Job Search Strategies - Social Networking

Social Networking is vital in today's job search, I highly suggest purchasing the above books to help you utilize both of these social networking sites as advantageously as possible.  Jason Alba and Jesse Stay have done the ground work - These two books are worth the small investment and will help you enormously!

JobWhiz  designs and creates a custom-built Network Purposefully™ for senior level executives to connect directly to high potential new job leads through personal referrals arranged by telephone introductions to hiring decision makers, key industry figures, leaders in their field, respected academic authorities and others renowned for their contacts and referral databases.   

Go Direct. Find the decision-makers most likely to hire you and send them a letter.

Networking. Contact the people you know and the people they know.
Here are some of the more popular networking groups:

• RiteSite - a six-figure executive service
• Netshare - a six-figure executive service
• ExecuNet - a six-figure executive service
• FENG - Financial Executives Networking Group
• MENG - Marketing Executives Networking Group
• TENG - Technology Executives Networking Group
• BNI - International business networking
• LinkedIn - General networking group
• Xing.com - General networking group
• Ecademy - General networking group

Recruiters. Email your resume to thousands of retained recruiters thru Executive Agent or RiteSite.
For highly-compensated executives, the largest retained search firms are:

1. Korn/Ferry
2. Heidrick & Struggles
3. Spencer Stuart
4. Egon Zehnder
5. Boyden
6. Russell Reynolds
7. Christian & Timbers

Job Boards and Resume Posting. There are thousands of job boards and places to post your resume. To find a complete listing, click here for the 2008 Airs Directory. Most of the six-figure job boards shown below will post your resume. 

1. RiteSite
2. Netshare
3. ExecutiveRegistry
4. CareerJounal
5. ExecuNet
6. SixFigureJobs