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Using Social Media to Find a Job: PowerPoint Slides from Beverly Macy’s Job Fair Presentation

Dustin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:05:21 +0000

At our June job fair, Beverly Macy gave a great presentation on how to use Social Networking to help you find a job. We promised we would put the slides online. Well, here they are. You can browse through the gallery below to see each slide.

You may also download a PDF of all 12 slides here (1.4 MB, PDF).

Meet Beverly Macy, Social Media Guru

Catherine — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:08:36 +0000

BEVERLY MACY is the reason Working World is now blogging, twittering and linking. She teaches a class at UCLA that I took last fall that inspired me to dive into the space. Since then we’ve found social media is a useful way to connect with our readers and advertisers. We had the pleasure of having Beverly Macy speak at our June job fair on “Using Social Media to find a Job.” Follow Beverly on Twitter @BeverlyMacy or sign up for her excellent class at UCLA.

The One Thing That Will Get You the Job

Catherine — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:53:48 +0000

This short video answers the age-old question: What is the magical one thing that employers are looking for? Brad Bucklin is a regular speaker at Working World Job Fairs.

New Shirts Before the Next Job Fair?

Catherine — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:58:22 +0000

Dustin wears the classic "staff" design

We had a “company meeting” to deconstruct the last job fair and plan the next one. “Company meeting” is in quotation marks because this means just 10 people, although Danny wasn’t there, Beth was in the Red Room working on editorial and tasked with answering the phone, and Jill was in the meeting but looked a little distracted. Then she went to the bathroom and never came back. Suspicious cooincidence? You decide.

We decided that we all like the new venue at the Renaissance. Nobody complained about parking, vendors like the lunch and Brad’s seminar was well attended. For the next Job Fair the big change is going from four hours to three. Instead of running from 12-4 the event will now be 12-3. This is plenty of time. After three hours our vendors get tired and start packing up to go home.

As for new shirts, we decided that with the economy the way it is we don’t want to incur more expense. The problem with the red shirts is that we only have the XXL size left which dwarfs most of us. The shirts are so old that they’re been through the wash too many times and now look pink instead of red. Next week Job Fair updates and vendors will be added regularly here.