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This month’s article is a must-read. Within the career services industry much time has been spent discussing, researching, and developing strategies for capitalizing on Social Networking to secure a new position. While it doesn’t and won’t eliminate the need for a traditional résumé for years to come, it is becoming more and more important. Networking, getting your résumé into the hands of recruiters, and traditional networking are still vital, but Social Networking is no longer for kids or Internet junkies.

“Networking” – Instead of reading resumes, more employers are using social media to find job candidates.

Ask him how his job search is going, and Craig Stack will tell you he’s frustrated as hell. The displaced trade operations manager wakes up at the crack of dawn every morning, types Indeed.com into his browser and checks to see what new job openings have been posted. Next, he goes to LinkedIn to find out if anyone in his network is hiring, then he searches the major job boards like Monster, HotJobs and CareerBuilder.

“I apply for every job I qualify for,” says Stack, who estimates he’s sent out 600 resumes in his 13 months of unemployment. In response, he’s gotten fewer than a dozen e-mails even acknowledging that his material has been received.

“I feel like I’m sending my resume into a black hole,” says Stack, who used to earn big bucks providing services for the likes of Barclays, Computershare and Equiserve.

Ryan Hebert’s experience with job boards wasn’t much better. While the management consultant got occasional calls from recruiters when he used sites like Monster.com, they never amounted to much.

So instead of spending his time on job sites, Hebert decided to give social networks a try. He tweaked and updated his LinkedIn profile every few weeks, and worked at growing and cultivating his network of connections.

“Almost every time I added something to my profile, I was contacted by recruiters,” he says. It didn’t take long before he figured out that sites like LinkedIn send out notices to your connections whenever you update your credentials. As a result of his efforts, Hebert landed seven or eight quality interviews, one of which resulted in a job at Ernst & Young.

Hebert discovered something millions of other job seekers have yet to learn — that more and more employers are utilizing social networks as part of their hiring strategies. Instead of passively inspecting resumes that land on their desks, they’re using Twitter to broadcast job openings; they’re using LinkedIn to search for and connect with workers who meet specific job requirements, they’re using Facebook to brand themselves and to court potential hires, and they’re using social media widgets that deliver relevant information to potential candidates’ iPhones and Facebook pages.

“We will use every opportunity we have to connect directly with the job seeker as opposed to through a job board,” says Carrie Corbin, senior human resources manager at

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/jobs/net_working_xLfN0gZmlCFLe7lgHZQe7N#ixzz0Z0jnGdRQ

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