Use Social Media to get ahead in your career, life and business.
The world has changed from when I started work in the 1990s. Social media has transformed the way that people do business, conduct their relationships, and has helped change the modern world. Its ills are well-known and publicised. This book is about the positive side of social media. It is an exploration of how people have used social media to get ahead in their lives.
Social Media is changing the way people do business; it’s changing the world of recruitment and it’s changing how we find love.
In the book Social Media Networking, including twenty case studies, Tim Lewis discovers how people are using social media to get ahead in their lives and in their businesses.
A recent US labor report showed that of jobs recruited for in the US, 40% are never advertised and given to someone the recruiter knows, and of the rest of the jobs half are given to someone the recruiter already knows after a recruitment process of interviews. So how do you get the recruiter to know you? Social Media is one new way that people are using.
On a wider level, people are finding ideal romantic partners from connections initially made on social media.
Many journalists use social media to find people to be interviewed about news stories giving free publicity to those businesses that are aware of this.
Learning how to make connections on social media opens up a whole new world of opportunities for networking to make powerful connections to supercharge your business and your personal life.
