LinkedIn, Twitter And Facebook – How Can These Help In Your Job Search?

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are extremely valuable job-search tools with today’s growing desire for instant information and dependency on networking. Facebook and LinkedIn fulfill the networking dependency. Twitter is better for delivering instant information.

Twitter has grown over 1000% in last year – mainly b/c of the celebrity presence. But this doesn’t mean it can’t be used as an effective job-search tool. Many companies have a presence on Twitter. And some of the bigger employers have multiple accounts, including an entire job/hiring-oriented presence (i.e. @CitigroupJobs, @VerizonCareers, @ibmbejobs). If job-seeking candidates can find these accounts, they can be some of the first interested job-seekers to apply for open jobs (increasing chances of getting hired).

Twitter can also be a more business-appropriate job search tool. Unlike Facebook, where “inappropriate pictures, videos, notes, and messages can be posted, Twitter is basically just answering the question “what are you doing?”. Most MBAs cannot get into any trouble answering this question (though there are of course some exceptions). In any case, most MBAs therefore are willing to use their personal Twitter account as a job-searching tool. (FYI – anyone using a personal Twitter account should be aware of tools like TweetDeck which allow you to separate the Twitter account you follow into groups – therefore allowing you to create a “job search group” that can be checked daily for new jobs and MBA job-related news).

For example: I am currently experimenting with Twitter to better promote MBAs to both employers and job-seeking MBAs. I have opened up 6 accounts to tinker with:

http://twitter.com/MBAFocus
http://twitter.com/hireMBAs
http://twitter.com/MBAalumni
http://twitter.com/jobs4MBAs
http://twitter.com/MBArecruiters
http://twitter.com/bskool

Some of these have just been opened, and are still a work in progress. But I plan on making all 6 URLs relevant and well-followed Twitter accounts with interesting information pertaining to selected audiences. Start following them today and please give feedback via Twitter or this blog. Any advice is welcome.

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Searchable MBA Resume Books
The following is a list of MBA resume books that will be available to search this week:

• MIT - Sloan
• Syracuse
• Univ of S Carolina
• Univ of Washington
• Baruch
• Babson
• Florida Int'l
• Ohio State - Fisher

Looking for resume books from other top business schools? Go here for a full list of schools and release dates. For more info see: How to Access and Search the Resumes

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Post your job opportunities to nearly 60 graduate business school job boards at once. For $195.00 you can post a job opening to as many or as few schools as desired. You can also choose your audience: 1st-year interns, graduating 2nd-year students, and/or experienced alumni.

Have multiple job openings? You can also buy packages of MultiPosts and save:

• 1 post for $195
• 3 posts for $495
• 5 posts for $895
• 10 posts for $1,495

For more information see: How to MultiPost

Top 100 “Most Desired” MBA Employers Looking to Hire You!

Universum IDEAL™ has just released its annual list of the "most desired" companies to work for according to a survey of over 6,000 respondents from 58 top MBA programs around the world. Once again, Google takes the top spot (for the third year in a row). Here is the rest of the top 10:

1. Google

2. McKinsey & Company

3. Bain & Company

4. Goldman Sachs

5. Apple Computer

6. The Boston Consulting Group

7. Walt Disney

8. Nike

9. J.P. Morgan

10. Johnson & Johnson

See the rest of the list at: http://www.wetfeet.com/universumrankings/MBA-2009.aspx

Are you an MBA looking for a job from these top MBA employers? Are you a student or alumni from one of the top MBA programs in the world? Then you can find job postings and post your resume to an exclusive network of MBAs and companies like these at http://www.mbafocus.net/alumni

For two decades, the MBA Focus team has provided advanced recruitment technology to the world’s top-ranked graduate business schools. These schools count on us for their online resume books, job boards and office automation needs. In partnership with them, we have created a single network for employers to access elite MBA students and alumni.

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These employers are Fortune 500 companies and big-name MBA employers, like Amazon, Avery Dennison, Boston Consulting Group, Ernst & Young, McKinsey and Company, and Medtronic. In fact, more than 2500 recruiters, representing over 60 top firms, use MBA Focus regularly – and over 1800 other MBA hiring firms order resumes and post jobs through MBA Focus on an annual basis.

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The MultiPost job network allows you to post your job to over 60 of the world’s elite MBA programs at once with just a few clicks. Put your job openings in front of thousands of talented MBAs worldwide.

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“We were very pleased with the depth and breadth of candidates we received through MBA Focus - we were able to hit up all the major MBA programs in one swoop which is just invaluable. In fact, the candidates we received are finalists for the position we posted.”

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Class of 2009-2010 MBA Student Resumes Available Now!

Save thousands in recruiting fees through access to this exclusive pool of MBA talent. Simply click below and order these online resume books to start your top-tier talent search today:

Boston College - Carroll School of Management
Carnegie Mellon - Tepper School of Business
Columbia - Columbia Business School
Cornell University - The Johnson School
Dartmouth - Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
Harvard - Harvard Business School
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Rice University - Jones Graduate School of Management
Stanford - Stanford Graduate School of Business
The University of Western Ontario - Ivey School of Business
Thunderbird - School of Global Management
UCLA - Anderson School of Management
University of California Berkeley - Haas School of Business
University of California, Irvine - Merage School of Business
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
University of North Carolina - Kenan–Flagler Business School
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Looking for more resume books from other top business schools? Go here for a full list of schools and release dates: http://www.mbafocus.net/resumepricesdates

Note: Many of these resume databases are offered as “All Candidate” combo packages for discount prices. For more information and pricing of combo packages, sign in to the MBA Focus Store here: https://www.MBAFocus.com/orders and/or click on the school of interest.

Did You Know?

DID YOU KNOW within the exclusive MBA Focus job-search and resume database network there are currently 3,475 top-tier MBAs with an MBA concentration in Marketing.

Tuck, Stanford and UNC MBA Resume Books Available Now!

The following resume book databases have been or will be released during the next month:

Resume Books Available Now:
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Univ North Carolina - Kenan–Flagler Business School

Upcoming Resume Book Releases:
Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business - 9/4/09
Boston College - Carroll School of Management - 9/8/09
Carnegie Mellon - Tepper School of Business - 9/8/09
Cornell University - The Johnson School - 9/8/09
Harvard - Harvard Business School - 9/8/09
New York University - Stern School of Business - 9/8/09
Univ of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School - 9/8/09

Note: Many of these resume databases are offered as "All Candidate" combo packages at discount prices. Learn more about prices and resume book release dates for these schools plus more than 50 other elite MBA programs at: http://www.mbafocus.net/resumepricesdates

And follow MBA Focus at for updates on resume books, job postings, and MBA recruiting in general.

Testimonial for MBA Focus

"Using MBA Focus has allowed me to connect with very talented candidates who I may never have met using other tools/channels. We've recently hired two terrific individuals and we know they will make a difference in our business."
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