The internet provides many popular social networking choices today, such as Youtube, MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook, to name a few, but if you are not careful, what you put out there about yourself can harm your chances of getting that dream job.
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Internet Social Networking-How It Can Affect You
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Tags: career planning, Career tips, Choosing a career, Communications, job seekers, Networking, networking choices, Recruiters, resume writing, resumes, Social Networking, unemployed
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Beware Of Scammers In Your Job Search!
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009As if we didn’t have enough things to worry about these days, please proceed carefully with your job search. Law enforcement officials recently began to warn job seekers to be careful because there are criminals posing as employers asking for copies of applicants’ personal credit reports. As we all know, credit reports contain a plethora of personal background information such as current and previous addresses, social security numbers, bank and credit card account numbers, job history, and other details that are valuable to scam artists.
Tags: career planning, Communications, Consumer Affairs Department, Headhunters, Interiewing, job search, job seekers, job transition, layoffs, Networking, Social Networking, unemployed
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How Much Time Should We Be Spending On Social Networking?
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
As President and Founder of a recruiting firm and a Staffing Success Trainer I often get asked, “How much time should my company be spending on social networking?” or “Should we get involved with social networking?” With the explosive emergence of social networking sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more…as recruiters it is imperative that we get on this train immediately. Feel free to add managing communication to this new media audience to your job description. However, random monitoring of social sites can be extremely distracting. Even more, is it time to hire a Social Network Administrator for your office?
Tags: Add new tag, Communications, Headhunters, Media, Networking, Placement Agencies, Recruiters, Recruiting, Social Networking, Staffing, Staffing Agencies
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