Do things to help people in your network. Don’t expect anything in return. When you approach your career as part of a robust professional community, you’ll build goodwill with others who will want to help you in the future. Our guest shares tips for job seekers to use social media to better serve their professional networks.  

About Our Guest: Tony Restell

Tony Restell is the founder of Social Hire (https://www.social-hire.com), a specialist agency that helps recruitment teams leverage social media. Previously Tony built and sold a successful job board business in the United Kingdom. He’s a guest speaker at leading business schools across Europe and a published author.

Resources in this Episode:

• Losing Job Search Momentum? Why You Should Help Others First: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-richard/losing-job-search-momentu_b_3087199.html 
• Read Tony’s article that inspired this podcast conversation: Career Success: Paying It Forward (https://www.social-hire.com/blog/candidate/career-success--paying-it-forward)
• Listener Don Fitchett asked for strategies to deal with age discrimination. Here’s a free resource to use as a guide: Fighting Ageism in a Job Interview (https://www.macslist.org/fightageism)

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