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Enhance Your Job Search Through Infographic Resumes and Your Personal Brand

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My colleagues and I advise you (in most cases) to stay at your current job until you find a desired career. Well, my friend and sometimes co-host Keith Townsend (@VirtualizedGeek) broke the social rules. He announced his departure from his job at a Big four company for an unknown destiny.

Hannah Morgan (@careersherpa) is back to talk about her new book, “The Infographic Resume: How to Create a Visual Portfolio that Showcases Your Skills and Lands the Job.”

Welcome back to the podcast. I’d love to hear what you think about leaving a job before having another. Is that too big of a risk? Would you take the chance? Why or why not?

How about using an resume infographic? Have you tried it? Let me know if you do.

I’d love your feedback in these three ways:

Blog: TheVoiceofJobSeekers.com (Use the send voicemail feature)

Email: [email protected]

Voicemail: 708.365.9822

Hannah is founder of CareerSherpa.net and a career contributor to U.S. News & World Report. Her as mentioned discusses in detail the value of creating and sharing an infographic resume, how to create it, and where you can create one today. Her book is available at bookstores near you, and on Amazon.

Here are the highlights from our conversation:

She interviewed people from different backgrounds such as IT, doctors, educators, and librarians that used the infographic resume and were offered opportunities
These tools will automatically generate an infographic resume based on your LinkedIn profile or entered work history and data:

Kelly & Visual.ly: http://create.visual.ly/kelly/

Pictocv: http://www.pictocv.com/

Re.vu: http://re.vu/

Vizualizie.me: http://vizualize.me/

Since the eye processes images faster than words, so it appeals to the short attention span
Places where an infographic can stand out is your blog, Pinterest, and LinkedIn as well as most social networks
It will have more impact to share it after creating it as well as tagging it with the right keys words for you to be found and indexed by Google

Keith has been writing and tweeting about his leaving his Big 4 job before obtaining another job. Keith has successfully leveraged his blog and social activities to display his knowledge and strengthen his personal brand. So far, the article has been read more than 2,00o times with more than 40 comments.

Here are some of the highlights of our discussion:

Keith is receiving interviews, which is hard to get for anyone, especially for a short period since resigning
Keith stated that influencers are retweeting his content because of the relationships he has nurtured throughout time
He said that he didn’t interview with anyone who doesn’t share the social values as a result of activities
Keith emphasized social networking allows the conversation to get to the point quicker

Melissa Cooley (@thejobquest) and I created a YouTube video on interviewing that I think many will find valuable. This is Melissa’s third appearance on the show. The two shows that we’ve done together are the most downloaded shows thus far. I would encourage you to go listen to both.

In this short segment (we have a full 23-minute conversation on YouTube), we banter about what you shouldn’t say in an interview. Many of them are obvious such as, cursing, bad grammar, or using big words that seem awkward and out of place. There is insight that Melissa provides in how it comes across when or if you do.

Please subscribe to the podcast through any podcast directory, but I’d love for you to leave an iTunes review. That is the largest directory and hopefully I have served you well for you to leave positive feedback.

by Mark Anthony Dyson

This Staffing Firm Includes the LGBT Community with Tonie Snell

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925 Hire, LLC, a company founded by Tonie Snell, is an all inclusive staffing firm to help job seekers from all walks of life. Although Tonie is part of the LGBT community. She desires to build a diversestaffing company accessible to anyone in all states. She also wants former incarcerated men and women to have access to gainful employment as everyone else does.

I invite your feedback on this episode, and any episode:

Voicemail: 708.365.9822

email: [email protected]

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Tonie Snell, a recruiter for more than 15 years, started her company in 2010. As a result of a discouraging conversation she had with a peer, she decided to be a solution as an inclusive supplier of diversity (listen to the story at around 3:00).

She wanted form a company where LGBT candidates (or anyone else) can feel free to be “…their authentic self.” Since that time, her cloud-based company has a staffing presence in most states. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies that have contacted her for staffing help.

Here are some highlights from our conversation:

3:55 Tonie says that people are still intrigued, but assures them that they are no different than any of the familiar staffing firms

4:50 Tonie said that she had turned away companies that do not allow LGBT candidates to be their authentic self in a safe working environment.

5:30 She helps corporate clients to see that in order to compete globally that their talent is their brand. The LGBT believes in brand loyalty and will reciprocate if shown loyalty.

7:00 925Hire is an LGBT certified company, and she has been talking with other companies to bring about awareness.

17:30 Tonie stated that she intentionally created a cloud-based company so that her recruiters will stay grounded to build one-to-one relationships with potential clients. She emphasized that relationship building is the key to success.

If you want to subscribe to our iTunes feed, and if you enjoy the show, please write a review for us about this interview.

What questions would you have asked? What would you like to know? Let me know what you think?

by Mark Anthony Dyson

A World Gone Social with Ted Coiné and Mark Babbitt

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If you have not engaged in the “social” part of social media, you miss opportunities beyond money. Whether you like it or not, small business or large, employed or unemployed, you must compete to survive or thrive. Large brands, small business, and people in your network are looking for you to add your voice.

A World Gone Social authors, Ted Coiné (@TedCoine) and Mark Babbitt (@MarkSBabbitt) are my guests for this episode. Leave a comment on the blog OR a review of the episode in iTunes about what you liked about the interview, and you can qualify for a FREE copy of their book.

Of courseyou are always invited to leave me feedback about the show. So, here is where you can leave it:

Voicemail: 708.365.9822

email: [email protected]

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Ted Coiné (@tedcoine) is the co-founder of Switch and Shift, 3-Time CEO, and you may have seen him on top Influencers lists from the Huffington Post and Forbes.

Mark Babbitt is the CEO of You Tern, President of Switch and Shift, and a Forbes and Mashable top website for your Career.

Both are authors of the new book, A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive. Thanks to AMACOMbooks for the review and giveaway copies. This partnership has been a pleasant three years and counting.

Here are a few of the highlights of our conversation

The democratization of our society has afforded for everyone to be involved. The more social, the more we become the media with something to say. We all have the opportunity to be heard.
Stop broadcasting and start interacting whether a large brand or job seeker. In the book, brands that “nail it” are highlighted. Companies need to look at who have they talked to on a given.
Establish what your value and expertise. Once you build a brand (large or individual), you must have social proof. You must be engaged within your brand. Stop talking and start proving.
Social journey meaning learning along the way, with mistakes, and faux pas pass with time. Start building your social presence long before you need it.
If we are lacking skills, we can learn and build those skills with online tools. You can master them in a short period of time.
It is a “we” centered, but not to be overemphasized. The “me” can’t be lost in personal branding, so your individual accomplishments must be highlighted.

I will be giving away a copy Ted’s and Mark’s book. You can participate in three ways:

Comment on the page of the blog where the audio of this conversation is presented
Leave a review of the show on the iTunes page of what you liked about the conversation on the page
Leave a comment on the YouTube page using your Google plus account about what you liked about our conversation

I will announce the winner on Friday on our Facebook page! Good luck.

The entire interview is almost 30 minutes long, and you can view the YouTube version here.