Professional Pins?

It's no secret I'm applying for jobs. I tweet about it a lot, I submit as many as I can on nights I don't have excessive amounts of homework and I try to network as often as I can.

Most of the jobs I'm looking at are in the social media field, but I'm also looking in sales, marketing, digital strategy positions, corporate communications and almost anything else I can get find. Every job description says something along the lines of:

"proficient/expert/knowledge of Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Google+, etc., etc., etc..."

The problem is, how to set yourself apart from every other person who can use them. What did I think of last night? Combining some of them!

I pinned my LinkedIn page last night. Then I tweeted about it. And get this--people FAVORITED it. I took that as an implicit, "you're doing something right..."(hopefully...)

I've never heard of anyone doing this. I'm not sure what to expect. That's exactly the same as the rest of the job process though--I've never done it and I don't know what to expect. My thought process: why not? 

As a college senior, you can take classes and get help on how to apply for jobs, but no one really has any specific advice on how EXACTLY to get a job. It's all so wishy-washy. There's no map. You write your resume and cover letter and send it out places. Every email says basically, "Don't call us, we'll call you because of our high volume of applicants..." AKA "May the odds be ever in your favor..."

I'm not really sure what to expect, but hey, this is another way I can try to get my name out there. If it helps my resume and name potentially find it's way to someone's desk, I'll take it!

Here's to applying for jobs and doing whatever it takes to landing one!

xxKatie

Interning: Can You Do Me a Favor?

I really hate to ask my followers to do anything extra, I hope y'all know that! However, you will really be able to help me out BIG time if you can spare a minute or two! I entered myself in a competition to win a summer internship just for kicks! (It's a bit of a long shot, but I figured I would step out of my comfort zone, apply anyway and see what happens!!)

About.me, that website I posted about where you can manage ALL your social media sites, is holding a contest for all users! I'm attempting to alert many of my social media feeds to please vote for me, so I'm sorry if you feel like you've seen this 50 times!

Click HERE to vote and (hopefully!) hook me up with what could be an awesome internship!

Also, like I said in the last post about About.me, I highly encourage EVERYONE to sign up for one! It makes personal branding and showing your social media prowess easy and fun!

I jazzed mine up for the competition, so here's the new and improved version:

Special thanks to Bayside Bride for the photo! So many benefits to interning for BB if you're interested! Speaking of internships, click "interning" above to hear more about BB opportunities!

Thank you a million times over to anyone who can spare the few clickable seconds to help me out! 

LBP love and all of mine,

xxKatie

About.Me

Blogger

Tumblr

BlackBerry Messenger

LinkedIn

Foursquare

Yelp

Texts

Pinterest

Polyvore

Twitter

Google+

Klout 

Facebook

Wordpress

Emails

Social media, ways to connect, ways to build your brand, all of the above?

Ever question how to keep it all organized? Sometimes it's really hard. Actually, most of the time it's really hard. You phone can have about 90% of these apps if not 100% of them. I have a bookmarks bar chock full of all these different websites/applications that I maintain on an almost daily basis. Ask anyone with their own website, and I'm sure they'll say the same thing. We all have our own ways of staying organized, however, I've found a great new website to keep everything all together! Good news!!

Introducing About.Me! 

Imagine combining all your different webpages into one personal map!

About.Me keeps track of all your different applications that you might use to promote your blog, website, self, etc. It's s clean website that you can customize as much as you'd like! You can upload photos, change fonts, edit colors, and of course, showcase your social media prowess! I organized mine yesterday into what you see here. I crafted mine to be partly a resume (or similar to my resume in my bio), and partly an organization of social media. 

It would be really easy to list this as a website on a resume for a potential company to visit and see your social media exposure! You also can tailor it to exactly what you want people to see. For instance, there's no need for people to see my personal facebook page, so instead I linked mine to my facebook fan page instead! You can alter almost everything on your page...pretty cool! I encourage anyone who's spread their social media networks out online to take advantage of About.Me!

xxKatie