10 Job Search Tricks, When Time Magazine Recommended JibberJobber

10 Job Search Tricks, When Time Magazine Recommended JibberJobber Remember a couple of weeks ago when there was a Time Magazine article recommending JibberJobber?  I shared this with my team and one of my programmers wrote back and said hey, we do two of the other ten things, too! My team is very proud of the breadth and depth of what they have developed! Let me share a bit more of what we do. The article says: 2. Use JibberJobber to Keep Track of Information You Collect During Your Job Search.   This is a great observation, even though its something I dont talk about enough.  But heres how it works.  If you find information about a target company, contact, job opportunity, etc., and it might come in handy later, while you network or interview, you should collect the information.  Store it in JibberJobber, obviously. Here are the other two from the list of ten: 8. Use Insightly to Manage and Organize Business Cards You Collect. This function is usually referred to as customer relationship management (or, CRM).  This is what I normally talk about and how most people describe JibberJobber: as a CRM!   So, I dont want to talk anything away from Insightly, but I will suggest that JibberJobber is a great CRM designed especially for job seekers.  The job search process, networking into target companies, etc. is what we are all about.  Our free version is highly functional and quite awesome.  For a small optional fee you could have everything we have to offer.  (quick note on Insightly: their free version has 2,500 records, which is NOT the same as 2,500 contacts and/or companies.  Every note, email, etc. (stuff we would call Log Entries) counts as a record which will add up).  Im sure they have an awesome system, but my point is, we now hit two of the ten points of the Time article. 9. Use Contactually to Create an Automatic Follow-up System Ah, the brilliance of a follow-up system!  I remember the phone call when I was talking to a user and he said JibberJobber is my follow-up system!  Ever since then Ive thought about that he didnt refer to it as his organizational system, or tracking system, or CRM but a follow-up system.  BRILLIANT. I had been talking about the power of follow-up in my presentations, but never referred to JibberJobber as a follow-up system.  But I do now.  Keith Ferrazzi said if you want to be more successful than 95% of your competition, all you need to do is follow-up.  I didnt match that concept with JibberJobber until my user said it was his follow-up system.  That is why we have introduced some of the features we have recently: to help you follow-up.  Time recommends Contactually, which is actually another CRM it has some special tools to help you reconnect with people, or prompt you to reconnect with people.  JibberJobber will move into that realm, but the reason why my dev team said we do this is because of our Recurring Action Items, which is basically scheduling an Action Item to recur multiple times (like, email Jason once a quarter.)  Well have more functionality like what Contactually does down the road.  (youll find that all CRM systems leap-frog each other with features one day you are ahead, the next day you are behind ) As a job seeker, you wont want to get THREE CRM tools.  Pick one.  More importantly, USE IT!  Picking the best CRM, but not using it is really a waste of time and energy. Get it?  USE JibberJobber!  Dont just sign up, but actually use it.  Your entire career could depend on it. 10 Job Search Tricks, When Time Magazine Recommended JibberJobber Remember a couple of weeks ago when there was a Time Magazine article recommending JibberJobber?  I shared this with my team and one of my programmers wrote back and said hey, we do two of the other ten things, too! My team is very proud of the breadth and depth of what they have developed! Let me share a bit more of what we do. The article says: 2. Use JibberJobber to Keep Track of Information You Collect During Your Job Search.   This is a great observation, even though its something I dont talk about enough.  But heres how it works.  If you find information about a target company, contact, job opportunity, etc., and it might come in handy later, while you network or interview, you should collect the information.  Store it in JibberJobber, obviously. Here are the other two from the list of ten: 8. Use Insightly to Manage and Organize Business Cards You Collect. This function is usually referred to as customer relationship management (or, CRM).  This is what I normally talk about and how most people describe JibberJobber: as a CRM!   So, I dont want to talk anything away from Insightly, but I will suggest that JibberJobber is a great CRM designed especially for job seekers.  The job search process, networking into target companies, etc. is what we are all about.  Our free version is highly functional and quite awesome.  For a small optional fee you could have everything we have to offer.  (quick note on Insightly: their free version has 2,500 records, which is NOT the same as 2,500 contacts and/or companies.  Every note, email, etc. (stuff we would call Log Entries) counts as a record which will add up).  Im sure they have an awesome system, but my point is, we now hit two of the ten points of the Time article. 9. Use Contactually to Create an Automatic Follow-up System Ah, the brilliance of a follow-up system!  I remember the phone call when I was talking to a user and he said JibberJobber is my follow-up system!  Ever since then Ive thought about that he didnt refer to it as his organizational system, or tracking system, or CRM but a follow-up system.  BRILLIANT. I had been talking about the power of follow-up in my presentations, but never referred to JibberJobber as a follow-up system.  But I do now.  Keith Ferrazzi said if you want to be more successful than 95% of your competition, all you need to do is follow-up.  I didnt match that concept with JibberJobber until my user said it was his follow-up system.  That is why we have introduced some of the features we have recently: to help you follow-up.  Time recommends Contactually, which is actually another CRM it has some special tools to help you reconnect with people, or prompt you to reconnect with people.  JibberJobber will move into that realm, but the reason why my dev team said we do this is because of our Recurring Action Items, which is basically scheduling an Action Item to recur multiple times (like, email Jason once a quarter.)  Well have more functionality like what Contactually does down the road.  (youll find that all CRM systems leap-frog each other with features one day you are ahead, the next day you are behind ) As a job seeker, you wont want to get THREE CRM tools.  Pick one.  More importantly, USE IT!  Picking the best CRM, but not using it is really a waste of time and energy. Get it?  USE JibberJobber!  Dont just sign up, but actually use it.  Your entire career could depend on it.