7 Client Lands Job Posted on Twitter (via @Monsterca)

Her recent email read “Remember that job posting you sent me about a Bilingual Marketing Manager where they asked me to translate my résumé to French? I want to let you know that I got an offer and I accepted it. I am very excited since there will be a lot of interesting challenges and I am getting everything I want – salary, vacation and benefits. Thank you for all your help and I will keep in touch.”

This email was from a client with whom I had been working for several months. She was having a tough time finding a marketing manager’s position and thought that nine months was unbelievably too long to be looking for work. At times in our conversations I could sense her frustration, but I reminded her gently that job searching could be a slow and tedious process, but if she kept her head up and continued doing the right things she would eventually land the job she wanted. “Giving up”, I told her, “was not an option.” She hung in there and got the job.

How did it happen? Most of my readers and all my clients know I invest a lot of time in social media and it’s mostly for educational purposes. On Twitter, for example, I follow hiring managers, recruiters and job boards, and participate in Twitter Chats with HR professionals, recruiters and leadership coaches to keep abreast of trends. Through these channels, I sometimes become aware of job opportunities and if I find that someone in my network seem to be a match for an opportunity (whether they are clients or not), I forward the information to them. This Bilingual Marketing Manager’s job is a great example. I saw it on Twitter. Monster Canada (@Monsterca) and I follow each other. When I read the requirements, it sounded perfect for my client so I forwarded it to her. She translated her résumé to French, and after a couple of interviews and several weeks of waiting (because of the summer holidays), she landed the job with “everything she wanted…” as noted above.

It is often said that looking for a job is a full-time job, and that’s correct. What many job seekers do not realize is that they need to employ a variety of strategies to ensure their search is successful. Having a great résumé is one thing, but using ineffective job search methods or relying on one particular strategy will not help you land the job of your dreams. Social media tools like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and others should be included in every job seeker’s toolkit. That’s where employers and recruiters hang out these days. Job boards are still around, but the companies behind these boards have extended their reach via social media, and if you are an early adopter, you will be way ahead of those clammering for the same job as you.

And, don’t buy in to the concept that there are no jobs! Jobs are out there, but you need to employ different strategies, be deliberate with your search and visualize yourself sitting at the desk as an employee at one of your target companies! “Whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve.”

I hope you have gained some value from this post. Connect with me if you need to discuss how you can move your career forward. I will be pleased to have a chat!

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Daisy Wright is the Career Results Coach at The Wright Career Solution and author of No Canadian Experience, Eh? A Career Success Guide for New Immigrants. She can be reached by phone at (647) 930-4763, by email atinfo[at] thewrightcareer.comVisit her websites: www.thewrightcareer.com and www.daisywright.com.