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Peg is the Interim Winner, But There’s Still Time

Posted in May 1st, 2009

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Peg Mulligan, who is a content developer for some high tech companies in the Boston area, has creatively used the LINKUP job search engine to find several jobs of interest, and then posted to twitter about them. Her network of followers (1300) has been helped with her ideas and have passed the idea along to even more followers. Thanks, Peg. She is the INTERIM WINNER of the Twitter-Job contest, announced here, which is asking twitterers to creatively use LINKUP to conduct some original job searches and then tweet the results. This will lead job seekers to the promised land of a new job. There is still time. Here is the prize that Peg won:

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There are quite a few who all tied for second place.

Dawn Bugni, who is a certified resume writer, who blogs here.

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Becky McCray, who is a small town expert, who blogs at SmallBizSurvival.

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Getting into the spirit of the contest was Lucy who is a resumewriter with a Spanish influence.

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Others of note were Alison Doyle of the famous About Job Search blog.

Toby Dayton whose blog Diggings is the one to watch for re Media and Employment Media News.

And CrypticFragments and the fantastic Auntie Stress. alison toby crytpicfrag

A special thank you goes out to Bill Austin who is the Chief Technology Officer for AZhttp, Inc. Bill has 87,000 followers on Twitter (www.twitter.com/wbasutin), so he really reached a lot of people about the Linkup.com contest. Awesome Bill, you twitter-stud, you.

7 users commented in " Peg is the Interim Winner, But There’s Still Time "

wwds said,

on May 1st, 2009 at 9:19 am

The problem with doing lists, like twitter’s #followfriday is that you always leave off some friends, like jacqui, conrad, Erin, Gayle, Diana as well as Oprah, Ashton and ChrisBrogan. I am hoping they all forgive me and try a bit harder….

Bill Austin said,

on May 1st, 2009 at 10:59 am

It has been a really busy week. Last night we did a live TV event to get people help stopping home foreclosures in Arizona. We had 12 HUD Certified foreclosure counselors in our call center in addition to our regular staff and took over 700 calls in a couple of hours.

My friends looking for work have been a bit neglected today but I will try to send out a few local searches to Scottsdale Job Network members and twitter before I get back to work.

wwds said,

on May 1st, 2009 at 11:07 am

Thanks Bill. Job seekers all over the USA are thanking you too. It helps them to see how to use the LINKUP.com job search engine in other ways instead of simply typing in their job title.

Peg Mulligan said,

on May 2nd, 2009 at 1:00 pm

Hi G.L.,

I just want to thank you again, a bit more officially, for the lifetime family story here, priceless, indeed. As a mom, I couldn’t have been more pleased with your graph, showing Jimmy’s quote. (Long after this recession has passed, I will remember the fun moment seeing Jimmy’s “noble” ambitions, recorded for posterity…)

As a consultant and job-seeker, I am grateful for the support you are giving lots of your followers on Twitter, here on your blog & there…but more importantly, through the great career tips you provide on a regular basis, as well as the ability your Linkup job search engine gives us to explore the hidden job market.

Thanks again for providing a keeper Mulligan-family moment via your graph and for your helpful career development tips and job-seeking services.

–Peg Mulligan (the “King’s Mom”)

wwds said,

on May 2nd, 2009 at 2:38 pm

Peg…you have really had some fun with LINKUP. Which is exactly what I wanted to happen. Far too many job seekers, who don’t search for jobs very often, simply type in their job title to find a job opening. At LINKUP.com, because we get the jobs ONLY from company websites, it is possible to get even more job information….which makes the job search better and more fun.
You may well be the winner of the overall contest….but you have some real good challengers. I think the contestants who actually helps someone get a job will be high on my list…but if any one can get some of the gigantic twitter people to twitter about LINKUP…and show people the way….those folks would be up on my list too. Know @chrisBrogan or @guyKawasaki???

Exposing the Hidden Job Market with LinkUp Job Search Engine « Peg Mulligan’s Blog said,

on May 2nd, 2009 at 5:34 pm

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