This role has been defined in a report published this month by Fast Future Research that identifies new jobs that will be in demand from 2020 to 2030. Driven by continuing rapid growth in use of the Internet and increasingly complicated and connected mobile devices, it's predicted that virtual clutter organising will emerge as a profession by 2015.

Virtual clutter organisers will look after our email, make sure our data is stored properly, and manager our electronic passwords and profiles.

This is not a job for a glorified admin assistant - an IT background is needed. As the Fast Future report states, "A Virtual Clutter Organiser will typically be an expert in data management, security and networking and operate in three different ways - offering a downloadable solution to reside on your electronic devices, providing an online Software as a Service (SaaS) solution and delivering a totally personalised service managing your data for you.

"....They scan everything, work through your emails, documents and online registrations and create a data management framework to hold your electronic information. They would install routines that guide the user to ensure data is stored properly as it is created and encourage deletion of redundant data."

I think this type of role will become indispensible to people, as it will help reduce the stress associated with information overload. Mind you, people will have to change their views on privacy, as they will be letting a stranger access some of the most sensitive and financially intimate parts of their lives.

And although virtual clutter organisers rely heavily on automated tools, it will require a real live person to interpret, analyse, consult and execute, so it's a job that will offer long-term prospects.

A content curator, according to Bhargava, "is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online. The most important component of this job is the word ‘continually.'... (It is s)omeone whose job it is not to create more content, but to make sense of all the content that others are creating. To find the best and most relevant content and bring it forward."

He predicts that the future of the social web will be driven by content curators, who "will help to add a voice and point of view to organizations and companies that can connect them with customers - creating an entirely new dialogue based on valued content rather than just brand created marketing messages."

There are already a few people performing this task for companies, and it will only grow in importance. The problem I see with content curating is that most companies find it hard to place much value on the role. Although it requires a skill set that combines the sharp mind of a research analyst with the communications flair of a journalist and the commercial nous of a marketer, curating content, like creating content, often attracts a wage more akin to a junior administrator.

Do you think there's a role for content curators? What should they be paid?

Full Story here: http://blog.s2m.com.au/index.php/2009/10/digital-jobs-of-the-future-part-1-content-curator/

David Jackson is managing director and principal talent broker for S2M Digital, www.s2m.com.au a recruitment agency specialising in the digital space.

He can be contacted at djackson@s2m.com.au.

1. LinkedIn
   1. Profile: Make sure your profile is complete with all of your work history, education details, blogs, avatar, interests and specialties. This is your digital CV and more often that not this will be what recruiters look for first.
   2. Connect to Recruiters: Seek out recruiters that have good reputations in your industry and connect with them.
   3. Public Profile: Make sure you allow a 'Full View' on your public profile settings. This is critical in allowing the search engines to index your profile. Recruiters use search strings via the search engines like google to hack into Linkedin and search profiles outside of their network. So if you want to be found and you don't have a big network switch this setting on. To do this you go to Edit My Profile > Edit Public Profile Settings > Full View. This is normally a default setting but just make sure.
   4. Recommendations: Request recommendations from present and past colleagues, managers, partners, direct reports and customers. Having a healthy set of recommendation from credible people adds a heap of value and could be the difference between receiving the call or not.
   5. Contact Settings: Make sure you select that you are interested in 'Career Opportunities' and 'Job Inquiries'
   6. Phone and Email: This is controversial and probably against Linkedin's terms of service but hey if you want to be found and contacted list your email and phone number in "headline" of your profile. If it is an issue Linkedin will contact you.
   7. Status Updates: This will keep you regularly in the news feed of the recruiters I advised you connect with previously. This also kind of gives them subtle reminders.
   8. Groups: Search the Group Directory and join Industry Groups, Groups created by companies you would like to work for or why not start a group yourself about a topic you are passionate and knowledgeable about. This is just another way for recruiters to evaluate your views on a particular subject and for you to build a network that you can share and learn with.
2. Twitter
   1. Profile: Complete your profile, ensure that your bio describes accurately who you are and what you do. My bio is 'CEO at 2Vouch and Social Recruiting Strategist.'
   2. Avatar: Have a picture of you as your avatar, so people know who they are building a relationship with.
   3. Hashtags: 'Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets' you can learn more about hashtags here. Use hashtags at the end of some of your tweets as recruiters can search for specific hashtags.
   4. Twitter Search: Recruiters will do searches using Twitter Search on key words. So if you are looking for a job as a creative director then I would suggest tweeting about the fact the ' you've been updating your creative portfolio'
   5. Follow: HR, recruiters, recruiting companies and employers in the areas you are looking for a job in. Now here I mean follow and engage in conversation and build a relationship, don't stalk if you really want to get value from twitter. As Boris talks about, some recruiters will look at the follow to following ratio and use that as a filtering tool.
3. Facebook
   1. Profile: complete your profile and ensure that you have the same detail as your Linkedin profile in the 'Info' part of your FB profile.
   2. Avatar: In my view, FB is a little more relaxed than Linkedin but if your looking for a job, I would ere on the side of caution and have a respectable looking avator on your profile.
   3. Status Updates: with so many social networks it's hard to keep up with them, so a cool service like Ping.fm allows you to update all of your social networks at once. Caution: don't tweet drunk as it will appear on your Linkedin status too. I've been there and it's not a good look.
   4. Fan Pages: Join the fan pages of companies that you are interested in working for. If they are being used correctly as a recruiting tool, then you'll be updated with opportunities that exist within that company, you can connect with and get advice from people who are currently working there and hopefully start to build a relationship with the recruiter at that company.
   5. Applications: Add job search applications: Cheezhead posted a great list of job search apps for FB here. For all the Aussies there is a SEEK one here
   6. Photos: well we've all heard a lot about this issue. Need I say more! Job seekers can rant about if it's ethical to look at photos etc whilst in the recruiting process but bottom line it happens. So once it's in the public domain, recruiters will find it. So keep your nudie and drunken shots on your hardrive.
4. RSS
   1. Use a RSS reader to get a live feed of jobs from the job boards that are relevant to you.
   2. There are a number of feed readers for RSS, Google Reader is an example
5. Website
   1. Your Name: Now this is not really 'social', but have your registered your name as the domain name? This is a personal branding issue and not my area of expertise but Dan Schawbel has a book called Me 2.0 that looks like a good read.
   2. Content: This should include your resume and links to your profiles on social networks.
6. Blog
   1. Subject Area: If you have an opinion on something that your are passionate about like your industry, cooking, sports etc blog about it. This ads another dimension to your social media footprint and gives recruiters a more complete picture of who you are.
   2. Contact details: Mare sure your contact details are visible and easily accessible.
   3. Blogging Platforms: there are a number of them but I find Wordpress easy to use

There are many other things that I would suggest you do in your job search like networking at industry events, and with past colleagues to gain referrals from them to recruiters and companies that may be hiring but this article is long enough already.

@rigesyounan