Carlos Gil, founder of the Pink Slip Party on Facebook and the national job-seeker and recruiter mastermind behind JobsDirectUSA is one of those guys who always sees the glass as half-full, rather than half empty. The self-made social networking guru and Pied Piper of professional job placement parlayed his own layoff in 2008 from American General Financial Services into a self-funded philanthropic quest to help others like him find new jobs.
Fueled by the same drive and passion that saw Gil rise from a shoe salesman in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to a corporate management maven overseeing millions in loan and credit receivables for American International Group (AIG), Citigroup, and Regions Financial Corporation, Gil specializes in thinking out of the box, creating and executing platforms and strategies that help job-seekers and employers nationwide.
JobsDirectUSA is the natural culmination of Gil’s social networking mastery and tireless drive and determination to bring job-seekers and employers together so Americans can overcome the worst recession since the Great Depression and set about getting back to work.
Another Monster.com or Careerbuilder you say? Hardly.
Of JobsDirectUSA Gil says:
“Simply put, we're not just another job board. We're America's job search! Via our website we pull over 4 million LIVE job ads at any given time from multiple job boards (i.e. Monster, CareerBuilder, etc.) and in addition to our community involvement (i.e. pink slip parties, career expo's, etc.) we are actively involved with connecting seekers with hiring companies via social media nearly 24/7”
One of Gil’s first innovations that helps drive recruitment networking and hiring is the ‘Pink Slip Pary on Facebook’, for which he received national news coverage from such respected outlets as CNNMoney. He harnessed Facebook’s power to draw a diverse array of job-seekers and employers to the site, where Gil then orchestrated actual meet-and-greets and career expos for anyone hiring or burning holes in the soles of their shoes looking for work.
As Gil himself says of ‘Pink Slip Partying’, “…think speed-dating for jobs".
The gatherings provide job-seekers and recruiters a relaxed atmosphere to network, commiserate, and ultimately nurture and grow relationships that can lead to career opportunities that otherwise might not have been discovered.
In addition to extensively working to market real time job placement opportunities on Twitter---where JobsDirectUSA tirelessly Tweets nationwide job postings---, Gil has once again come up with an innovative delivery method using social networking to bring Human Resource professionals and careerists together, #HireFridayJOBS.
According to Gil, the hashtag Twitter messaging for #HireFridayJOBS was a natural response to a circle of Human Resource professionals on Twitter telling Gil not to post JobsDirectUSA’s openings on their hashtag stream.
Essentially, it was a kick in the teeth to Gil by the very HR people he has diligently been committed to helping with his mutual efforts on behalf of the people doing the hiring and the folks in desperate need of jobs.
Since there is no ‘hashtag ownership’ on Twitter, here is how Gil is again using social networking power to post job information:
“If you want to participate in #HireFridayJOBS here’s how it works, very simple:
JOB SEEKERS:
Follow the #HireFridayJOBS stream to discover real job postings in the U.S. from multiple job boards, staffing firms, state workforce boards and hiring companies across the United States.
Please feel free to post your LinkedIn URL, website URL, blog, virtual CV, etc – we will RT your tweets to our legion of followers.
RECRUITERS:
Post your job openings, job leads, contact information, LinkedIn URL, etc. in the #HireFridayJOBS stream – we too @JobsDirectUSA will RT your tweets to our legion of followers
That’s it, no absurd rules – just solutions!”
Indeed, in a sour economy where hopes and dreams of job-seekers can hinge on whether or not they see their next career path on JobsDirectUSA, the #HireFridayJOBS hashtag on Twitter or the Pink Slip Party schedule of events on Facebook, Carlos Gil has provided a shining example that a career mishap not of your own making can have a silver lining.
Thanks to Carlos Gil’s tireless efforts, The job that you dream really can come true.
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