How Slack Can Help You Land Your Next Job
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Here's your Money Briefing for Thursday, June 2nd. I'm J.R. Whalen for The Wall Street Journal. You probably use Slack for communicating with your boss or your co-workers about work projects, but more people are using it to fast-track their job search.
The people who I talked to said that the hiring process can move really quickly, and that's a refreshing change from applying through more traditional means.
On today's show, our workplace reporter, Lindsay Ellis, will talk about how workers are using Slack to connect with people, including recruiters, outside their job. She'll tell us how it works after the break.
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Move over LinkedIn. For many people, Slack is their new go-to site for fast-tracking their job search. So how do Slack users, who usually just message their work colleagues, connect with people on the outside who are hiring?
How is Slack becoming a go-to platform for fast-tracking job searches?
WSJ Workplace reporter Lindsay Ellis looked into this, and she joins us with details. Hey, Lindsay, thank you so much for being here.
Thank you for having me.
So, Lindsay, Slack is used by millions of workers at companies to communicate with their colleagues, but it's usually a closed system where they can only connect with other employees. When do these external channels enter the picture?
So they've been on the scene for a number of years, but group administrators say their membership has way increased over the course of the pandemic. In part, they attribute that to the fact that traditional networking forums like monthly happy hours or professional conferences, those totally dropped off over the pandemic. So workers were looking for digital places to connect. And for some, Slack groups kind of filled this gap.
Okay, so let's talk about some of these channels. What areas do they cover and how would somebody gain access or gain entry to them?
Some of the channels are for niche professions. So I saw one, for example, for cybersecurity marketing or one for, you know, HR recruiters who focus on people who are right out of college. Other groups are for more professional affinity groups. There's one called Blacks in Technology, for example. There's a bunch for women, one called Women in Marketing. and so workers can join these groups that are for their kind of very niche professional identities or more broadly for their personal identities and how they intersect with work and joining these channels i mean there are a few steps there's the first is that you need to know what the groups are partly that information is spread by word of mouth within offices
Colleagues are telling each other about these platforms, inviting their coworkers to join. In other cases, you might search Google or LinkedIn to see what groups are available for your professional or personal niche. There's often a very brief application to join. You would have to input your name, email address, confirm you actually work in the field in question, and then users are emailed code to enter the group.
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