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What impression will your posts to social networking sites indicate about you to potential employers who screen such sites to learn more about you? What, if anything, can you do improve your situation?

What are the main advantage and disadvantage of customizing your cover letter and rsum by incorporating key verbiage from the job ad?

Respond to the following in the context of using networking to help you in your next job search:

"It's not what you know, it's who you know."

Identify the name and list the URL of the website of one national organization that represents your profession and has a local chapter. How can you use the local chapter to become known to and trusted by its active members?

What are three things to consider when asking for a job reference?

Videos

You may find the 5:57 min. TedTalk video by Juan Enriquez both unsettling and informative. He identifies a potential downside of social networking that has implications for you as a job seeker: Your online life, permanent as a digital tattoo (video and transcript).