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How Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media tools help you stand out

Traditionally it was employers who had to make themselves visible when looking to fill vacancies – posting adverts in the press, then choosing a pool of candidates from a veritable tsunami of applicants. But not any more.

There’s mounting evidence that personnel specialists are now scouring social media sites and job boards for potential employees.

“Recruitment departments are starting to dabble with professional networking and other forms of social media to headhunt potential candidates,” says Teresa Sperti of The IT Job Board.

Microsoft recruiter Declan Fitzgerald claims that he saved £60,000 in recruitment fees by sourcing nine programming posts through professional networking site LinkedIn instead of using traditional channels. That’s all good news if you’re currently looking for a job in IT.

What better way to ply your wares than on the web, where you can track down the right people and demonstrate your expertise direct?

If you’re wondering how to draw attention to yourself in the right way on social-media sites, help is at hand. We’ve put together a comprehensive action plan for you to follow:

10 expert tips on using social media to get the job you want

Step 1: Set up multiple accounts

The first rule of successful professional networking is to keep business and pleasure strictly separate. Multiple social networking accounts will help you to present your best face to recruiters.

The first and easiest strategy is to use business oriented networks like LinkedIn, BrightFuse and Naymz for work while reserving MySpace and LiveJournal for mates.

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Digg is to finally get its own iPhone app, after co-founder of the website Kevin Rose unwittingly let details slip.

Rose was a speaker at last week’s FOWA (Future of Web Apps) conference in London, and while he said nothing about the application in his guest speech, he did mention the app to two bloggers in an interview afterwards.

Nobody knows about that

An eagle-eyed Arnt Eriksen and Thomas Moen spotted Rose playing with the application on his iPhone before the podcast interview started and quizzed him about it when the video was running.

His response: “I cannot show that off yet. You’re not even supposed to know about that… nobody knows about that.” He then sheepishly allowed them to keep the segment in their podcast.

Currently, Digg has its own mobile version of the site, but it has yet to get an official iPhone app.

Category level

Also in the interview, Rose mentioned that Digg is to change the way it aggregates articles on the web, saying that multiple homepages could be in the running.

He explained to Eriksen and Moen: “We have always had this universal homepage which we are promoting stories too, but now we are going to start promoting it at a category level to get more longer tail content. It’s completely redesigned for us.”

If you want to see the full iPhone revelation, then check out the video below:

Via ReadWriteWeb and Arnteriksen.com