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Most Job Seekers Fail to Employ Social Media

Wake up, job seekers. Sixty percent of you aren’t using social media in your quest to land a position, according to MicroTrain, a professional training and job services company.

That means the 40 percent of job hunters who are using social media—sites like LinkedIn and Twitter—hold a decided advantage over their behind-the-times counterparts. As James Ellis, director of professional services at MicroTrain, pointed out, many job postings on Twitter and LinkedIn never appear anywhere else.

Social media specialist and author Dan Schwabel noted recently that the old approach to finding a job—“developing a resume and cover letter, locating jobs on and submitting your resume to corporate sites and job banks, and crossing your fingers in hopes of receiving a call from a hiring manager—is, for the most part, a thing of the past.”

So, what’s the “thing” of the present and future? Certainly, nothing can replace job fairs, in-person networking and other traditional job-hunting tools. But social media definitely should be in your toolbox. As MicroTrain emphasizes, adopting social media tools helps build your personal brand.

What can you do to establish or enhance your social media presence?

  • Create a profile on LinkedIn if you’ve haven’t already. If you already have a profile on the site, make sure it’s updated. Also, sign up for LinkedIn groups in your chosen field.
  • Be active on Twitter. Follow folks from your targeted industry and engage them in online conversation. Don’t simply send tweets about your job search.
  • Set up an online resume. Free sites such as Emurse.com and Weebly.com can help you accomplish this.
  • Launch a blog through a platform like WordPress.org or Blogger.com. Ideally, your blog should concentrate on something related to your career. If you’re pursuing a job in health care, it may not do you much good to blog about sailing.

 

Holly Paul, U.S. recruiting leader at accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, recently told Medill News Service: “Social media is a great way to learn about different employers as well as build professional networks that will help create opportunities and open doors.”

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There’s an invasion coming. In fact, it’s already under way, and you probably haven’t already realized that you’re about to be taken over. That’s right – Generation Y has entered the workforce (as anemic as it currently is), and is bound to become the dominant part of your enterprise within the next 10-15 years. What does this mean for your organization? How are the needs of Gen Y different from that of existing markets? And why does this have anything to do with Enterprise IT? The answers are below, but rest assured, the emergence of Millennials in the workforce is every bit a crisis point for your IT planning as dealing with the downfall of EA Frameworks and Cyberwarfare, albeit with most likely a positive ending.

What makes Gen Y different?

Wikipedia’s Generation Y entry provides some needed detail on what exactly we’re dealing with here:

Generation Y, also known as the Millennial Generation, Generation Next or Net Generation, describes the demographic cohort following Generation X. Its members are often referred to as Millennials or Echo Boomers…commentators have used birth dates ranging somewhere from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s, but most agree on birth dates between 1982 and 1995. Members of this generation are called Echo Boomers, due to the significant increase in birth rates between 1982–1995, and because most of them are children of baby boomers. The term Generation Y first appeared in an August 1993 Ad Age editorial to describe teenagers of the day.

Ok, so they’re baby boomer spawn. Big deal? Well, not necessarily. Without exception, Gen Y’ers (let’s use the term Millennials from here on to simplify the writing) have grown up entirely in the information age. They don’t know a world without computers, cell phones, and MTV. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were already fighting by the time they were born, and the term minicomputer never even entered their lexicon.  But what makes the Millennials most relevant for the enterprise is that their experience of IT is primarily with the vast rate of change happening on the consumer side, rather than in the enterprise.

It’s not just an inherent technical fluency that separates Millennials from their peers. Milennials emerged in a world where instant communication in the form of email, texting, instant messaging, social networks, online gaming, virtual worlds like World of Warcraft and Second Life, and online sharing platforms such as YouTube were the norm. Because much of their lives were conducted in the public sphere, the notion of personal privacy has eroded. Will Millennials have the same respect for corporate information as that of their less publicly verbose colleagues?

Likewise, Millennials leverage the power of these mass communication and sharing platforms to revolutionize the way marketing and information sharing is done. Viral marketing, flash mobbing, internet memes, and spontaneous meetups are not only the new social cliques and in-culture of the generation, but the primary way trends are shaped.

