JobAngels is a new organization whose mission is to bring people together in a community setting where each person commits to a single goal: to help just one person find gainful employment.
Founder Mark Stelzner said the worsening economy was his main impetus for creating the movement.
“I was eating breakfast and thinking about the economy,” Stelzner said on his blog. “We were in the throws of a debilitating week of job loss announcements and things looked to be worsening in all sectors. I had been spending a bit of time on Twitter and had accumulated about 700 followers, a large percentage of whom are experts and professionals in the HR sector. So I wondered, what if each of those followers helped just one person find a job?”
So Stelzner tweeted this: “Was thinking that if each of us helped just 1 person find a job, we could start making a dent in unemployment. You game?”
Thus began the movement, which currently has almost 2,500 followers on Twitter. With the aid of his JobAngels, Stelzner shouts out hundreds of tweets from people passing along job notices or volunteering their own skills to help polish resumes or beef up interviewing responses.
The message has become viral, with many media outlets picking up on the story within weeks of the launch.
Click here to become a follower of JobAngels on Twitter and to start spreading the job goodness around.
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