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• Win a Trip to Orlando by Joining B4J Mobile Club
• Crowdsourcing the Job Search with Social Media
• Network TV Drama & the Little White Lies in the Workplace

Win a Trip to Orlando by Joining B4J Mobile Club Posted: 11 Jul 2011 03:49 PM PDT As I’m adapting to the different technologies and tools, I’m particularly intrigued and interested in the mobile communication side.  It’s because of that I’m officially launching the mobile side of Blogging4Jobs. Readers can opt into receive mobile alerts via text right to their mobile phones.  Initially, I will be sharing the top blog of the week from my site in addition to cool prizes and promotions that I have.  Ideally, you would receive no more than 2-4 messages per week and have the ability to opt out at any time. As I head to BlogHer in early August, I’m excited to give my readers some amazing opportunities as VIP mobile members.  For example, I get a lot of book promotions, prizes, gift certificates, and other items that I can offer my readers before it hits the blog.  The mobile club will have first dibs.  Plus, they get the top blog content every single week straight to their phones. To kick start the B4J mobile club, I’m giving away a 5 day 4 night stay at the Wyndham Bonnett Creek Resort inside Disney World grounds.  The suite has two rooms, a full kitchen, two bathrooms, and laundry amenities inside the suite.  I love the grounds and stayed there last just before Ryleigh was born in 2008.  (You will love it!)  Additionally, I’m giving the lucky winner a $500 travel voucher to get you there. All you have to do is text 55678 and b4j to be entered to win.  I’ll be drawing one lucky winner just after the contest ends on August 15th.  Total prize package is easily worth $2,800.  The suite sleeps 4-6 comfortably. I’m also offering a special incentive to the person who shares this blog post and contest on Twitter.  So please share and away and thanks for reading and being a part of Blogging4Jobs. Learn more about the Blogging4Jobs Mobile Club and don’t forget to enter yourself a chance to win by texting 55678 to b4j. Photo Credit Undercover Tourist & Zazzle.

Crowdsourcing the Job Search with Social Media Posted: 11 Jul 2011 12:43 PM PDT While playing around on Google+ today I saw a post by Chris Brogan.  Because of the sheer volume of followers I have in my own tweet stream, I’m sad to admit that I miss out on some of Chris’s insights.  But thankfully for Google+ and Chris’s post, I saw this great video and blog post from DJ Waldow (@djwaldow) and his Job Search Social Media Experiment, titled #projectawesome.  It’s right up my alley, and I felt compelled to share. You see DJ was laid off from his marketing and community job at Blue Sky Factory on July 1st, 2011.  Like most people when they receive news like this they have a choice, either do something or do nothing.  DJ chose the former.  He used his contacts and relationships to create a 4 minute video testimonial that he has posted on his blog as well as youtube from some of the most influential online marketers and social media thinkers.  DJ is being very open with his job search and relying on testimonials and crowd sourcing techniques to fuel interest from employers and elevate his job search. I like it. Creative job search tactics have gotten good press since the recession in 2008.  I’ve seen more stories on guys who have used billboards, sandwich boards, and even sell themselves  on e-bay to find work.  DJ’s approach fits his industry (marketing and social media), demonstrates his expertise and credibility not just because of the testimonials but because of the quality of edited video which he put together. Included in his blog post are different mediums of his resume to appeal to different audiences, while elevating his blog post at the top of search engines — youtube and slideshare. The concept of crowd sourcing your resume is one that I like.  It’s smart.  It bypasses the traditional long and often frustrating job search and interview evaluation process.  His hope is to reach a company or industry influencer without using an applicant tracking system or working with the first point of contact usually the HR professional or recruiter. Early case studies like this are interesting because they make use of social media and the micro celebrity in a new and interesting way.  The stigma that is sometimes still associated with being laid off by prospective employers is lessened because he is able to demonstrate his own skills in action as a online and social media marketer. Question is how can you use social media to elevate your job search?  Can crowdsourcing tactics help or hurt your job search outside of the social media and marketing industries?  And is being completely transparent a strategy you’re worth gambling with? Photo Credit Law Octopus.

Network TV Drama & the Little White Lies in the Workplace Posted: 11 Jul 2011 05:43 AM PDT The workplace is a culture, a human echo system filled with those doing, avoiding, and lying.  It's a veritable melting pot filled with drama, entertainment, gossip and despair.  Your office serves as the set and stage for the workplace daytime soap opera or evening network drama.  And if you have multiple locations, consider each one an individual show on the same television network.  Sometimes the devious, interesting, or most popular characters make multiple appearances.  Yes, your company is like CBS with each location serving up the drama and excitement that is Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice.  With your management, leadership, and HR teams playing a role or running referee. Like any good drama television or your workplace, it's the little white lies that serve up the fun.  And by fun I mean employment investigations, sexual harassment scenarios, and broken promises.  Yes, these are the Days of Our Lives. The little white lies in the workplace are the host of any good workplace drama.  Cheating spouses, thieving co-workers, and lying bosses.  You know the drill, but for most of us we like to think we're good and honest employees.  Doing an honest days work for an honest day's pay.  And our boss's tend to agree especially when employee performance review time looms near.  Let the little white lie jamboree begin. A 2006 Study by Friends Provident found that 80% of those surveyed admitted to telling white lies and 2/3 of those lies happening to be dispensed while in the office.  Makes me wonder how many of those white lies surfaced during performance review time. Interestingly enough a 2011 study by Globoforce Workforce Mood Tracker, 51% of employee reviews are useless.  Today’s workforce thinks employee performance reviews are not an accurate appraisal of their work.  Making your manager’s white lie justified 51% of the time because you think those reviews are useless anyway. It's during the mid-year and annual employee performance review time where the real drama transpires.  Managers buzzword bingo our reviews to death and avoid confrontation devaluing what the actual employee review process was intended for.  These little white lies do more than give our employees a false sense of hope but also aid in falsely inflating employee egos while making it increasingly difficult for HR professionals and attorneys to recommend that a manager or company leader move to terminate an employee for unsatisfactory work performance.  These are the white lies that keep on giving and often to the tone of a six-figure settlement. Photo Credit Freelance Folder.

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