This is all backed up by research. In a seminal report by Junco and Mastrodicasa, they cited the following results of a survey of the Millennial group:

College students, born between 1982-2003, used technology at higher rates than people from other generations. In their survey, they found that 97% of these students owned a computer, 94% owned a cell phone, and 56% owned a MP3 player. They also found that students spoke with their parents an average of 1.5 times a day about a wide range of topics. Other findings in the Junco and Mastrodicasa survey revealed 76% of students used instant messaging, and 92% of those reported multitasking while IMing.

But the far biggest impact on the emergence of Millennials in the workforce is that their expectations of what enterprise IT can do for them and the company is very different than their older peers. In the eyes of Millennials, they can get sophisticated IT stuff done without the IT department — in fact, many already have. So enterprise IT departments: prepare to win the hearts and minds of the Millennials lest they find competition for your services.

How will this impact Enterprise IT?

Millennials see IT as a tool to get things done. For them, however, they have a choice between using the tools of their daily lives (mobile devices, online applications, social networks) or the tools of their business lives (what we currently consider to be enterprise IT). As such, organizations need to understand the core needs of this critical user group:

  • Physical boundaries no longer exist – The fact that enterprise systems and data are behind a firewall are of little concern to folks who are very used to Cloud and SaaS-based system, mobile applications, and virtualization writ large. Location agnosticism is a must for future enterprise IT systems. This need is echoed in the Global Cubicle Supertrend, which forms a core part of ZapThink’s 2020 Vision of Enterprise IT. The Global Cubicle represents that realization that the enterprise is no longer confined to the physical boundaries of the office, and all the implications this has on IT and governance.
  • Mobile as a first-class participant – The days of treating mobile apps as a red-headed stepchild or third-class citizen in the enterprise IT landscape are over. There are far more reasons to make enterprise capabilities available inherently on mobile apps than not. Especially when your users spend more time on mobile systems than they do on the ones the enterprise IT department creates.
  • The Need for Immediacy – The “now” generation wants instant access to data and functionality. And they want it in a consistent manner regardless of the device they use or location they are at.
  • The Era of Function over Form is Over – The market has already proven that functionally equivalent (or even functionally poorer) applications with superior user experiences prevail over functionally superior, but user experience poor applications. Sound familiar? Well it should – most enterprise IT applications have utterly appalling user interfaces that are only modest improvements from the 1970s green screen era. Web based applications are 1990s hold-overs. It’s time to rethink the enterprise app.

How can enterprise IT address these needs? Fortunately, both the technology and know-how exist to solve these problems. As is often the case, the solution is most often design and architecture-centric and less-so technology centric. If someone sells you a Millennial Integration App, you should run quickly in the other direction. Instead, you should adjust your IT development and operations practices to meet the above needs:

  • Provide Immediate Gratification – Provisioning of IT capability has to be as immediate and agile as possible. Data and functionality have to be available and immediate regardless of device or location. The enterprise IT organization has to realize that it is in competition for the hearts and minds of the business users.
  • Design for Location and Device Agnosticism – Design for consistency of experience and action regardless of location and device. This emphasizes truly loosely-coupled Services & SOA design principles. If you haven’t been paying attention to loose coupling for the last 10 years that we’ve been talking about it, you should start now. Designing for loose coupling significantly complicates testing, security, privacy, and governance, but we’ve drilled down on these topics many times before.
  • Create a Compelling User Experience – User experience is no longer a luxury. You are competing with online, social, and mobile experiences. There is increasingly a fuzzy line between business & consumer IT. So, start learning from Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook’s examples and eliminate the Digital Divide.

This sounds like a tall order, but it shouldn’t be anything new for enterprise IT departments that are already looking ahead to the next generation of applications and value creation for the enterprise.

The ZapThink Take

The impact of Millennials entering the workforce becomes a crisis point only if organizations turn a blind eye to the different experiences and needs of this age group. The days of enterprise IT departments having sole control of the pace and scope of IT innovation in the organization are long gone. Millennials already know that they have sophisticated, highly usable, and instant IT capabilities available at their fingertips and online, so why should they be bothered when the comparatively slower and less-sophisticated enterprise IT department can’t get their needs met? A smart enterprise IT department will realize that internal as well as external market forces impact the scope of what they need to get done.

