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Sales recruiters and hiring managers can spend a lot of time looking for the right candidate, often through internet searches on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and sometimes, just a basic Google.  If you’d like a chance to be contacted, here’s a piece of advice:

Please make sure your online photo is professional. 
Not necessarily professionally done, but that you appear to be a professional in it.

I’ve posted before about the necessity of cleaning up your Facebook pages for public consumption, especially if you’re in a job hunt, but this is one step further.  Your online pages are often your first opportunity to make a great impression.  Use it wisely.

Meg Guiseppi has some nice thoughts on making sure that your online photo sends the right personal branding message.  She thinks you should put some put some effort into getting a great photo and then using only that one across all social media, so that it becomes an established part of your brand message.

Speaking of personal branding, Dan Schwabel also has some good tips on using social media to get a job.  Click and read.  He writes that you should be both proactive and reactive…meaning be active and look, but also position yourself online where people can find you, and make yourself a candidate that recruiters want to call.

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