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Would You Accept a Friend Request From Your Ex-Boss?
It's no secret that social networking sites can cause some serious stress in the workplace. In some cases, there's anxiety over whether you should share your Facebook or Twitter accounts with job recruiters. In other cases, well-crafted online profiles might give you a leg up with potential employers.
Our Review of Beatles Rock Band, Clooney Has a Naked Man Fan, and Using Facebook Instead of 911?!
Beatlemania returns today as The Beatles: Rock Band hits stores, and we're here with GeekSugar's review of the hotly anticipated new game! Plus, watch cute clips of George Clooney's indecent proposal and David Beckham with his family on Ellen. All that plus two Australian girls who got lost and instead of calling the police, they updated their Facebook statuses to get rescued.
Ask Savvy: Recruiter Asked For My Facebook, Should I Send It?
Dear Savvy,
I was considering applying for a job in the online social media industry, but got turned off when I noticed the listing asks for a cover letter, resume, writing and blog samples, and a Facebook page link. I'm fully aware that employers use Facebook and Google to research candidates, but I don't like the fact that they want to scope me out before they meet me. I'm smart, qualified, have relevant experience and I have a fairly normal Facebook, but would feel funny sharing it with a potential employer.
How Do You Communicate With Friends While You're at Work?
How Do You Communicate With Friends While You're at Work?
Email
Instant messaging
Social sites like Facebook and Twitter
Phone
Text messaging
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Applicant Tweets Herself Out of a Job
We’ve been talking lately about what not to do in an interview, but a recent Internet phenomenon got me thinking about what not to do during your job search in general. As Connor Riley found out the hard way, the Internet is not exactly, um, a private place to express your honest feelings about your quest for new employment.
Connor’s little slip-up is (unfortunately for her) a good example of the catch-22 of our social-networking-heavy culture.
Your Online Reputation Could Actually Help You Get a Job
Many of you have used social networking sites for professional networking, and we know that employers utilize these sites to serve their own purposes, too. A new CareerBuilder survey found that 22 percent of employers are clicking through the Internet looking for information on job candidates, and while many discovered information that caused some applicants to lose their places in the running, it's not all bad news.
About a quarter of those employers who have plugged applicants names into Google actually found information that made them feel more confident about typing up offer letters.
Get Employers' Attention by Creating an Ad on Facebook
Self-marketing is a crucial part of gaining employment — you know you're awesome and would do the best job ever, but you must convince potential employers that you're worthy to be on payroll. First, you need to get yourself in the door, and for new college graduates lacking experience, this can be a difficult task.
One Day, One Job got creative when brainstorming job hunting tactics, and challenged their recently graduated readers to a job search experiment on Facebook.
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8 Successful Companies That Are Still Hiring
Personal experience and news reports might tell us that nobody is hiring right now, but Fortune says to think again. The magazine recently released its 40 Under 40 — a list of the hottest rising stars in business — and many of them are looking to expand their teams. To see who these entrepreneurs are and what they’re looking for, read more.
Back to Basics: Interview Dos and Don'ts, Part 1
I recently taught a workshop on interviewing to 400 high-schoolers. Since teenagers tend to have pretty limited experience with interviews, not to mention notoriously short attention spans, I had to find a way to keep the information short, sweet, and simple. But in doing so, I realized I was getting a pretty nice refresher myself.
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