Social media has infiltrated every aspect of our lives and revolutionized the way we communicate. We can reunite with childhood friends, send messages to celebrities, and share ideas, photos, and videos to anyone, anywhere. So, it’s no surprise that recruiters and employers are turning to social media to find talent. Nine out of 10 employers…
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Employee experience can seriously impact your bottom line. The Employer Brand Index gives you insight into what talent really thinks about your company.
Twitter isn’t dumb if you are following smart people. In the job search, smart people work for companies you are targeting. In business, smart people are potential customers and clients. The trick is finding them, but it isn’t as hard as you may think. Here are 10 ways to find and follow people on Twitter:…
Got a LinkedIn profile? Congrats. Now, you’re only competing for attention with another billion users. By putting some time into building your profile, you can stand out from the crowd. We’ve put some of our tips into the infographic below. You may or may not reach perfection, but hopefully, you’ll get some ideas. Takeaways: Start…
Are you about to make a drastic life-changing decision? Before you quit your job, buy a bed-and-breakfast, or otherwise turn your life upside down, consider the following questions: Are you financially secure? Making a career change normally takes three to six months, and even under the best of circumstances, it’s a stressful process. The last…
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Over the last decade, how people discover new job opportunities has evolved dramatically. When was the last time that you looked at a newspaper to find your next job? These days, the majority of job searches are conducted online, spawning a whole new industry around job boards, recruitment websites and job posting platforms. However, with…
Okay, we get it: those embarrassing pics from that party during Freshman year aren’t going to go away (“I’m a hot mess – but I still look hot!”). Your contact info is on lockdown ever since that friend-of-a-friend started spamming you during your last days of AIM use in 2009. And you’ve gone completely off-the-radar,…
There’s been a lot of buzz over the past couple of years about employers checking potential employees’ Facebook pages. According to some research, 37% of employers checked out a candidate’s Facebook profile before hiring them, and half of candidates were rejected because of the content they found there. With somewhere around 1/7th of the world’s…
Hiring is becoming more of an art form rather than a run-of-the-mill activity performed by an HR Rep. There are metrics that determine what makes a viable candidate, a team of personalities who will be a part of the decision-making process, and more tests than you ever took in High School Geometry just to determine…
This infographic (from InternetServiceProviders) pits internships from Google and Facebook against each other to see which is better! Takeaways: Both companies have different missions – Google is information based, whereas Facebook wants to make the world more open. At Google, you receive free Androids – at Apple, it’s free iPhones and Macs – which would…