LinkedIn:

• Establish a strong and complete profile
• Ensure your contact information is evident (including email, websites, etc.)
• Research connections at targeted companies where you want to work
• Search groups where you can offer advice and stretch your skills
• Establish SlideShare presentations on your profile that highlight your expertise

Facebook:

• Ensure your contact information is evident (including email, websites, etc.)
• Eliminate items from your profile that would be perceived negative or embarrassing (photos, videos)
• Notify people that you are looking for a job (assuming your search is public)
• Share your expertise as part of your status updates or notes
• Post videos highlighting your expertise

Twitter:

• Establish a strong and complete profile
• Highlight your expertise in your tweets
• Direct people to a website/blog where your skills can be expanded
• Use Search feature to find employers looking for your skill set
• Follow recruiters in your field and executives in targeted companies
• Be someone worth following – don’t be offensive or boring; provide relevant tweets to highlight expertise
• Re-tweet others and participate in the conversation (responses and direct messages)

Google:

• Establish Google Profile to ensure you will be found on first page of Google Search
• Set up Google Alerts to stay abreast of job openings/web postings/announcements from target companies
• Search yourself to determine what information is out there so you can address it when Recruiters ask (because they’ve already “Googled” you before you get called in for the interview!)

NOTE:  These tips were provided by Randy and Donny Vaughn, The Marketing Twins of Fort Worth.   To learn more about The Marketing Twins visit their website, MarketingTwins.com

• List job history and titles
• List skills and accomplishments for each position held
• State educational degrees and plans for future educational goals
• Include active certifications (CPA, CMA, CIA, CPP, etc) and business awards
• List only the organizations that are related to business activities
• Triple check for spelling and grammatical errors
• Do not lie

If you have other tips, please send them to us.  Good luck in your next interview.

• Be Prepared!!
• Research the company and prepare five questions about the company
• Write a script for your responses to standard interview questions
• Review what you have to offer a company and how you can sell yourself
• Dress for success
• Take extra copies of your resume
• Have references available on a separate page
• Do not bring up salary in the first interview
• “Mirror” the Interviewer
• When asking questions, put yourself in the position
• Ask about the next step in the process
• Express your interest, “Ask for the job”
• Always follow up with a handwritten thank you note

If you have other tips, please send them to us.  Good luck in your next interview.