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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Leveraging Social Media to Land a Job

By Marguerite Granat, Senior Recruiter with Sodexo.

Have you leveraged social media to land your new job? Do you take your online conversations offline?

I did. When I started using Twitter actively, I would have never dreamed that this would be the tool that helped me land my new job with Sodexo. When I started using Twitter, I encountered resistance from a number of people who did not see its value.

It was a leap of faith and I decided to explore this platform realizing that Twitter is another communication tool that can be used to connect with people both online and offline. This is no different than when we went from using faxes to emails or from the telegraph to the telephone. Twitter is not going to replace live conversations but...read more