3 New Media Tools To Add Reason In A Tough MBA Recruiting Season
Posted on 01. Sep, 2008 by Jared Degnan in B-School, Career Management, Featured, Interviewing
It’s safe to say that there isn’t a single one of my MBA cohorts at Owen that expect an easy road this year when it comes to landing full-time offers. In fact, most of us agree its going to take us pulling out all the stops to really get things going in our job hunt.
Though I typically reserve these types of posts for people more dedicated to career management than I – see Susan Strayer or Jason Alba – here are my personal picks for the three best ways to use new media tools in your job hunt.
- Indeed.com: Indeed brings the power of aggregation and RSS feeds to the job search process. This comes in handy when you’re trying to sift through the jungle of job search sites and company job listings for something very specific – like a job ripe for a newly minted MBA.My advice is find out the job titles you want to go after and input them in a search string, along with any geographic preferences. Once it runs, save the RSS feed that it outputs in your RSS reader. This way, you can actively deploy your resume as soon as new jobs are posted and increase your chance of getting that first interview.
- LinkedIn: Research is really one of the top make-it or break-it factors in that first interviews. That being said, no site enables you to get degree of detail on companies and your potential interviewers like LinkedIn does.Jason Alba is probably the foremost authority on LinkedIn and when I met him at a presentation at Owen a week or so ago, he pointed out that a LinkedIn profile, if managed correctly, can also really help marketing, business development and general management MBAs position themselves for the hundreds of recruiters that use it to source potential candidates.
- Professional Portfolio Sites: For marketing MBAs as well as any other MBA that has some sort of tangible deliverable they might be able to show off, having a place to put it is potentially huge. In fact, I have spent a ton of time combing through my work and getting permission from my previous employers.Using mine as an example (http://portfolio.jareddegnan.com) you can see how it might work.Now, I have to admit that this is my own tactic and I am still working on how to best deploy it but you can see for yourself how it might be able to help create a better picture of what you’re capable of.
Job searches can be one of the most stressful aspects of an MBA experience. Using these new media tools are just a few ways I have found that can help you make the best of your time and maximize your opportunities.
If you have more that you want to suggest – let’s get a list started on the comments section!
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