, share ideas,
solve problems
tweetups,Obama, Egypt
e.g. meet-ups, Obama, Egypt