use social media to get a job in marketing
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How to use Social media to stand out and get hired.TRANSCRIPT
So you wanna work in Marketing?
Matt Hames
Social Media Strategist
Eric Mower and Associates
@mhames
linkedin.com/in/matthames
• About you.
• Your brand.
• Stand out.
You.
• You are in a unique position.
• Senior people at ad agencies can remember the day they got e-mail.
• You can teach.
• But first, you have to prove you know something.
• So lets assume for a minute that your resume is on Hot Jobs and Monster and all of those.
• You’re also sending your resume and cover letters to a bunch of agencies all over the country.
• Social networks ask you to status cast.
• What are you doing? Working on. Where are you?
• What do you know?
• You need to get out the message of who you are, what you like, and what you know.
Your brand.
• Two years ago, Agency.com held interviews for Web 2.0 experts in a web 2.0 world -- Second Life.
• IBM wrote a white paper saying that WoW Guild Leaders were management potential.
• If you play in these worlds, add it to your resume.
• If you build 3D models in Second Life or Google Earth, add it to your resume.
• Those are two of the “Second world” logos. If you excel in a game or multiplayer world, tell people why that makes you a good hire.
• Insert picture of you having a good time here.
• This isn’t a bad thing.
• There’s nothing wrong with having pictures on Facebook of you partying
• Just balance it.
• Make LinkedIn the up-to-date you
• It should be 100% complete
• Get your name: http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthames
• Connect to important people
• Join relevant groups.
• Ask and answer questions.
• Show off your expertise.
• If someone gives you a “Best answer” LinkedIn calls you an expert.
• Follow companies you want to work at.
• At EMA, we hired someone on LinkedIn.
• Our HR person went out looking for people who fit our opening.
• Would he have found you?
• Follow agencies, or people at agencies who are on Twitter.
• Can’t write?
• Speak your mind on YouTube.
• Create a Weekly Talk where you present your ideas on your channel.
• Add your channel to your resume.
• Wordpress is a place to show off your knowledge in a blog.
• If you update Wikipedia, or a blog
• Put it on LinkedIn and your resume!
• Slideshare is a place to show off your knowledge.
• In power point.
• Social bookmarking proves smarts.
Stand out.
Own the first page on Google
• In your cover letter, tell people to Google you.
usernamecheck.com
• If you can own your spot on Google.
• You can do it for a brand.
• Explain to people how to do it.
• But Matt, my name is Brad Pitt.
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• It’s a cliché, but you need to stand out.
• HR Google's everyone.