My negative money glitch happened 16 months ago, when I was laid off from a job that had lasted almost ten years. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to have access to DBM one of the world’s leading providers of global outplacement, coaching, and career management firm that provides services for effective career transitions. This company assists you in locating and re-evaluating your career path, revamping your resume, improving you interviewing techniques and so much more. My previous company paid for this service as part of my severance package for a little over a month. I toiled over rewriting resume after resume to create that perfect one. Within that month I attended webinar after webinar on interviewing etiquette, face to face networking, and so much more. The last webinar training was on social networking and how important it was to build a network of people before it became necessary to do so. I know a little late for me to find this out, hence creating another little money glitch. However, it was explained that social media not only should be used in finding a job, but to create a network of people that could keep you informed of opportunities that were happening within the workforce for the duration of your career.
This occurred prior to the near financial collapse and admittedly at that time I had only a few people that were actually connected to me within a social media group. I discovered that my friends, family, and co-workers when it came to social networking online; they were not interested or just were not that internet savvy. The negative money glitch recession that we’re presently enduring has increased job competition to tremendous new highs. There was a job fair a few weeks ago in Houston, in which 2,000 people showed up for the 500 jobs that were available. Presently, these 1 to 4 ratios or more exist though out the country while we wait for the economy to rebound. For this reason job seekers have to look for ways to become more marketable and create an edge to become the winner of a new position. Some of you are probably thinking that you don’t have the time to interact with strangers or you may be like me in that you want to keep your privacy. Well, based on my personal struggles in becoming more marketable in order to attain that right job opportunity; I can tell you that it is important to learn to utilize the networking tools.
If you are online using any of the social networking tools like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, I’m sure that you have noticed the high numbers of HR, hiring managers, and recruiters that are also using these tools to network and make new contacts. It has been said that some jobs are advertised only on these social media sites because the employers feel they have a better opportunity of getting to know the “real” individual they are hiring. If you don’t belong to any networking groups then you are unaware of the positive money glitches that you are missing. It is “in” to be LinkedIn the professional networking group designed for the job seekers and employers in mind by creating relationship building opportunities and keeping its members informed of new opportunities. On Twitter you get short tweets from businesses, marketers, recruiters, the latest news, and more. There have been several tweets and stories concerning members that have heard about jobs here first. VisualCv allows you to create your online resume, interact with other professionals and submit your resume to jobs that are posted with that website. Facebook started out to be mostly for friends and family to communicate, however, during this money glitch recession, it too has become a tool for businesses, marketers, and job seekers to interact and conduct business. There are many, many other social media sites that offer some or all of the services that the fore mention does. In my opinion if you are a job seeker and you are not using at least one of these networking tools you are crippling your job search.