Alert
You stay alert on many levels. Are there vacancies in my LinkedIn network or LinkedIn groups? Have you already created a search in Hootsuite for vacancies in your field? Do you know what the largest sites are in the Netherlands now? And what are the latest developments? The A of Alert is the second A. So pay attention! An innately curious nature helps here. If you don't have that nature, then you should consider alertness as work. Spend an hour a week on new developments, try out new sites, tap into new networks. Do everything you can to be found for your dream job.
Ambassadors
A very important A is the A of Ambassadors. They make your life easy. Your ambassadors will sell you. They know how good you list to data are and can easily tell their network. Did they give you a compliment? Then immediately ask them to post that compliment on LinkedIn. There is a very big chance that they will do that for you, perhaps with even nicer words. Without ambassadors, you have far too much to do yourself. You really need them. Conversely: for whom can you be an ambassador? Be generous with compliments yourself.
Attention
Seize your opportunities! If there are opportunities to get in touch with companies or people, seize them. Follow them on Twitter, read the blogs. Also make contact by asking questions, testing ideas. Attract attention by creating virtual CVs on sites like about.me and vizify.com . Do you absolutely have to have a CV? Then create a CV with a different, more visual layout . Pay attention to your network. Sometimes that means asking how the dog, mother, daughter, flu is doing. By paying attention you build social capital and a higher likeability factor. And believe me, you want that. Otherwise you will miss theboatbus.
Attractive
They should be queuing up for you! With sleeping bags outside your door to hire you first. Are they not there yet? Then you are not attractive enough online. Make sure you invest in your network, approach them positively, be interested, find common networks and give a lot of information about yourself. The information you share should be of value to your followers. You can measure that with, among other things, a social media dashboard such as Hootsuite.com .
There is also attractive and relevant information about you to be found via Google. The fastest way to influence that positively is by using social media such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, a blog and Facebook.
Every detail counts
Everything I have mentioned above is incredibly obvious to me. It is incomprehensible to me that it still goes wrong so often or that people do not want to start at all. Social media. For me it is not a luxury, not a hype. It is present in this changing world. You need social media to achieve what you want to achieve.
Don't expect quick wins. It's important that your online personality builds his or her life. Stay focused when deploying your resources. What do you want to achieve, who do you want to reach? What do you want readers to know about you? Where does your expertise lie? If you invest a lot of time in a hobby, it's also useful to talk about it online or mention it. People like to look for common factors. And suppose you like to ride horses and the hiring manager also has a horse? Then you'll be invited more quickly and you'll immediately have a topic of conversation.