by Diana Urban on April 20, 2012
Social media is a great networking resource when you’re looking for a new job, your first job out of college, or an internship. I got my current job at HubSpot nearly two years ago because of connections I’d made on Twitter, so I can say with certainty that it works.
Since I’ve recently hired an intern to work with me this summer, I’ve sifted through lots of resumes and internet stalked my candidates, like every (smart) hiring manager in this day and age will do. So I’ve seen a lot of mistakes that kept people from interning at Boston’s #1 place to work for two years running. I wanted to share these with you, so you can avoid these snafus. Keep in mind that every hiring manager is looking for different things; these are just the things that I personally would take into consideration.
Here are 10 ways to hurt your job search or internship (so don’t do these things!):
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by Diana Urban on April 17, 2012
Once you’ve created and optimized your Facebook page, you might be wondering how successful your page really is. The Facebook Insights dashboard will help you determine how successful your page is at generating likes, visits, clicks, and engagement. It will also help you gauge whether or not your content and engagement strategies are working.
To see your Facebook Insights dashboard, click on the settings icon at the top-right side of your page, and then select View Insights from the drop-down menu.
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by Diana Urban on April 12, 2012
When you need to assign a colleague tasks on your company’s Facebook page, or if you hire a social media agency or consultant to work on your Facebook page, it’s usually necessary for them to be granted admin rights. You can easily add your Facebook friends as an admin of your fan page, but if you’re not Facebook friends, you can add people via their email address. This will work for both fans and non-fans of your page.
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by Diana Urban on April 4, 2012
If you’ve added people to your Google+ circles, you might have noticed that these people have been automatically added to your Gmail chat pane. So now, not only can your friends see when you’re logged into your personal email and chat with you, but so can your coworkers, students, or other people in your professional network. This can lead to unwanted work-related conversations on nights and weekends, when all you want to do is chat and make plans with your pals.
Google doesn’t make it obvious how to remove your Google+ contacts from chat while logged into Gmail. That’s because you can’t; you need to be on the Google+ view to remove these contacts. Here’s how:
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