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Jobs in Pods: social media recruiting

The twitter platform is fast becoming a distribution platform for individuals and companies alike. But have you ever thought about using it to drive traffic to your jobs? Intel has. They are our biggest client here at Jobs in Pods, and they have a twitter account where they post links to interesting jobs to the [...]

Our latest Youtube channel stats

The Jobs in Pods Youtube channel continues to skyrocket in audience. Below is our latest views and demographics for all to see. What’s interesting is the largest audience is an older crowd and overall the viewers are predominantly male.

10 reasons why your company should be jobcasting

After reading Chris Brogan’s article Twelve Ways to Sell Social Media to Your Boss, we decided it was time to write our own reasons why your company should be podcasting their jobs. Some of them may parallel his, but hey, its all good…! Here goes; 1. Every college kid has an ipod. Imagine them walking to class [...]

a ‘Twitter’ job board

TwitHire.com is a new job board for users of the micro blogger tool Twitter. As far as social media goes, Twitter is on the cutting edge with more than 1 million users who are mostly techies and web geeks. To use Twithire you need to have a twitter account. You dont post full job descriptions [...]

Proof that social networks work for recruiting candidates

There are still way to many recruiters/HR professionals who dont understand the value of social networks when it comes to recruiting. To those of you in that camp, here is some evidence to the contrary. Print it out and tape it to your wall. Jason Averbook flies around the country advising major corporations how to weave [...]

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Classify Yourself: I am a: Blogger

Current Job title?: President & Founder of Jobsinpods.com

Whats your dream "Social Media" Job ?: I'm doing it now!

LInk to your resume (i.e. blog or LinkedIn profile) or website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmrussell

Location: (city, state, country): Fairfield County, Connecticut

Tell us more about yourself?: I'm a blogger, podcaster and the owner of my own job board network. Social Media is taking over and I started this site as a way for those seeking work in the social media industry to find jobs and be found.

About Chris Russell

I am a 10 year veteran of the online recruiting industry. In 1999 I started AllCountyJobs.com LLC , a network of regional job boards for job seekers in CT, NY, MA and RI. Today I still manage that business, I run 2 other social networks: Secrets of the Job Hunt and Job Boarders, and I started the first ever podcast show for employers.

It's called Jobs in Pods and its changing the way companies talk to candidates.

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Podcaster gets jobs with ABC News

Here's a neat story about a podcaster getting a job with big media. Dan Patterson who was working for TalkRadioNews.com will be running the new media dept at ABC.He writes; This has been a tough one to keep quiet about: after an extensive back-and-forth, I’ve decided to take a job with ABC News. This fall I’ll be running ABC News Radio’s podcast/new media department. This is a huge jo… Continue

Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments (Add)

Jobs in Social Media sell sheet

If you are interested in purchasing this site here is the sell sheet (.pdf) with the main details. If interested contact chris [at] allcountyjobs dot com

Posted on August 19th, 2008 at 12:36pm — No Comments (Add)

How to become a sports blogger for your favorite team

I like this story. A fan of the Washington Redskins wrote a blog about...the Redskins. And guess what? He did a good enough job to get noticed and get hired by the team he loves. He now blogs at http://theredskinsblog.com/

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Posted on August 11th, 2008 at 9:07am — No Comments (Add)

What Is a Community Manager?

According to Read/Write/Web: A community manager can do many things (see below) but the most succinct definition of the role that we can offer is this. A community manager is someone who communicates with a company's users/customers, development team and executives and other stake holders in order to clarify and amplify the work of all parties. They probably provide customer service, highlight best use-cases of a product, make first contact in some potential business partnerships and increase t… Continue

Posted on July 19th, 2008 at 10:11am — No Comments (Add)

How to recruit social media talent

Well its starts with using social media. Here's an interesting conversation with a recruiter on this topic.

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Posted on June 29th, 2008 at 7:39pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 1:46pm on August 19th, 2008, B.Croom said…: I was reading Jeremy's blog and happened to find this site. Thanks so much Chris for creating it!

At 2:25pm on July 18th, 2008, Robbie Schmelzer said…: Thanks for the community. Peace and Carrots...

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At 11:19am on July 11th, 2008, Marta Kagan said…: Oops forgot to leave the URL... http://tinyurl.com/4k375l

At 11:18am on July 11th, 2008, Marta Kagan said…: Chris, this is great. I was recently blogging about "Resume 2.0" -- and it seems more & more folks are catching the wave. Keep up the good work!

At 11:22am on May 8th, 2008, Adam Reich said…: Wow what a great site! Thank you for creating it.

At 7:44am on March 28th, 2008, Beth Granter said…: Hi Chris, just wondered if this site will list international jobs, or just US ones?

At 11:28am on February 18th, 2008, Hannah said…: i added the blogrush!

At 11:54am on February 6th, 2008, Sonny Gill said…: Thanks Chris and thank you for starting a social media focused job board. Probably one of the fastest growing niches that isn't directly targeted as much as it should.