Today's google search of you is now your resume for an employer. Your identity, pictures, words, ideas and expression can be accessed online with a simple click of the button. Employers are certain to google you when considering an interview. Through Facebook, You Tube, Twitter and any other social media tools, your web presence is their quick access to your character, activities and friends.
As technology progresses, all of us will be quickly identified by our online "word cloud". This is critical for you to understand.
A word cloud is a constellation of descriptors gleaned from your presence on the web through social media.
My word cloud contains these hash tags: #career #interviews #job #resume #workforcedevelopment #counselor #life #careercounselor #coach #blogger #entreprenuer #trainer #author.
What's in yours?
Finding the word cloud of your resume
Using wordle as an integral part of your word cloud identity is a key to your success. To begin, copy and paste the text of your most current resume into wordle and let it give you a word cloud of your skills. What words appear? What words are missing? This tool can harness your talent and help you articulate what you bring to an employer. Hash tags (descriptive words that start with #) are going to only increase in defining your online presence.
Social media and the power of it is here to stay. Make certain you know how to use it wisely. The absolute worse than you can do is ignore it.
As technology progresses, all of us will be quickly identified by our online "word cloud". This is critical for you to understand.
A word cloud is a constellation of descriptors gleaned from your presence on the web through social media.
My word cloud contains these hash tags: #career #interviews #job #resume #workforcedevelopment #counselor #life #careercounselor #coach #blogger #entreprenuer #trainer #author.
What's in yours?
Finding the word cloud of your resume
Using wordle as an integral part of your word cloud identity is a key to your success. To begin, copy and paste the text of your most current resume into wordle and let it give you a word cloud of your skills. What words appear? What words are missing? This tool can harness your talent and help you articulate what you bring to an employer. Hash tags (descriptive words that start with #) are going to only increase in defining your online presence.
Social media and the power of it is here to stay. Make certain you know how to use it wisely. The absolute worse than you can do is ignore it.
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