Monday, 30 January 2012

Importance of LinkedIn

If you have not created a LinkedIn Account already, this link I'm posting will convince you to do so. LinkedIn is becoming one of the most-used business networking sites in the world. When you meet business executives who are older than your parents and they are using this to network, so should you.

Social Technology Review - Robin Wilding, March 2011

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

More Employers Use Social Networks to Check Out Applicants

This is a very interesting article from the New York Times. There are some shocking statistics from 2009 showing that around 45% of employers, which is double the percentage than the year prior, are using social networking sites to screen possible job candidates.
Maybe it's time to revisit your tagged photos on your pages!        

New York Times Article Written by Jenna Wortham, 2009

Saturday, 21 January 2012

Welcome!

Hello everyone!

Thank you for checking up on this blog. This blog will be about how using social media can help or hurt you on your journey of finding a career. Since technology and social media have advanced so rapidly over the past few years, we all realize how powerful these public pages can become. You would be hard pressed to find anyone without either a Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or Linked In account. Many people have all of these! So with that being said, throughout the next few months I will be posting information about how these forms of social media are affecting people in the workplace. I encourage and appreciate feedback and responses to any posts.
*YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO UNDERESTIMATE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS ISSUE.*