As a blogger who loves to write, I keep my eyes open for opportunities. When Laura DeCarlo, Executive Director of Career Directors International (CDI) advised us to help her make the topic of Resume Writing a permanent topic at Business Week’s Business Exchange, I went over and contributed some of my posts to the site. CDI and Laura have been pioneers in continuing to grow educational opportunities for not only career marketing professionals like myself but also for job seekers. With this wider platform, the career community can reach and educate more job seekers.
This assignment from Laura, however, turned into a very interesting benefit for me too. What I found was an avenue to share my posts with a wider audience. I get complacent and behind and forget to add my new posts to this platform but when I do, things change. You can see in the chart at the left, the many views that came from Business Week.
Today, for the second time since I started putting my posts on the Business Exchange, I am their featured user. (See below.) The first time was when I was in Baltimore at the Career Thought Leaders conference in March. I wasn’t able to see what was going on at the time because I didn’t have access during the day to wifi and I didn’t have a Smart Phone. But I did notice new people adding themselves to my network. I share not only my own posts but others in the career industry and in other fields as well. If I think that business professionals will benefit from posts I read, I share them on the platform just as I RT other people’s posts on Twitter and share them on Facebook.
As a job seeker in today’s world, there are more opportunities than ever to use the tools available and to find new tools to network both online and in real life (IRL). Sometimes we think that it is one more thing and we don’t want to exert any additional effort to find that new position. All of my career industry organizations require an investment on my part but because of that investment, I benefit from the expert advice and direction I get from the leaders in the industry.
When you are struggling with a job search, you need to have experts on your side to help you find the tools you need to make your job search shorter. Fortunately, you have more resources than ever to help you change careers or end your job search.