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Listening to the State of the Union address, it’s clear that the next focus of the administration will be jobs, small business and small business lending. Obama is setting aside $30 Billion from the bank bailout to commit to small business lending, as well as a small business tax credit. Stay tuned for extensive coverage.

From the Exhired.com editorial team: hoping you have a turkey-induced coma Thanksgiving.

See You Next Week!

Happy Sunday everyone. It’s Sunday Fun Day, meaning we share with you some of the odd musings of the web. This is what people do in their spare time.

Today, we bring you the hottest artist of the charts, straight from Sudan. Bangs. He wants to take you to the movies. Enjoy:

Rap FAIL.

Please help promote Bangs by circulating this video into a viral phenomena. Also, if you are begging to know how to get in touch with Bangs, to book him for your next party, or just to absorb his wisdome, he has an e-mail address: Bangs_bookings@hotmail.com

I think I found our entertainment for the Exhired.com Christmas party. You can’t top that for entertainment.

How many of you knew what Twitter was in 2007? 2008? I would guess not many.  Clearly, over the past year alone, the service has grown exponentially, is becoming a branding platform for businesses small and large alike, and will continue to change the way we communicate to one another.  So what does this have to do with employment. It sounds like more and more recruiters, employers and job seekers are using the service to find one another.

Jobs and employment are becoming one of the latest trends on Twitter.  In fact, Joe Turner of The Ladders writes: “You can’t deny it. Job seekers and recruiters have a love affair with Twitter.”

Jane over at the Let’s Talk Turkey Blog has written a great piece on why you should consider Twitter as a means for finding your next job. the Let’s Talk Turkey blog is a blog dedicated to from the point of view of a professional recruiter.  A few excerpts:

“Joe also goes on to say that recruiters use Twitter — not only to post jobs — but to search through resumes.  Therefore, you, as the job seeker, should be promoting your resume on Twitter. He goes on to say, “Recruiters constantly use hashtags to locate potential candidates by searching words like ‘resume,’ certain skill sets, locations and so forth.  …you’ll want to incorporate hastags on your Twitter resume so you’ll be found when recruiters perform their searches.”

So how do you actually get your resume on Twitter with 140 characters? Well, you don’t. You link to it, according to Jane:

“Thankfully, Joe does a bang-up job explaining all of this.  I’ll paraphrase and you can read his article for additional info.  Basically, he says your Twitter job search post should have a link to your resume (using TinyURL or another short-link application) and should include key words, or hashtags (preceded by the # sign) that will attract recruiters.  He then goes on to say that your tweet should mention your desired job title and geographic location. “RT,” which means re-tweet,  should start off the entire posting as it will encourage your “followers” to forward your information on.”

Resources:

• Check out the post on Let’s Talk Turkey here
• Check out the original post by Joe from The Ladders here

So, I’ve got a story to tell…

I’m a fan of Google products. I always have been.  In fact, the seamless integration of gmail, google talk, google docs and calendar make life so much easier that I start to stumble when I can’t just simply “search” and find something when I need it.  I don’t like looking for things.  For this reason, I was also seriously considering getting the Motorola Droid, which comes with Android 2.0.  I’ve been an iPhone user for 3 years.  Until Thursday night….

But let’s roll back the clock to Thursday  morning.  I took a cab to the ad:tech conference in New York to bump heads with some of the leaders in the internet advertising industry. On the way there, my wonderful iPhone 3G seemed to slip out of my pocket while I was getting out of the cab. Of course, I didn’t realize this until I was already inside the conference.  I was like “shit” that’s the 3rd iPhone I’ve lost in 2 years, and I didn’t remember the cab number.

Then, I had a brief moment of rejoice, as if Steve Jobs himself appeared before me with angel wings and reminded me that I signed up for MobileMe, Apple’s synchronization service.  One feature of MobileMe is called “find my iPhone.” Aha! The perfect tool for such a problem. Rejoice, rejoice.  Or at least I thought.

