Comments on: How You Can Help JobSeekers Using Twitter.

By: wwds

wwds — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:37:20 +0000

Thanks Laurie…the intent, of course, was to familiarize folks with the power of LINKUP.com as a job search tool. I hope you give us some feedback. best wishes…

By: Laurie Berenson

Laurie Berenson — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:35:10 +0000

I missed the contest, but this is nonetheless a great idea and I will do add it to my Twitter activity.

By: wwds

wwds — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:58:48 +0000

jacqui and Marianna…thanks for playing. Both of you are exactly right…the job seeker needs to understand a variety of tools in order to make the job search more robust and helpful. It is time for the job seeker to make LINKUP their first stop, don’t you think.
And Marianna…I wonder about the future too…we are seeing the result of the lack of loyalty now in the workplace, I wonder what will happen over the next decade or so as a result of this era.
Something to study perhaps?

By: Marianna

Marianna — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:24:45 +0000

“At worst, he or she is demoralized, with his self-confidence and self-worth permanently affected. No one understands yet the long term impact of a workforce that approaches their future work in such a negative manner.”

This is so true. Unemployment creates stress which affects one’s emotional, mental & physical health. The side-effects from those negative thoughts & emotions (worry, fear, anger, loneliness, depression) self-perpetuate.

This makes it exceedingly difficult to present one’s best “face” when searching for work.

It is so important to transform those stress-producing thoughts and emotions to ones that allow you to minimise the damage caused by the cascade of 1400 physical and chemical changes when one is under stress.

Well done, G.L.! You’ve got a good heart!

By: Richard Rezek

Richard Rezek — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:26:27 +0000

I wrote and posted an article titled, “You Can Help a Job Seeker” Check it out at: http://hubpages.com/hub/You-Can-Help-a-Job-Seeker

It is more of a reaction to your second paragraph than the contest, but if helps someone with what to do, then great.

By: What Would Dad Say » Peg is the Interim Winner, But There’s Still Time

Fri, 01 May 2009 14:47:55 +0000

[...] along to even more followers. Thanks, Peg. She is the INTERIM WINNER of the Twitter-Job contest, announced here, which is asking twitterers to creatively use LINKUP to conduct some original job searches and then [...]

By: Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, MRW

Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, MRW — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:14:44 +0000

Hey GL – I’ve jumped aboard your creative game. Did a LinkUp search for Central Intelligence jobs in the Tropics (FL) and netted 47 results! This is a good exercise — a kind of puzzle, sifting/sorting, then snapping together links to reveal a new job-search picture.

Looking forward to experimenting with a host of puzzles – helping me to help my job seeker client in this New Economy where creativity, tenacity, A-player mentality (everyone can be an A-player somewhere – just need to dig and drill for that match).are essential.

Jacqui – Career Strategist and Writer

By: wwds

wwds — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:30:38 +0000

Clare…not sure, there are some very creative folks on this side of the pond.
CrypticFragment..Have fun…it is a great way for job seekers to get some practice at forming their job descriptions with better word combinations. Thanks for playing…the more the merrier…and the more people we can help find jobs.

By: CrypticFragment

CrypticFragment — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:20:41 +0000

I’ll give it a shot…the person I help just may even be me!

By: John Hazard

John Hazard — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:46:49 +0000

Thanks for the great advice, Hoffman!
http://www.career-line.com/job-search/pay-it-forward-broadcast-available-jobs-postings/