As you may know, Ignite Social Media is a close knit group who has grown rather quickly in the last year. Since I started, the agency has doubled and we’re still growing. In that time, we have chosen carefully to ensure we’re getting people that are the perfect fit for each opening and it hasn’t been easy. I know that when I get a huge batch of resumes there must be someone in the lot that could do the job at hand, but none stand out and I still struggle to pull a few decent options out of the mix. Getting a job is about marketing yourself successfully, which is more important than ever as the applicant pool begins to swell in this economy. So, with that in mind, I figured I’d share my advice for getting a job using social media.
Start with the PEOPLE you are trying to reach
- Have you looked up the company online? - Do they have a website and have you taken the time to really immerse yourself in the information they are putting out there for you to find?
- Do they have a blog? – If not, does their website have a voice or personality you can identify with? Do they have a mission statement or other content that can clue you in to their way of thinking?

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You can’t go through your feed reader these days without running into a number of posts about corporation x’s new use of social media. 

To clarify, I’m not referring to the search functionality but instead to driving site traffic. So, is Facebook the new Google? According to
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