As of today I am officially available for a new career opportunity. This past week the company I have been with for over 2 years now, we officially parted ways due to restructuring.

I will truely miss the relationships and friendships I created while at BOSSdev and the fantastic projects and success stories we had while being a part of such a dynamic company.  I wish them all much success going forward.

On my side, I am excited to become a case study myself for leveraging social media to land the next dream job. I have started a strategy to utilize Social Media to network and to attract the right opportunities. I will list a few steps that I am using in order to hopefully be of use to others and at the same time come back with a follow up post as to how this strategy worked!

1. After getting let go, I took the initiative to contact all of my immediate colleagues to thank them and to offer my personal contact information.
2. I contacted my close recruiters that I created a relationship with over time through email, tweetups, and networking events.
3. Began to harvest some immediate leads from close contacts and followup with emails, phone calls, Direct Messages, etc.
4. Took the weekend to relax, refresh, and re-energize myself.
5. On Monday I tweeted, placed on my Facebook status and LinkedIn profile my availablity.
6. I setup my RSS reader to list immedate openings in various target markets and job keywords that I am interested in. Some of these sites are: http://simplyhired.com , http://indeed.com , http://socialmediajobs.com
7. Now will work with some recruiters in certain demographic markets and continue to tap into my network of colleagues and past relationships I have had an opportunity to work with.

I am willing to look here in my backyard of the Metro-Detroit area as the digital and interactive community is really growing however, my doors are wide open to other locations nationwide.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics I am 1 of over 39 million unemployed as of August 2009. So I know it won’t be easy to find the next dream job. Using Social Networking I am anxious to see how much faster I can remove myself from that statistic.