Day 1: The Great Social Networking Job Hunt Begins

The Concept:

Use only Social Networking sites to obtain reasonable full time employment.


The concept of "It's all about who you know" has been around for as long as there has been any kind of social interaction between living beings. In the working world this is a daily reality, Job offers, promotions, collaborations Etc.. all mostly rely on relationships with a little bit of skill and luck thrown in.

Traditional Non Internet job searches look kind of like a ripple in the pond when you drop a pebble in. Point of impact you make a little splash, your local area gets hit with the initial wave first and most effectively, and as the ripple moves away the wave becomes less significant and harder to see. With the advent of email and online job searches, the pond gets a lot bigger but your pebble remains the same size and there is lots of flotsam and jetsam to impede your wave. There are also millions of other people dropping pebbles that depending on their relationships might get to use a much bigger stone than you.

Now along come social networking sites, new ones every day. These applications allow you connect and have a relationship with people who before were at the farthest ends of the pond. So while this means the pond just got much much bigger, theoretically these relationship tools should turn my little pebble into a Fragmentation Bomb full of millions of pebbles.




Some Questions:

• Has this already been Attempted?
• Can I find ways to rise above the social networking noise tide to be noticed?
• Which tools give me the biggest pebble?
• Will my wife run out of patience and leave me before I find a job?