It was testimony to the tenuous state of the Sacramento job market that a full house attended the Sacramento Social Media Club’s May event, “Putting Social Media to Work: leveraging social networking tools to find and fill jobs.”  The panel discussion, held at the Urban Hive last week, featured four local professionals speaking of their experiences and expertise using social media to implement and accelerate job searches. The overall message of the four speakers was that social media--Twitter, Facebook and the like--have the potential to vastly broaden the parameters of a job and/or employee search. Speaking from one side of the hiring table was Curt Cetraro, CEO of ConnectPoint Search

JOB SEARCH SUCCESS IN A TOUGH ECONOMY By Naomi Kinert, M.A., MCDP Career Counselor Barely a day goes by without some additional dire news about the continuing housing crisis, layoffs and uncertainty about the economy. All of this can make for unsettling times for job seekers, be they recent grads, downsized workers or people looking to make a career move. As anyone who’s ever looked for a job knows, it can be a challenging task, even in the best of economic times, so when California’s unemployment rate was reported at 12.2% this past September, it’s enough to rattle even the most optimistic job seeker. So how do you approach a job hunt in a tough economy? You employ proven job search str