Those that ignore the changing internal dynamics of the workforce will face a crisis point when the new generation takes increasingly more senior management positions. Those that see the emergence of this savvy audience as a good excuse to increase the pace of innovation will not only save their own jobs, but continue to make the enterprise IT department a champion and engine for innovation in the enterprise.

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Competition Doesn’t Exist For Me Because

What is your outlook on competition in life and business?

Competition doesn’t exist for me because…I live in a world of abundance. There will always be enough of everything everywhere for everyone every time.

Competition doesn’t exist for me because…the subconscious mind rejects for itself whatever it despises in others. I wish for others everything I wish for myself. I wish for others the highest level of happiness, success, and prosperity in college, life, and business.

Why? Why not? Besides, if you despise another’s wealth or success or anything he/she has accomplished, you are feeding negative thoughts to your own subconscious, which ultimately leads to the prevention of any wealth, success, or accomplishment you may so desire for yourself. This is not just talk, it’s a proven fact.

Competition doesn’t exist for me because of my mission. My mission is to provide TONS of knowledge and profitable opportunities through a unification of passions and intelligence solely for the advancement, progression, and success of my entire Millennial Generation; and ultimately revolutionize the entire educational system so that happiness and success are commonly achieved, passions are pursued, and poverty is conquered.

So if any other individual is successful and devoted to changing the lives of our Millennial Generation for the better, then my mission is ultimately being fulfilled! If we all took action to the extent of what we are most capable of, my mission would be complete!

Competition doesn’t exist for me because…the only one I compete with, in order to continuously reach unmatched levels of greatness, is with myself! Who better to compete with, than the person who holds you back and pushes you to the top of your success? The only person who has the power to do that is yourself. No one else. NO ONE. The more you think about what you think of yourself, rather than what others think of you (an irrelevant roadblock), the better, happy, and more successful life you will live.

<strong>Competition doesn’t exist for me because</strong>…I love you and live in a world of ultimate unification. Loving others simply means wanting deeply to see the best for others, as you would yourself. Unification of our generation is the key to elevation. No matter what route you take, which venture you pursue, or whatever your beliefs and passions are, unifying for a greater growth for all is always better than struggling to grow individually.

The term ‘self made’ is powerful yet heavily confused. In basketball terminology, let’s say you’re a jump shooter. You decide whether you want to sit on the bench and watch, pass the ball, or take a shot. Once you decide to take the shot, and build up enough courage (through countless practice), you finally shoot. You are the self-made shooter, but ‘people’ are the ‘ACCURACY of the Shot!’ Without that you won’t score no matter how hard you try! Why compete with your accuracy, when you can unify with it and score every time?

Competition doesn’t exist for me because…it promotes keeping up with the Joneses; one of the top key contributors to the prevention of building true wealth, success, or happiness. I once read that, “the fastest way to fail is to try to impress people all the time.” People constantly lose themselves trying to find out how to keep up with others. If you find yourself in this race, get out immediately because you will never be happy no matter how much money you have. Strive for excellence, and do so righteously and for your own preference. ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ is a hell of a drug. Definitely say no to this drug!

Competition doesn’t exist for me because. I don’t want it to exist for you!

I Love And Appreciate Everyone! God Bless!

Stefan G-Prez Johnson is the President and CEO of Graduatirement, LLC, an evolutionary business of success for the entire Millennial Generation, which shows students all around the world how to graduate college and retire professionally simultaneously! His mission is to help everyone, especially Millennials, reach their ultimate individual success, happiness, and prosperity in college, life, and business by providing tons of knowledge and profitable opportunities, and ultimately revolutionize the entire Educational System so that happiness and success are more commonly achieved, passions are pursued, and poverty is conquered. Join the successful movement at The Graduatirement Website Here. We love and appreciate you!

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EPIC JOURNEY: Youth Vote, 2008 and 2010

Political scientists argue about why U.S. voter turnout has been rising. An important part of the story seems to be that today’s under 30s — the so-called Millennial generation — are more politically interested than their predecessors, Generation X.

Millennials take a very different view of politics from older cohorts of Americans. For example, offered a choice between a government that offers higher taxes and more services, or fewer services and lower taxes, older Americans choose the lower-tax alternative.

