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SOCIAL MEDIA RESOURCES FOR INCREASING YOUR JOB SEARCH EFFECTIVENESSDeveloped by Dr. Caitlin Williams for the ALA JobLIST Placement Center chat held March 22, 2012Alba, J. (2012). I’m on Linked In, Now What? A guide to getting the most out of LinkedIn. 3rd edition. Cupertino, CA: Happy About Books.Levinson, J C. & Perry, D. (2011). Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0: How to stand out from the crowd and tap into the hidden job market using social media and 999 other tactics today. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons.McFedries, P. (2009). Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley.Salpeter, M. (2011). Social Networking for Career Success. New York: LearningExpress.Stay, J. & Alba, J. (2008). I’m on Facebook, Now What? How to get personal, business and professional value from Facebook. Cupertino, CA: Happy About Books.Waldman, J. (2011). Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons.Waldman, J. DVDs: Getting the Right Job with Social Media, available at:, S. & Bryan, C. (2010). The Twitter Job Search Guide: Find a job and advance your career in just 15 minutes a day. St. Paul, MN: JIST WorksWEBSITESSocial Networking sites:Social News sites:Sites where you can share video, photo and audio:Sites for company information:Job-Sites that aggregate jobs:Sites that list blogs:Sites that you can use in conjunction with Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn:Other sites mentioned:ALA Job List Direct Career Enlightenment (Joshua Waldman’s site)Heidi Cohen – definitions of social mediaKeppie Careers (Miriam Salpeter’s site) – survey of social media recruiting – helps your organize and share your online identity ................
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