Technology is making it easier for recruiters and job seekers to connect, but to remain on top of the virtual job market you have to keep improving your social network. In addition to a Facebook profile and Twitter account, you should be leveraging a host of social connection tools.
Social connection tools can help you make better connections. If you want to be where the jobs are, you not only need to be on LinkedIn and Facebook but you also need a LinkedUp connection between the two social media centers. LinkUp is the popular job board that provides up-to-date job postings directly from company sites.
Networking tools can also optimize your network. In a more dynamic and fast moving job market, it will be hard to keep up with the competition if you are posting to one site at a time. Tools such as Ping.fm allow you to broadcast a message to as many as 30 social media sites. If you are on the popular Ning network OpenNetwork, you can now link your Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts.
Naymz has quickly grown to a community of one million professional networkers precisely because it offers an extensive list of options to connect people and social media content, as well as the analytics to track social media activity.
Keeping up with all the new connection tools, however, can be a lot of work, so here’s a tip. Follow the crowd. The most populated social media job sites will lead to the best social connection tools.
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I have made a lot of social connection on Naymz. I can easily manage my other social connections from one central spot. The ability to manage my online reputation via the reputation score is invaluable. LinkedIn now provides Online Reputation Management (ORM) tools. I am recommending ORM tools to my job seeking clients.
I prefer the larger professional community on LinkedIn — at 50 million or so, it is about 50 times the size of Naymz — and the large community of human resource groups. The idea of somebody anonymously rating my reputation on Naymz has no real value. A so-so recommendation from a ‘real’ professional is of more value than a glowing recommendation from an invisible person.
Joining numerous social networks seems more like a waste of time – they all seem to be alike but at the same time there are key differences. And sometimes you find yourself waisting a lot of time and getting 0 results… You really need to grasp into this before starting it.
Naymz is free to make connections and I think will quickly grow to the size of LinkedIn. LinkedIn was an originator in this space but it pay-for-services model is not current with the free social networking tools offered through Naymz, Facebook, Twitter and others.
Naymz identification verification and background check does lend credibility to the reputational scores. On the other social networking sites, any imposter can sign up and rate you. You could create 10 imposters and give yourself a glowing review.