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Social Media Week London: Skills, Careers & Recruitment Event Highlights

Help Wanted by Sam Michel

As this year's Social Media Week London kicks off next week (13-17th Feb), I asked Lauren to scan the 150+ events that make up the schedule with an eagle-eye for events focusing on recruitment, careers, skills and social media.

She found some corkers, which are listed below, the majority of which are free to attend. The full schedule has an enormous variety of events covering subjects from Freedom of Tweet: Censorship, Government, Marketers and the Law (Tues 14th Feb, 1 - 5pm @ Design Coucil) to Collaborating on Cancer (Weds 15th Feb, 2 - 3.30pm @ City Hall).

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Mind the Gap: Avoiding a Social Media Skills Crisis

This session will explore the digital industry’s seemingly insatiable appetite for social media skills. But where are the skills coming from? Academia? On-the-job learning? Is social media baked into the DNA of the digital natives? And are they needed for specific social media roles or will the social media purist become a thing of the past?

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Date: 13 February 2012
Location: Design Council, UK

Social Media Week: Empowering Change through Coaching - 1-2-1 Coaching Sessions

As part of Social Media Week 2012 I will be providing 1-2-1 coaching sessions free throughout the week to SMW attendees. In return all I ask is for those taking up the offer to be prepared to share a little of their digital or social media expertise and wisdom to help me get to grips with my own communications challenges in 2012.

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Date: 13 February 2012
Location: I can come to you or find a suitable venue, UK

2012 Social Media in Recruitment Conference

The UK's largest Social Media in Recruitment Conference aimed at helping companies maximise the use of social media as part of their online recruitment strategy.

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Date: 19 April 2012
Location: The Congress Centre, UK

Linkedin Bootcamp: Personal Marketing in Pictures [infographic]

Linkedin Bootcamp by mindflash.com

Our love-in with infographics continues with this doozy from mindflash with a step-by-step Linkedin Bootcamp giving some steps to get the most out of the B2B social network.

Handy and practical whether you're on the hunt for a new gig, working a business development angle or just buiding your professional profile, it's a handy check-list. Check the full list below and click-through for the big version.

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Social Media Week London Brainstorm: Ideas & Inspiration for 2012

BRAIN HUE Collection by Emilio Garcia

Two heads are better than one. So, 35 must be exponentially better, right?

At Chinwag, we're big fans of building things collaboratively, so we thought we'd really push the boat out for the initial planning of Social Media Week London 2012 (SMWLDN), 13-17th Feb, in case you're wondering.

On Tuesday evening, after an open invite, 35 people gathered at Ketchum PR's offices in Shoreditch to ruminate, dream and scheme on the themes for next year's SMWLDN. Analysing last year's event and taking informal soundings, the group started to explore five starting points:

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The Movember Digital Sizzle

MOVEMBER SIZZLE - WE WANT YOU... TO GROW A TECH 'TASH FOR CASH! We are determined to make 2011's final Digital Sizzle the best ever by joining forces with a very worthy cause - Movember. Yes, we're going to pit start-up against start-up, agency against agency - all to raise money for The Prostate Cancer Charity.

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Date: 24 November 2011
Location: Adams Street Private Members Club, UK

London Job Hunters are Embracing Social Media [infographic]

Infographic

Employers and recruiters using social media, especially LinkedIn, will not be news to many people. But now professionals are turning to social media to proactively search for vacancies.

Anyone with a LinkedIn profile has probably received, and perhaps even say have been annoyed by speculative emails from recuiters with roles to fill. What may be news is that social media is now establishing itself as a media for professionals to use proactively in their search for a job.

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Net:Work 2011

Tweets, Tablets and No Travel: How Work Is Being Transformed Did you get the memo? Your workforce is implementing a multi-billion dollar infrastructure change — by themselves.

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Date: 8 December 2011
Location: Mission Bay Conference Center, US

UK Start-up Jobs Fair, 'Silicon Milkroundabout' Returns 30th Oct

milk circle

Silicon Milkroundabout, the only jobs fair specifically for UK start-ups, returns on Sunday 30th October at The Old Truman Brewery, London.

Sure to lure in graduates and tech talent from the City, the fair will bring together over 100 start-ups, offering over 500 technical positions, so if you're a developer or engineer with a passion for building real products and crafting great code, it's the perfect place to meet exciting start-ups, hear their pitches and see what opportunities are up for grabs.

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91% of Recruiters Screen Candidates' Social Media Activity [infographic]

Do you use social networking sites to screen prospective employees?

If Zuck gets his way, every breathing moment will be automatically captured in a Facebook timeline. OK, so a slight exaggeration but ever more information is aggregated on social networks.

According to a recent survey from Reppler, whose service helps candidates manage their online reputation, 91% of employers are using social media to screen candidates with 67% making a decision based on the info they find, whether it's their personal triumphs to sordid bloopers.

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20 Oct. London: Bus. Development China, by Guilian Zhang, deputy mayor Yangzhou

This event will cover: * How to recognize market opportunities in China * How to spot and avoid the minefields in China’s economic, cultural, and political context * How to capture the market demand and build meaningful relationships in China’s business world

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Date: 20 October 2011
Location: Regus Portland House, UK

5 Oct. London: Michael Blakey (investor) teaches entrepreneurs on Funding!

Learn the Funding do's & dont's from Michael Blakey (informal) and Charles Delingpole (serial entrepreneur). Tips & tricks from the best in the field and meet with other entrepreneurs, legal advisors and informals. Send me an email, and I will put you on the list for free! www.efactor.com/fundingviews

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Date: 5 October 2011
Location: Regus: Broadgate Tower Conferencing, UK

Silicon Milkroundabout

The fast-paced growth of the British tech community has led to a wave of new jobs. Through the Silicon Milkroundabout job fair, brainchild of London-based start-up Songkick, more than 100 UK start-ups will come together on the 30th October to address the problem and offer over 500 jobs to attendees in a single day.

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Date: 30 October 2011
Location: Truman Brewery, UK

techpitch 4.5

techpitch 4.5 is an evening pitch event created by 2Pears, in order to showcase some of the latest tech startups, including some of the startups that have taken part in the UKTI pitch-training workshops in the past 6 months.

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Date: 5 October 2011
Location: The Auditorium, Pinsent Masons, UK