Student Flights Social Recruitment

Student Flights are advertising for a social media specialist, only they're not asking for a pdf folio or a word doc resume, they want your links. Just your social media links. Your blog. Your Twitter. Your LinkedIn.

"...all we want from you is links to your blog, Twitter profile, LinkedIn, and other social sites and in 140 character (or less) 'why we need you'. Forget the PDF or Word resume and formal application process. This is recruiting in the Social Media age and you get it!"

After all, they're only going to Google you anyway, find these links, and cyberstalk you to find out if your resume is a load of crap. So why not cut to the chase ... after all, if you are applying for a social media job you will be using your social media accounts so what better way to find the right person for the job?

http://www.studentflights.com.au/company/jobs/social-media-specialist

Well done Student Flights.

How to Make Facebook Profile Art

There was a post on Mashable last week that profiled some creative ideas for the new Facebook profile layout. Well, it called them 'profile hacks' but I hardly think tagging some pics can qualify as a 'hack' ... it really is that easy.

Here are some instructions for creating the Facebook profile layout art seen in this article, but it assumes a basic knowledge of Photoshop and some creative flair.

Good luck!

1) Screencap your Facebook profile and paste it into Adobe Photoshop
2) Create a layer mask over the profile pic and the 5 profile thumbs across the top. You may also want to post a gallery and include these thumbs in you design. If you don't know how to make a layer mask, fill a new layer with white, change the layer transparency to 50% and use the selection rectangle to draw over the profile pic and thumbs, deleting the white layer over the top. Set back to 100% transparency.
3) Create your design behind the white layer so you can see what it looks like made up in the format of profile pic and thumbs.
4) Using guides drawn top, bottom and sides of the profile pic and thumbs, select the photo/art area.
5) In the edit menu, select 'copy --> merged'.
6) Create a new file for that image. Repeat for all thumbs and profile pic.
7) Save these as thumb1 to thumb5 and upload them into a gallery.
8) Upload your profile pic to the profile pic section
9) Tag yourself in your thumbs, but be sure to do it in reverse order ... ie the one you want to show up on the left (first position), tag it last.
10) If anyone else tags you, this will ruin the order of your thumbs! Disable this option or be ready to quickly delete tagged photos!



Here is my first effort, using a cartoon of a Fairy in a Christmas hat that I did for Xmas last year.



Post your creations ...

Baby Monkey Lyrics

Our favourite YouTube video of all time, Baby Monkey, complete with lyrics.



baby monkey, baby monkey
riding on a pig, baby monkey
backwards on a pig, baby monkey

the world has gone insane
and you don't know what is right
you've got to keep on keeping on
get on a pig and hold on tiiiiiight

baby monkey, baby monkey
riding on a pig, baby monkey
going backwards on a pig, baby monkey
heeeey

My year on Facebook

You know you post too much when your year of status updates looks like this:



Beware though, this tool is filled with ads and tricky buttons designed to pull you through to a page advertising scammy astrology type stuff. Now I don't mean astrology is scammy, just most of the services practicing it! So be careful not to click on the 'continue' button that actually takes you to a landing page of ads.

Or ... just don't ever install this kinda stuff in the first place!