Social Media Helps Land Another Job
Friday, August 15th, 2008I’m very happy to share with everyone here in Asia that Hutch Carpenter got a job at Connectbeam via social media. I’m not going to rehash the whole story because I think he tells it better on his blog, but I just want to share how amazed I am that a job could be the end result of a comment going:
Hutch:
Would love to connect with you and discuss some ideas.
When did we ever have a world like this? Where blogging and leaving a comment could result in a hiring opportunity. Utterly amazing. I’d also like to point out that Hutch’s employer had a Google Alerts feed for “enterprise 2.0″, which is what Hutch is into, further emphasising the importance of tagging, and making sure you’re deeply associated with what you blog about/your passion is.
I’ve blogged about Hutch previously in a “Blogs worth reading” segment, feel free to check that out as well a a previous story on a student getting employed via Twitter or my own experience with getting employed via social media.
Will employment opportunities like these start to exist in Asia? Or do they sound like wishful delusions right now? Probably somewhere in the middle. I’m going to say in Singapore particularly, just blogging or being online is not going to work. You’d probably need to meet people who will then refer you to someone else. I think as management starts to get more sophisticated and spend more time getting used to this new digital world, the opportunities will start to increase. So start working on it now, just don’t expect instant results.
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