In a down economy, it is of the utmost importance to expand your network. The best way to find a job or get new business or through those that you know.





1) Include your e-mail address in your profile after your last name (this makes it easier to add you)



2) Add Toplinked.com and Lion to the body of your profile. (These are terms that open net workers use to search for those open to adding more connections)



3) Go to Toplinked.com and send invites to those… Continue

First off if you want to follow me on Twitter

http://twitter.com/hydra1970



Last week I wrote an entry about using Twitter and Facebook with Tiny URL to use your status to promote anything from your resume to job postings to events.



It turns out there is a short cut using Firefox

First off, you should be using Firefox as they are many extensions and tools that are helpful with recruiting and sourcing.



The useful add on is called TinyURL creator and you… Continue

It took me a while to understand the point of Twitter but at the Recruiting Road Show I saw the light.



You can search them outside of your network and outside of your network can search yours.

You can also add a URL of what you want to promote, shorten it with Tiny URL and make it appear in both your Facebook and Twitter Status.



You will need to have both a Facebook and Twitter account.



Add the Twitter application on… Continue

(this is a response to a post on Sourcers unleashed on the types of sourcing...)



The types of sourcing that I do is a mix of online (passive and active), phone and networking.



The online sourcing can be broken down further into targeting active candidates/those that respond (ie low hanging fruit) through various job boards and getting responses from general and niche job boards. Then of course there is using the Internet to identify passive candidates that may be… Continue

I wrote this following entry on my website to encourage Job Seekers to post their resume on a home page
http://web.me.com/hydra9/Resume/Getting_your_resume_found.html

Certain professions like Software Engineers are far more likely to put together a Home Page with their resume than others but many of use search engines to find candidates.

Marcus Ronaldi