July and August are special months for eSight NetWork
News (eNN) subscribers.
This week, we're introducing a special interactive
project for sharing ideas this summer about how you,
as a job seeker with a visual impairment, can
effectively use social media for networking so you can
gain meaningful employment.
During the next two months, eSight will facilitate a
LinkedIn group, "Using Social Media Networking as a
Job Search Tool."
The purpose: to encourage HR professionals and hiring
managers in the U.S. to share ideas about how job
seekers with visual impairments can effectively use
social media for their job searches so employers have
access to the best available talent, regardless of
disability.
Also, through Twitter, career counselors who coach
visually impaired job seekers throughout the U.S. will
share ideas about how these tips from employers can
best be applied in the real world.
And, you, as an eNN reader, will be able to chime in to
this conversation, too. How?
All you have to do is follow the links below and add
your thoughts to this week's discussion on the eSight
Networking Forum.
Over the course of the summer, you'll be able to hear what hiring
managers are saying about how to find a job in today's
market using social media -- and quickly add your own
comments about what you think works and does not work
in searching for a job online.
Here's how you'll benefit by joining your fellow
eSight members in following this discussion:
One thing I can promise you. Stick with us over the
next eight weeks, and you'll look at job hunting in a
whole new light.
eSight will highlight the key thoughts which come out
of these conversations in each week's issue of eNN.
And, we'll use the eSight Networking Forum to tie down
some of the most important issues we may have with
social media as a job hunting tool from a visual
impairment standpoint.
We'll also translate the insight generated by you,
your fellow eSight members, career counselors and
employers into a series of free articles, white papers
and teleseminars about "Essential Job Search Tactics,"
which will become available on eSight over the next
few months.
So, before you join Twitter or publish your profile on
LinkedIn, please take this first step. Think about
what you want an employer to know about you.
For background, read "Essential Career Marketing
Tactic: Self-presentation" at
http://www.esight.org/view.cfm?x=905
Then, on the eSight Networking Forum, give us your
thoughts about this question:
How do you transform your old elevator pitch into
profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc. so
recruiters get an accurate picture of what you have
to offer a prospective employer?
Please share your thoughts by posting them at
http://www.esight.org/link.cfm?n=1606
Read all the postings from eSight members at
http://www.esight.org/link.cfm?n=1607
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Liz Seger
Facilitator
eSight Careers Network(tm)
http://www.esight.org/
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