Find a Job Through Social Networking: Use LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and More to Advance Your Career [Paperback]

Diane Crompton (Author), Ellen Sautter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2010 | Series: Find a Job Through Social Networking: Use Linkedin, Twitter,

Millions of people have embraced online networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, but too few understand how much influence these sites can have in accelerating their job search and career.

This timely book unveils the reality that online networking is more than a fun way to pass time. It's a career management strategy that is rapidly changing the way job seekers and employers connect in the world of work. With this guide, readers will discover how to launch their online networking efforts and will gain advice for getting the most out of LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs and other sites. They'll also learn how to find jobs, seek advice, research employers, build a network, and create online portfolios and blogs. Additional guidance and worksheets help readers develop and communicate their personal brand online.

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About the Author

Diane Crompton brings more than 15 years experience in career-transition services, recruiting, education, and consulting. She has coached professionals at all levels from a wide range of functional and industry backgrounds and with varying career objectives, including self-employment.

Ellen Sautter has provided career transition support to tens of thousands of clients of all backgrounds including professionals and executives. She is a Senior Career Management Consultant with Right Management and has nearly 20 years experience as a career coach in the career-transition industry.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Jist Works; 2 edition (October 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593578172
• ISBN-13: 978-1593578176
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #605,514 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

As a social media and personal branding strategist Diane has over 20 years of experience in coaching, recruiting, education and training. She was an early adopter of social networking tools like LinkedIn and has co-authored several books on this subject, "Seven Days to Online Networking" (2008) and "Find a Job through Social Networking" (2010). She's shared this expertise with hundreds of professionals from diverse industry backgrounds through one-on-one coaching, group instruction, live and web based instruction. Diane has taken this ability to a higher more expansive level through providing coaching and consulting to professionals on how to build their personal brand and make connections through leveraging social media.

In addition to Diane's background as an educator, and a nationwide recruiter for several contingency and retained search firms, she's worked for over nine years as a Senior Consultant with an international human resources consulting organization. In this role Diane has provided coaching and career transition services to clients and personnel from all organizational levels and industry backgrounds, including Fortune 500 firms in Atlanta and nationally.

She has served as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) regarding the utilization of social networking tools for career management and personal branding and enjoys speaking at industry, corporate and academic events and is a frequent contributor to media on this topic. Diane holds a B.S. degree in Education from Springfield College in Massachusetts, combined with graduate studies in Instructional Design. She is a member of ACPI (Association of Career Professionals International), and CDI (Career Directors International).

Diane is excited to share her expertise, thought leadership and passion for personal branding and leveraging social media through her consulting company, Crompton & Associates.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference book March 23, 2012

By W. Tarin

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Purchased this book to gain additional information on Social Networking. I was developing a power point presentation on Social Media Networking for a class I am teaching and there are many good ideas and tips in this book. A really great reference for job searching using social media networking.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Ease into Social Networking February 22, 2011

By brnbgch

Format:Paperback

Social Networking is an inseparable feature of your personal/professional life and this book will ease you into it. Well written and has some really great tips with examples of how to put social network sites to best use. Highly Recommended and must read for those not yet introduced to Social networking.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A modern twist on tapping the hidden job market July 4, 2011

By Trio of Biscuits

Format:Paperback

As a freelance professional whose search for a full-time position recently shifted into high gear, I picked up four books to provide insight and tips for making this transition. Despite their recent copyright dates, three of them (Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring: Take Charge of Your Career, Find a Job You Love, and Earn What You Deserve, Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough and Cracking The Hidden Job Market: How to Find Opportunity in Any Economy) were mindnumbingly myopic in their approach to networking -- glossing over or completely ignoring social networks and advocating instead for press-the-flesh interactions almost exclusively. I don't know the world in which the authors live, but the overworked full-timers I know don't have 15 minutes for a cup of coffee with someone they've never met. In fact, I asked roughly a dozen full-time employees how they would respond to a request for a short coffee meeting, and all of them said they had neither the time nor the inclination.

Contrast that with the advice that Diane Crompton and Ellen Sautter put forth in "Find a Job Through Social Networking." They outline the benefits of being online and having a social networking presence. They explain how to market yourself online and ensure your identity is what you want it to be (and how to fix it if it isn't). They urge you to cultivate a full-service network populated with STARS: strategists, targets, allied forces, role models and supporters. Incidentally, most of the employees I asked the coffee meeting question said they'd be receptive to facilitating a LinkedIn introduction when given a polite, well-thought-out request.

The authors cover the biggies -- LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter -- as well as XING, Ryze, Viadeo, Ecademy and others. The book doesn't mention BranchOut, but given the service's newness and fledgling status, that's not unexpected.

Now that I've finished the book, I'm working through the action items that I had noted as I worked my way through. I haven't felt this energized or empowered since reading Jay Conrad Levinson and David E. Perry's Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0: 1,001 Unconventional Tips, Tricks and Tactics for Landing Your Dream Job (Paperback) last year, when my job search was more passive. Crompton and Sautter know their stuff, and they've written a winner for the modern-day job hunter here.