Social Media for the Job Search: Promoting Your Own Brand Awareness Online

The process of submitting your resume for a posted position and praying that perhaps yours will be the one selected out of the hundreds they receive is a tedious and often futile pursuit. As an experienced job candidate you need to learn how to leverage the online medium, notably the various social media tools, to further your brand identity and awareness in various online forums. Recruiters today troll these environments for both candidate discovery and background research. As such, you need to be there to be found. Guests: David Alpern and Brenda Whitesides