How Can Pinterest Interest Your Future Employers?

Are you an addict of Pinterest? Are you looking for a job? If so, have you ever thought of using Pinterest to enhance your job search efforts?

In a recent article, “Using Pinterest as a Job-Search and Branding Tool,” it states that Pinterest is a great way to market yourself to future employers, especially if you are an art, graphic design, marketing, or other heavily visual major.

Tips on how to market yourself by using Pinterest:

• Create a resume board where you pin pictures related to your schooling and experiences. (Pin pictures of organizations you have interned for and student organizations and activities you have been involved in.)
• Create a portfolio board where you pin examples of the work you have created.
• Pin a copy of your resume.
• Create boards that are related to your interest to give more insight about you.
• Place your Pinterest URL on your job-search materials, including resumes, cover letters, e-mail signatures, profiles on LinkedIn, and more. *Make sure you use your actual name as your Pinterest page name so people can easily find you through a search.
• Make sure you provide a description of each picture you pin so the employers know what they are looking at.
• Keep your Pinterest clean and professional!

Now that you know how to interest employers by using Pinterest… Get to pinning!

Sharol Miller

Career Educator