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There’s social networking sites which you can adapt for job-seeking or job-hopping.
The good news is Jobhop is job-hopping, job-seeking, job watching and social networking between employers and candidates, no adapting required!
Jobhop came about because of a gap in the market, businesses need digital talent to survive, business decision makers hang out on Linkedin but our digital talent don’t.
The average age of a Linkedin user is 45 years old, it’s the oldest of all social networking platforms. With this in mind you can see why young digital talent tend to avoid it.
Jobhop appeals to young job seekers, there’s a clear understanding that it's the place to go to make the most of their profiles for employers or recruiters, there’s no “business networking” which you find on Linkedin. For young job and company culture seekers business networking has an air of stuffiness about it, “socialising” with employers is different.
When you speak with older generations about the term “jobhop” it’s something that’s always been frowned upon, but then again some of these people have been in the same employment for 30 years or more. Our young generation want to jobhop, to gain as much knowledge as they can from different sources, they want to climb the career ladder fast and will jobhop to do so. The average life span of a job these days is three years, times are changing.
Generation Y job seeker or a generation Z job seeker will be at home on Jobhop.
Generation Y Born 1977-1994
Generation Z Born 1995-2012
Even without having to register there’s a whole wealth of advice via its blog posts.
Jobhop could be a stepping stone to Linkedin, for a young social generation Linkedin can be scary so it’s good to start on a platform which they’d find more suited to them. Like anything though, once you dip your toe in a few times you gradually get a bit braver. By getting the mindset of social networking for employment, on a platform made for the young generation, it all becomes a little less scary.
Header
Like most social networking sites theres a header where the first step is to upload a profile picture
Your picture can be a more natural shot than it has to be on Linkedin. Graphic designers, web developers, community managers, digital marketers, AV technicians, all probably have a more relaxed attitude when it comes to dressing for work and the companies they work for accommodate that. I would recommend a good headshot or an action shot, perhaps one of you working at your laptop for example.
Now in edit profile you need to put a description into your header, remember the importance of keywords here. Once you’ve filled in your headline, remember the keywords to fill in your summary. Always think what type of job is it you’d like to attract, with that in mind put words related to that job into your summary. If you were a recruiter or an employer what words would you use to search for your ideal candidate? They are the words you need to be using in your summary.
Experience (Your Journey)
There’s a section where you can add all your experience. Always think about how you can make all past experiences relevant to the job you’re looking for today. Sometimes it’s the case that you’re looking to do something completely different, I would still recommend you include all your past work experience.
Contact Details
Always make it easy for a recruiter or employer to contact you. If you have a blog or website make sure you include the address as well as your Twitter name.
Once you’ve done all the ground work to attract recruiters and employers it’s time to get connecting.
Unlike Linkedin there are no barriers you wont get asked how do you know someone, the ethos on jobhop is the same as when you’re out and about meeting people. Everyone starts off as strangers until they either approach you or you approach them to start chatting.
Connecting
Go to the activity feed where you can view all the going ons of everyone you follow, connect with other hoppers and companies that interest you.
If you know the company you’d like to work at, search for them and if they’re on Jobhop you can directly follow them from their company page.
Post an update
You have to constantly think about marketing yourself and what would make you attractive above anyone else to recruiters and employers?
One way to keep in peoples minds is to regularly share an update.
Types of updates would be:
- Sharing knowledge
- Share your story
- Latest projects
- Your latest job interview and what you thought of their process
- Job seeking tips for others
- Job vacancies that you know of which aren’t suitable for you
- Company expansion news, you may have heard but others haven’t yet.
- Blog posts
- Other great blog posts
- Opportunities e.g internship, work experience, voluntary work
- Employment days/fairs
Have the same etiquette as you would on any other other platform, always respect others, check your spelling and grammar, respond if you get asked a question and remember that juicylucy@hotmail.co.uk is not a good contact email to have.
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Julie Bishop Jobhop.co.uk
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