How Social Media Can Help You Land — or Lose — Your Dream Job

Whether you know it or not, recruiters are looking at you every day — Googling your name, scrutinizing your tweets, scanning your inadvertently public Facebook posts.

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2. “Some employers aren’t even bothering to post jobs. Instead, they’re searching online for the right candidate.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES, 2013
5. This is now your resume.
7. “I’m not looking for incriminating photos of you on Facebook. I can get a really well- rounded view of you by how you represent yourself online.” —JOEL GREENGRASS, BUZZFEED
8. Do you have young kids? Are you religious? Do you have health issues? Are you rich? Are you pro-choice? Are you over 50?
16. What if my resume were my last five tweets?
17. I work well in teams.
18. I have good judgment.
19. I can find and analyze information.
20. I have strong communication skills.
21. “I care less about what you say on Twitter and more about who is following you and whom you follow.” —AMBRA BENJAMIN, FACEBOOK
26. “A friend wrote recently to thank me for helping his career. Not having done a thing as far as I could tell, I was pleased to know he was refer- ring to my insistence that he spruce up his LinkedIn profile, even if he wasn’t seeking a new job. As it turns out, a new job found him when a recruiter viewed his profile.” —ADAM LASHINSKY
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51. “Everybody Googles themselves. Even if they don’t admit it. I wanted to invade that secret, egotistical moment when the creative directors I admired were most vulnerable.” —ALEC BROWNSTEIN
52. Ian Reichenthal
60. NEVER DO THIS Unemployed INSTEAD, TRY THIS Advertising expert looking to help a mission-driven organization
61. Your Next Employee Available for Immediate Hire 2014 – Present (6 months) | Washington, DC Area I’m making a career shift, so that I can better deploy my marketing, social media and event-production skills. Open to relocation.
62. Principal Jane Richmond Strategies 2014 – Present (6 months) | Irvington, New York Provide high-level business counsel to corporations and nonprofits.
65. “The reality is that my Twitter account is a Times account. The Times does not control it, but the Times is held accountable for what appears on it. Indeed, the casual reader interprets my social accounts as an extension of our digital platforms, for good and ill.” —NICK CONFESSORE, THE NEW YORK TIMES
66. McCain Aide Circulates Obama/Wright Video, Is Suspended
67. The GOP Aide Who Said Malia and Sasha Obama Lacked “Class” Just Resigned
76. Jonathan Rick