What Technology Is Used In Mechanical Engineering?

About.me (company): How can about.me used by Engineering Graduate to land a job in the technology sector?

• Answer:

  http://About.me isn't a guaranteed way to land a new job, but it can be one piece in a larger mechanism. Basically, it is an aggregator of your social media and other sites. As such, it can be a good place to direct potential employers to give them a much broader perspective of who you are than your résumé alone will reflect. If you have other interests or talents outside those normally expected of engineers, this is where an employer might see those and make decisions based on how well you might fit into their corporate culture. For example, if you're an athlete and the company has a sports team, that could give you the leg up on an equally qualified couch potato candidate. But more than that, using social media in a job search is really about marketing. You need to treat yourself as the product, then use your social networks, including http://About.me and Quora, to enhance your visibility and desirability. Networking through connections can help you tap into the "hidden job market" and find out about jobs that will never be posted on job boards. It's also a way to control the information that comes up when someone Googles you. After all, if you look like a ghost or, worse yet, have negative results like mug shots or drunken party photos, that can cost you a job. But, if your social marketing strategy puts you on all the major networks and only includes the information you want employers to see, you will look more interesting, well rounded, and may be able to suppress some of those negative search results under your positive ones.