Sixty-two percent of over 65s prefer the lower tax alternative, as do 58% of voters in the 50-64 group, and 56% of voters aged 30-49.

Under 30s prefer bigger government by a margin of 53-43.

Under 30s are more socially liberal too, and less nationalistic than over 30s.

All these numbers suggest two conclusions:

-Be very careful about projecting forward from the 2010 congressional results to the 2012 presidential vote. These elections almost occur in two different countries.

-Be very careful about assuming that Republican success in 2010 signifies that Republicans have overcome the longer-term problems that I’ve been writing about these past five years. If Republicans cannot connect better to the huge new Millennial generation, next month’s success will only be a happy interval before 2012’s grim challenges.

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Competition Doesn’t Exist For Me Because

What is your outlook on competition in life and business?

Competition doesn’t exist for me because…I live in a world of abundance. There will always be enough of everything everywhere for everyone every time.

Competition doesn’t exist for me because…the subconscious mind rejects for itself whatever it despises in others. I wish for others everything I wish for myself. I wish for others the highest level of happiness, success, and prosperity in college, life, and business.

Why? Why not? Besides, if you despise another’s wealth or success or anything he/she has accomplished, you are feeding negative thoughts to your own subconscious, which ultimately leads to the prevention of any wealth, success, or accomplishment you may so desire for yourself. This is not just talk, it’s a proven fact.

Competition doesn’t exist for me because of my mission. My mission is to provide TONS of knowledge and profitable opportunities through a unification of passions and intelligence solely for the advancement, progression, and success of my entire Millennial Generation; and ultimately revolutionize the entire educational system so that happiness and success are commonly achieved, passions are pursued, and poverty is conquered.

So if any other individual is successful and devoted to changing the lives of our Millennial Generation for the better, then my mission is ultimately being fulfilled! If we all took action to the extent of what we are most capable of, my mission would be complete!

Competition doesn’t exist for me because…the only one I compete with, in order to continuously reach unmatched levels of greatness, is with myself! Who better to compete with, than the person who holds you back and pushes you to the top of your success? The only person who has the power to do that is yourself. No one else. NO ONE. The more you think about what you think of yourself, rather than what others think of you (an irrelevant roadblock), the better, happy, and more successful life you will live.

<strong>Competition doesn’t exist for me because</strong>…I love you and live in a world of ultimate unification. Loving others simply means wanting deeply to see the best for others, as you would yourself. Unification of our generation is the key to elevation. No matter what route you take, which venture you pursue, or whatever your beliefs and passions are, unifying for a greater growth for all is always better than struggling to grow individually.

The term ‘self made’ is powerful yet heavily confused. In basketball terminology, let’s say you’re a jump shooter. You decide whether you want to sit on the bench and watch, pass the ball, or take a shot. Once you decide to take the shot, and build up enough courage (through countless practice), you finally shoot. You are the self-made shooter, but ‘people’ are the ‘ACCURACY of the Shot!’ Without that you won’t score no matter how hard you try! Why compete with your accuracy, when you can unify with it and score every time?

Competition doesn’t exist for me because…it promotes keeping up with the Joneses; one of the top key contributors to the prevention of building true wealth, success, or happiness. I once read that, “the fastest way to fail is to try to impress people all the time.” People constantly lose themselves trying to find out how to keep up with others. If you find yourself in this race, get out immediately because you will never be happy no matter how much money you have. Strive for excellence, and do so righteously and for your own preference. ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ is a hell of a drug. Definitely say no to this drug!

Competition doesn’t exist for me because. I don’t want it to exist for you!

I Love And Appreciate Everyone! God Bless!

Stefan G-Prez Johnson is the President and CEO of Graduatirement, LLC, an evolutionary business of success for the entire Millennial Generation, which shows students all around the world how to graduate college and retire professionally simultaneously! His mission is to help everyone, especially Millennials, reach their ultimate individual success, happiness, and prosperity in college, life, and business by providing tons of knowledge and profitable opportunities, and ultimately revolutionize the entire Educational System so that happiness and success are more commonly achieved, passions are pursued, and poverty is conquered. Join the successful movement at The Graduatirement Website Here. We love and appreciate you!

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