Turns out the “find my iPhone” feature on MobileMe is potentially the biggest tease to be introduced into this world since man invented the strip club.  I got to watch my iPhone roam the city for hours on end. I couldn’t do anything about it but send a message to the phone kindly requesting the holder to return it to me.  New York is full of good samaritans. Right? Watching the map get updated every 15 minutes as I obsessively checked  it caused me emotional and physical distress:

I could SEE my iPhone travelling all over the city, like it was on one of those slow-moving, traffic-hell causing NYC city tour buses. Then shortly before 6, it was at LGA. Then it went offline. Did my iPhone go on a vacation? I haven’t been on a vacation in like a year. I was resentful and frustrated all at once.  FML.

All the meanwhile, Verizon was planning to unleash the final efforts of its marketing upon me.  I got a tweet from a friend letting me know that the Droid was going to be released at midnight Thursday at the Verizon on 34th St.  Alas, I got there at 11 p.m., and am definitely somewhere in this picture:

Yup, I got it, the Motorola Droid. And more importantly, I have an Android phone with tons of Google integrated features, and I’m loving every second of it.  I’ll write more about it later. But here is a teaser picture, thanks to the folks over at Boy Genius Report, who have a ton of droid coverage.

Enjoy the weekend all.

Exhired will be at the ad:tech NYC and CRS conference new york tomorrow and Friday.  Be sure to follow us on twitter at @exhired for all the latest updates and stay tuned for a report.  Better yet, if you are around, message us at we will meet you!

ad:tech of the digital marketing industry, and Exhired.com is there to follow all the action.  If you are in NYC I highly advise you check it out.  The ditigal marketing field is ballooning at an impressive pace, even in this recession.  Next target: mobile.  Stay tunes for a report!

So you’ve been laid off? Haven’t found work? Waking up in the mid afternoon waiting for that magic e-mail to arrive in your in-box requesting that you come in for an interview? Well, this is for you. It goes without saying that you reap what you sow. Well, you therefore will never reap what you never sow. Since there are tons of guides on how to find a job, and what steps you can take to polish your resume, network, join associations and network some more, I felt that I would approach the subject from a completely different perspective. Here are the 5 things you can do to guarantee you never get a job, in no particular order.

1. Do nothing. I mean nothing.

My favorite.  Wake up. Pick up the Wii remote. Order some Pizza (or ask mom to).  Such is the life of luxury for the unemployed.  No effort, no responsibilities, and no pressure.  Clearly, you should take advantage of the fact that a job, career or your own business is not just going to magically appear in your lap. I should also warn you that no, you aren’t Neo, and you are not in the Matrix.   So go ahead, sit there on the computer, Facebook all day, work on your Farmville farm,  “tweet” about how you don’t have a job, and join your unemployed peers in mass despair over your unemployment. Wake up at noon everyday. Don’t brush off your resume. Don’t sign up for job sites. Don’t talk with friends. Don’t try to network. Just do nothing.

2. Don’t let anyone know you are looking for a job

Your friends, they should all think you are still working at your last job.  They don’t have to know, do they? Don’t update your LinkedIn profile, and the world will never know you are sitting at home enjoying Curbed Your Enthusiasm. No one is going to hire you if they don’t know you are looking.  So it goes without saying that if you don’t let anyone know you are in the market, you probably won’t receive any interviews or offers. Better yet, if you don’t use your network of family, friends and ex-colleagues, you’ll have no way of your network for potential job leads.  Sure, most jobs don’t even make it to job boards like Monster or Hotjobs, because, just like you look to friends, families and people you are familiar with to, so do potential employers.  But you don’t care about that.  So don’t even think about brushing off that business card, breaking out that suit, and working on that handshake.  You should be working on your form for Guitar hero.

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Somebody ( or something) dropped in on the Fifth Ave. Apple store today…

Where's Steve?

Would crowds of Apple store customers overtake him? No. Nobody seemed to pay attention….

Anyone? Autograph? I created Apple! Come on!

Thought this was funny as I was walking today. I should have just taken it.