Making a perfect Resume using Social Media

 

Today Kelly will share her knowledge on making a perfect resume using social media. Job seeking can be made a lot easier if you follow these simple tips to give your resume that professional look.

With the ever increasing use of Social Media Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and a host of others, job seeking and researching has changed quite a lot. The platforms give the job seeker a forum that enables to reach out to recruiters and key decision makers at their target organizations and cut the extra layers.

While the Social Media space is a huge benefit to the job seekers but it should be used in conjunction with the traditional forms of resume and walk-ins. The Social media outlets serve to enhance the more traditional forms like resumes and provide them with a cutting edge which can make the difference between a job seeker and a job holder.

Some of the things that should be kept in mind while drafting a resume and using Social media are:

1. Give a Link to your Online Social Profiles

The resume should have a link to your online profiles especially Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook so as to give you a human face. This ensures transparency and provides a complete profile to potential recruiters.

Please do keep in mind that your online profiles should be clean and nothing objectionable or offending should be posted.

2. Update your Social Profiles Regularly

When you provide links to your profiles, make sure that these are updated and do not have outdated information. By updated we don’t mean, post anything, rather post interesting content. The presence of interesting content will always help you gain recommendations and earn more profile views.

Keep a tab and check all your profiles especially in online professional communities and platforms.

3. Give only a piece, not the Whole Pie!

When you post information from your resume to your online profiles, do check it once and do not copy the entire information as some of it may be confidential like projects and other company related details.

You should also withhold some info for you to discuss during the interview. You have to maintain a nice balance and then decide what to post and what to keep private.

4. Always use relevant Keywords

When you post an online profile or resume, use relevant keywords to describe skills and expertise as most of the recruiters use Google or resume parser applications that produce results based on keywords.

You may need to stuff your resume with relevant industry jargon, skills and project keywords but do not overdo it. This will ensure that your resume or profile comes up top in the searches and you can land that dream job.

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