Using Social Media to Look for a Job? Listen to the Experts

The Social Network Show on KDWN welcomes Jeff Sheehan and Al Smith to the August 11, 2014 episode.

If you are looking for a job or if you are an employer looking for good candidates, we recommend listening to this show. Jeff Sheehan and Al Smith, who wrote the book Hired! Paths to Employment in the Social Media Era give tips on how to search for a job and more. Listen to the show to hear how to "harvest a bounty of riches"; to use social media as a tool but not the only tool to look for a job; to find jobs that are not posted; to use SEO and keywords to get noticed online; to use a "long tail search" to find the jobs you are looking for; and to keep a job once you have been hired.

Jeff Sheehan holds a BBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a M.S. in Finance from Bentley University, and a M.S. in Marketing from Georgia State University with additional training at Northwestern University and the University of Virginia. With over 30 years of high-tech global sales, marketing, and advertising experience marketing to many Fortune 500 companies including Intel, Apple Computer, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and AT&T, as well as many others, Jeff is now a marketing consultant and job search mentor, as well as the volunteer director of the Holy Spirit Catholic Church Career Ministry in Atlanta.

Jeff ranks in the top 1% of people on LinkedIn. With almost 275,000 followers on Twitter, he is also among the Top 50 People Most Retweeted in the World by Mid-Size Marketers. In addition, he has been recognized by many as one of the top people in the world to follow on Twitter for marketing, social media, and sales.

He is a well known speaker in the Atlanta area on the use of LinkedIn, Personal Branding, Social Media, and Marketing.

Jeff is a Toastmaster (CC), volunteers extensively for multiple charities, and is an engaging and informative speaker on marketing, social media, and the use of social media in the job search. He is the co-author of the just released book: 'HIRED! Paths to Employment in the Social Media Era

Al Smith has been an executive for seven companies in five industries and has in excess of 35 years of management, sales, marketing, training and coaching experience. Al’s record of success as a multiple award-winner in each industry, speaks to his innate ability to transfer skills to changing landscapes. Those skills now aid candidates with their most challenging “sales” and “marketing” experience: Job Transition.

National trainer for three companies in two industries, Al has adapted techniques from Xerox, Kimberly-Clark, American Management Association, Miller-Heiman, Systema, and others. He has morphed life tested experiences combined with a proprietary methodology interspersed with self-deprecating humor.

Mr. Smith has been heard internationally via webinars, coaching classes, seminars and live speaking engagements. He has helped in excess of 1,000 people with their job search during the past four years. Al’s creative presentations communicate complex material in readily understandable terms. Einstein said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t know it well enough.” If correct, few know how to help candidates secure employment better than Al Smith.

Al is Director of the Unity North Atlanta Church Career Ministry, volunteers extensively and is an engaging keynote speaker whose topics are numerous, entertaining and packed with insight. He is also he co-author of the just released book: 'HIRED! Paths to Employment in the Social Media Era