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Having Fun with Twitter

April 6, 2009 / Ryan McColeman / 0 Comments

Since taking over the supervision of the TalentEgg Twitter account three weeks ago, I really have had a lot of fun trying to come up with creative ways to provide useful content, and generate discussion on the site. In particular, I have enjoyed asking questions of the TalentEgg Twitter community. I am a philosopher at heart, and like Socrates, the patriarch of Western Philosophy, I like popping up and asking people questions.

An idea that I first applied last week is to direct certain questions at specific individuals (three to be exact). One individual being an active TalentEgg follower, the second a careers/business expert, and the third being a generally well known individual. This formula may undergo some tweaking, but I really like the general approach. Posting a question to a Twitter community is kind of like asking a question of a class of students: it works well to call out a couple of people, get them participating, and have them provide the spark that encourages others to join in the conversation. So far this has worked rather well. There has been a strong response to the questions I’ve asked. My hope is to post a question of this sort on a daily, or semi-daily basis, during the work week.

As TalentEgg’s Twitter site continues to grow, I anticipate the development of more and more opportunities for interaction with our followers. At its core, the Twitter site provides a great opportunity for individuals to stay abreast of what is happening on the TalentEgg home site. TalentEgg continues to post great entry-level job opportunities, and a talented host of writers are producing insightful Gen-Y careers articles at the TalentEgg Incubator. I hope you will (or will continue to) follow us on Twitter (@TalentEgg), and check out all that TalentEgg has to offer.

I'm home sick, but [embarassingly] can't escape the EGG puns

After 2 days of feeling kind of, sort of sick, this afternoon I finally decided to take off and go home to rest.

[This is the embarrassing part]

I’m watching the Family Channel.

And I’m watching a show starring a Dog and a Dragon (as you do, when you’re 25).

And the entire episode is about finding some sort of special egg!

And the egg puns haven’t stopped. Here I provide you with a sample:

“no, the egggggg!!!” (when they lost the special egg)

“we’re too late, it’s sunny side up”

“the egg plan is scrambled, master”

….and then:

“mission eggcomplished”

“that’s all, yolks”

“time to make our eggcit”

I must say, I’m upset that I didn’t think of some of these myself. Look out for these and other egg puns in future e-mail and spoken communications.

‘Til neggst time.

Greetings, TalentEgg Community

March 16, 2009 / Ryan McColeman / 3 Comments

Hello there, egg-folks,

I would just like to introduce myself. My name is Ryan McColeman. I am the new Online Community Manager at TalentEgg. I am a Philosophy graduate from Queen’s University, and am currently enrolled in the Post-Graduate Marketing Management program at Humber College. The Online Community Management position is fulfilling an internship component of my program at Humber.

I am excited about my new role with TalentEgg. I am hoping, through my efforts, to make it is easier for TalentEgg to interact with student/grad job seekers, and for the student/grad job seekers to interact with TalentEgg. One area where my contribution will be visible is the TalentEgg Twitter site (www.twitter/TalentEgg). Starting today, the site will feature links to articles, questions, and comments, all related to recent-grad career issues, and all intended to generate thought and discussion.

As I move through my internship position with TalentEgg, I am going to be blogging about my experiences, on this site. I invite you to return here, and learn of my experiences with this exciting company,

Ryan

The Wonderful World of Campus Recruitment

March 11, 2009 / Adriano Rivera / 1 Comment

In my last post, I mentioned that we had tricks up ‘our sleave’, but I didn’t really say what those were. Mostly because at the time, a lot of things were coming together…in ‘incubation‘, you might say. Today I am happy to report that TalentEgg has evolved significantly since my last post, and we have lots to report.

In a very short while, and in the midst of some tricky economic times, we have managed to accomplish quite a bit:

We launched The Incubator: The Incubator is an online, social career magazine providing personal and specific career advice, tips, and stories. So far, we have a team of over 10 amazing contributors and one particularly awesome editor (Cassandra!). Look out for our first ‘digest’ at the end of this month. The theme? “The class of 2009: Graduating in a recession”.
We got involved with a very exciting video series through UTours. Still in production. On the topic of The Job Hunt.
We began booking some serious speaking engagements. Over the next few months I will be presenting for The Conference Board of Canada, The Campus Recruiting Forum, and CHAT high school (:)), as well as putting on two 3-hour workshops on the 4 generations in the workforce in Newfoundland!

And this is all aside from the great content that is continuously popping up on the main TalentEgg.ca site. Today we were talking about how we have so many ‘Recent additions’ to TalentEgg on a weekly basis that we’re going to have to add a scroll bar to that section of the site!

Significance:

With the addition of The Incubator to the TalentEgg family, we’ve gone from being ‘like a campus career fair, online’ to being ‘like a campus career centre, online’.
With the launch of a media outlet geared at 18-24 year olds (The Incubator), and the launch of our consulting/speaking projects, we’ve gone from being a 1-product company to a 3-product company.

We’re very eggcited. Be sure to check out The Incubator, and if you have any questions about the presentations we give, feel free to give us a buzz!