Exclusive! Increase Your Chances Of Employment With These Digital Tools

Employment has always been a trending topic in the Nigerian laboursphere and as unbelievable as it is in the midst of all the unemployment rant, thousand of people get jobs without having any form of "from the top" connections everyday. Yes! this is a fact, so how do they do it. I'll show you how I landed 12 interviews that were a perfect fit in 2 weeks after just leaving school less than six months

So, if you are reading this it means you are interested in getting a job or expanding the possibility of getting a job change but are not getting the best from your job hunt strategies. In the next few paragraphs i'm going to share tips that help me land 12 interviews in 2 weeks. funny enough this tools also helped me land executive Jobs that got me the current managerial job that I have today.

The tips here are more of the tools that I used to stay abreast of employment opportunities and how you also can set it up to maximize the possiblity of employment...Lets Dive Right In

Google Alerts

A service which sends you email alerts whenever it finds some new information based on your search query or term.

How it works?
Google Alerts is very simple to use. Open Google Alerts and enter the search query. Whenever Google finds new information, which matches with your query, it will send you an email with that information.
Hence, you can easily get updates on your search query. This comes in handy if you want to
Know what others are saying about you or your business
Get information about your competitors
Monitor some news
Get the latest information about some brand, celebrity, etc.
Whether you like Google Alerts or not, you can use the following alternative tools for your business that can help improve your online presence.

Social Mention — Social media monitoring

Need to keep an eye on what people are saying about you, your company and competitors on social media and around the Web? Social Mention is a social media search engine that scours user-generated content on social media, blogs, comments, news, videos and more. Searches are done in real time and are delivered as a single stream of mentions from different platforms. Social Mention supports Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Digg and more than 100 other social media channels. Users can perform searches manually, or alerts can be set up for free at social media mention.com/alerts.

IFTTT (If This, Then That)

This monitoring tool is ideal for business people who know exactly what to monitor and when. IFTTT gives the freedom of setting up alerts so that you can be notified when your brand or mentioned keyword appears on a particular website.


The this part of a Recipe is a Trigger. Some example Triggers are “I’m tagged in a photo on Facebook” or “I check in on Foursquare.” The that part of a Recipe is an Action. Some example Actions are “send me a text message” or “create a status message on Facebook.”

Source – IFTTT

For accurate results, users will have to manually insert each keyword and mention alert type. IFTTT is free for both web and smartphones.

LinkedIn Job Alerts

Getting Email Alerts for New Job Postings. You can receive email alerts for new jobs posted on LinkedIn that match your general search criteria or that are recommended to you from the Jobs You May Be Interested In feature.


Set up and manage email alerts using Job Alerts


An email alert can be created through the Job Alerts feature on the Jobs results page of LinkedIn.com:

To the right of LinkedIn's job search results page, click Create search alert.
Select how often you'd like to receive an email alert about new jobs on LinkedIn.com that fit those specific search parameters.

Alerts can be sent daily or weekly.
Check the boxes next to Email and Mobile and desktop, if you would also like to be notified of new jobs via LinkedIn.com and the LinkedIn Job Search app, if applicable.
You can also set up a Job Alert if you search for jobs through a search engine and land on a LinkedIn jobs page, even if you don't have a LinkedIn profile.
Learn more about accessing your saved Job Alerts.


To set up a Job Alert as a guest:

At the bottom of LinkedIn's job search results page, enter your email address and click Create job alert. You can also enter your email address and click the Create job alert button in the upper left corner of the page.
Click Create job alert to save. Once activated, you'll begin to receive daily emails for that job search.
Important: Once you sign up for a Job Alert as a guest, you'll receive an activation email. You must confirm activation through the link in this email before you begin receiving Job Alerts. All activation emails are valid for 7 days. Any Job Alerts that have not yet been activated will be in a pending status, and you cannot have more than three Job Alerts pending at any given time.
Keep in mind that if you sign up for a new LinkedIn account, any guest Job Alerts you've created will transfer to your new account.

Hootsuite Syndicator Pro

Manage and monitor all your favorite blogs and websites with Hootsuite Syndicator Pro. This tool provides a quick and easy way to view RSS feeds and share them to your social media channels, as well as rich filtering, monitoring and tracking tools, and most important, the ability to track which stories you’ve shared.



Key features:
Add streams of articles and stories via RSS feeds
Import and export OPML or XML files to add and share your RSS feeds
Easily manage large lists of RSS feeds with a rich toolset: set up Groups and filters, mark stories as ‘read’ or ‘unread,’ mark articles as favorite or ‘read it later’
Share articles and stories to your social networks, and track the stories you have shared
Leverage your Hootsuite teams functionality to assign items to your teammates for follow up
Save articles to other sources like Pocket, Evernote, OneNote, Google Drive, Tumblr, and more

Also, Hootsuite Insights

Hootsuite Insights. This tool allows you to gain powerful real-time insights about your brand; track influencers, stories, and trends; and visualize the metrics, all in one place.


Key features:
More data sources in Hootsuite with results from more than 100 million sources now in your engagement platform
Engage directly from stream and take action on previously hidden results
Filter and tailor results by sentiment, platform, location, and language
Historical coverage: reach into the past to bring a stream of mentions to the fo

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