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When in the job process, you are trying to find the right fit in terms of you and the firm. One thing that you always have to keep in mind is salary. Money is always in the back of our minds or maybe someone's main motivation in looking for work. Either way, we can negotiate salary with employers and it is a perfectly okay.

In What Color is Your Parachute? 2016, Richard Bolles discusses how to appropriately negotiate salary with employers. We always want to make sure we get the right fit with the right income. So we should negotiate, but, Bolles strongly encourages not to discuss salary until they have made their decision about higher you or not.We would like to find out what this company is all about while not making it all about the money. After, we have gone through the process and figure out all we have wanted to know, we should then begin the negotiation.

While in the negotiation process, we want to figure out what is the most the employer is willing to pay. What you have to do is figure out the range of the pay the employer is looking for. When they give you a range, the average between those numbers is most likely what they would like to get you for. So figure out the range and try to get as close to the top of that range.

Going back to the interview, Bolles gives additional advice, saying we should not mention pay first. We should try to get the employer to mention it first because once you say a number is may be lower or high then they expected and you do not want to cheat your self out of additional income you could have earned. With that say, before your final interview, make sure you do some research on similar jobs and see what they pay. This will give you a better idea of how much you can potentially earn.

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Once you have submitted your resume, and get the call you have anxiously have awaited for, you will be on to the next step, which is the interview. The company is already interested in you, so it is your job to persuade them why you will make a good candidate. This experience can make one extremely nervous. Putting nerves aside, you can prepare yourself for a successful interview.

In What Color is Your Parachute?, Richard Bolles, gives 16 tips on interviewing, to help you get the job and decide if the job is right for you. Instead of naming off every tip, I would like to share what tips I find really helpful. If you need more help, check out the book and it will go more in depth.

Interviewing for jobs can be stressful, and discouraging with rejection. However, Bolles first tip describes "employers." He says that there are many employers out there, and some employers won't want to hire you. We need to face this fact. But some one out there will. So in this case we need to keep searching despite fearing rejection. You must keep in mind that every employer is different. You want to find a place that shares your values. "Every 'NO' you get out of the way, gets you one step closer to 'YES'" (Bolles 55).

An interview should always be prepared for, this is in terms of questions and appearance. In Bolles' fifth conversation tip is questions that you should expect in an interview. One of the most important questions is usually the first one. "Can you tell me about yourself?" This is like an elevator speech. You should be well rehearsed and talk about thing that make you seem valuable. This is your initial impression make it count. There are lots of other questions that may be asked. Just take the time and think about interview questions you have had before. Do some research on the company and figure out what they may what to know about. Research questions and prepare answers the best you can. Some questions you may expect are as follows--

Being prepared in terms of answering questions, is very important. Yet, there are other factors that you may want to turn your attention to involving appearance and attitude. We do not want rule ourselves out for something small. So pay attention to appearance and make sure you look appropriate for the job you are applying for. Be punctual and make sure you look your best. Try not to display bad habits or nervous mannerisms. Small things like this could bother the interviewer to the point where they do not want to call you back. This goes along with conversation tip nine from Bolles. Don't let small things kill an interview.

The last tip I want to discuss is conversation tip eleven. Bolles says "Try to think of some way to bring evidence of your skills, to the hiring interview" (Bolles 70). Thinking about this from the interviewers point of view,  they do not know you very well and they want to know whether to take the gamble with you or not. Providing some type of evidence will make you seem more credible, especially if you have something on paper, certain types examples of your experience with previous job, and/or a numerical figure. This can show the type of worker you and how you will handle potential situations. Help yourself out and be prepared with these types of tools.

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Twitter is my favorite social media. There is always something entertaining on there. However, if you're not following the right people it can be very inappropriate. This is the same reason I deleted mine. So many people posted stuff that was inappropriate, I did not want to be tied in with that for various reasons, mostly because I am entering the job force in a year or two. So my advice to everyone is to be careful with personal Twitters. I do think you can use a personal Twitter to your advantage, however in terms of businesses Twitter can be great.

Twitter has continued to grow and has become very popular. Its a a great way to keep up with friends, family, celebrities, and businesses/organizations. It has very distinctive characteristic about it that makes it unique like hashtags #, using the @ symbol in reference to people, you can like, favorite, retweet, and each post is limited to 140 characters.

If you are a business, the cool thing is you can see how many people are following you and how many you are following and when you post you can see the feedback. Its great simple way to show new products, which can be done through ads, post, messages, or retweets. In CASA Marketing: Intro to Social Media Marketing, Todd Kelsey shows how to make and effective Twitter pages. He goes step-by-step in creating the account, he shows how to post, and gives a ROI strategy that is provided with a link. https://business.twitter.com/marketing-twitter

Go to twitter.com and create your own

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Included in Facebook's features, you can create Facebook ads. in Todd Kelsey's, CASA Marketing Intro to Social Media Marketing, you can learn all about how to make a Facebook ad and the importance.  When looking at Facebook, you can see ads to the right side of your pages usually or you see ads in "suggested post." Anyone can create these ads an it does not need to be for a business.

