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Author: Career Key's President and CEO, Juliet Wehr Jones, GCDF, J.D.

Friday, November 14, 2008

A Social Media Resource for Career Planners

I’m always looking for ideas about how to use social networking and new Web 2.0 tools to help people make better career and small business start-up choices. Chris Brogan’s Blog is one of the best resources I’ve found for tips on using social media – not just for promoting your personal brand but also promoting your business.

When you click on his tag “LinkedIn,” you find a great post (among others) “Write Your LinkedIn Profile For Your Future.” This idea of presenting yourself with the future in mind reminded me of my recent post, “Choose Your Career First, Tweet Later.” Brogan drills down further by focusing on LinkedIn, with some concrete, practical suggestions for improving your profile.

He’s definitely more connected than I would like to be – you read his blog and wonder whether he tweets and sends messages 24 hours a day. But you can take some ideas and apply them to your situation – it helps to have a virtual expert on social media in your career planning toolbox.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi, I love your website. It's really helpful.

I am trying to find a few professionals to help us out at http://www.thesameboat.com - a free job forum. You could use it to help out job seekers and probably get some traffic coming back to your blog. Thanks!