Ed Blust

About Ed Blust

Ed is the Chief Marketing Officer of Adecco Group North America. He's been with Adecco Group in various executive roles since 1994. He's a native New Yorker living in Manhattan and loves the Mets, Jets, Knicks, Rangers and Rutgers. You can follow his misery at twitter.com/edblust .

Winner of the Social Media Career Tips Comment Contest

May 31, 2012 By

Believe it or not, it has been 30 days since our social media tips comment contest started! We’d like to send a big thank you out to everyone who submitted a suggestion and offer our congratulations to Christi Karvasek!

Christi, you’ve just won yourself a $25 Dunkin’ Donuts gift card–enjoy! Someone from our team will follow up with you to coordinate the delivery.

Check out Christi’s innovative idea below and for more ideas on how to get social with your career read (or reread!) the original post.

Christi’s how-to for making an online introduction:
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5 ways to start getting social with your career

April 30, 2012 By

It’s surprising to me how many people have embraced social networks for personal use, but don’t really use social to enhance their careers or find a new job. Everyone can benefit from using social media, no matter what you do for a living. And having a Linkedin profile, while extremely important, is not enough.

A survey by Jobvite found that 89% of companies use social media to recruit employees. The survey also found that organizations’ recruiting departments are using multiple social networks to engage potential new hires, with LinkedIn leading in usage (89%), followed by Facebook (55%) and Twitter (47%). Forty percent of companies surveyed use all three top networks–LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter–as part of their recruitment process. So if you want to be seen by recruiters and employers (current and future), and be perceived as an expert and influencer in your industry or craft, you must start taking social seriously.

Here are 5 ways you can use social networks to enhance your career and reputation, and improve your job search strategy:
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