Kelsey talks about the how often people are on Facebook and social media. So if people are spending much time on Facebook they can see these ads and explore some of these organizations. In terms of importance, if you want to get people or your friends and family to see something you can create an ad. Kelsey says "there's not a right or wrong time to use them -- but the most common use is promoting Facebook pages" (Kelsey 82). So use these ads to promote what you wants. This will help draw individuals to the pages and help you gain support. With these ads. you can see statistics that will show how much attention your page is bringing in. You can see the views, clicks, click-through rate, and more. This will help you see if your ad is effective or not. You can learn different way to gain individuals attentions by looking at the stats.

Kelsey shows in his book, in chapter 4, how to create ads and campaign. You can create you campaign and get this connected to where you want people to go. Also, this will allow the user ti define their audience, pick languages, show interests, and more. You put money into the page and Facebook will help you with your ads. Kelsey shows you how to the monitor the page, with the different stats. Some times there is free Facebook ads if you look into Wix or Godaddy.

Visit the ad site for Facebook to check it out:https://www.facebook.com/business/

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If you have a business or some organization you would like to get some exposure a Facebook page may be the way to go. As one of the largest social medias out there, we should be able to use it to our advantage as most businesses do. In, CASA Marketing Intro to Social Media Marketing, Todd Kelsey goes through the different steps to making a page and explaining why it is beneficial.

Facebook is really a way to establish a business online. Many people when interested in a business, will look online and the first thing that is most likely to pop up, other than the website, is the businesses page for the company or organization. Their is so many members on Facebook and this is the perfect way to get people to notice your business or give them a chance to support it. Kelsey would say "A Facebook page is a central 'hub' for a business or organization to establish a social media presence on Facebook" (Kelsey 55).

Establishing a Facebook page for an organization is beneficial, as we already talked about. Kelsey helps to point these benefits that we can use along with the different feature to help these organizations. He shows individual how to create a page step-by-step.

You can create different pages for different things such as artists, organizations, businesses, entertainment, and support. Picking one of these will set up a template for the page and you just fill in the blanks. Once you have created the page and used Kelsey's help, you can begin posting. Posting can pretty much be whatever you want to explain your goals and gain exposure. You can even customize your Facebook link to what you want. Facebook has many other feature to use. One that is interesting is the one where you can "boost" your page. This will give you more exposure. However, there may be a cost involve. But Facebook is a tool for success. So why not create a page and get with the changing times.

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Many people have their own distinctive way of viewing job hunting. We all search job that we want and these certain opinions either help or hurt some. But keep in mind, there are many people entering and leaving the workforce, so this leave much room for individuals. You as the job hunter have every right to be nervous and worried, however there are many ways to shape the way you look for a job.

From What Color is Your Parachute?, Bolles gives his audience an alternative way to view jobs. He would go to say that job hunting is an art, not a science. Arts gives us the opportunity to be creative and unique as each person is different. If individuals need help there are many resources to help individuals get into a field that they are applying for. With that said, Bolles also would mention that it is a mysterious process, we never really know whats going to happen and this presents a challenge. Embraces the challenges and do the best you can to be prepared and know that you may have to be reactive to certain situations.

There is no always right and always wrong concepts. Certain things work for some job and certain thing do not work for other job. Like mentioned above, job hunting is an art. There might be some right things to and wrong things to do, however it is up to the you as the job hunter to be unique and learn about these certain things going through this experience. Remember this, Bolles says job hunting is or should be a full time job. We want employers and employers want you. Make yourself valuable and use this time to really figure out what you would like to do and make sure that you will fit into the business how you would like. We want the most successful position so take initiative to make sure its right.

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Upon reading What Color is Your Parachute? 2016: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers,  I came across a chapter that says Google is Your New Resume. Right at this moment it really hit me. A few ideas came to mind ever before reading the chapter. I began to think about my social medias: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc. These social media have much of my person information on them. When I think in regards of jobs, some of these things can really be used to my advantage. However, some things can really be not so good for jobs and for everyone to see. For example, Twitter has lots of funny yet inappropriate videos, hence why I deleted my twitter. I would not like for my job opportunity to be diminished by an inappropriate Twitter post. So instead of making a new Twitter, I created a LinkedIn account. I replace a bad habit with something good. It allows for me to share my business achievements, stay connected with people at a professional level, helps me in job market potentially.

In book mentioned above, the author begins the chapter by giving advice to Google yourself. Basically, see how yourself checks out. If you have inappropriate content edit it out. Make sure everything looks nice. Keep in mind that your future employer could be look at anything that pops up when they google your name. Also, recommended to fill in all the blanks and make everything presentable. Give your information to the site, don't be too personal. For example, make sure you have pictures on LinkedIn, share your jobs and whatever blanks. I would just say be careful because some people will chose to use your information in a way you would not like.
In the chapter Google is Your New Resume, it gives many recommendations to improve your resume and to help you become very valuable in the work force.Use these tools as an advantage.

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