Talent Culture

JUNE 26, 2011

Monster.com just launched a new Facebook application called BeKnown that lets users create a separate professional identity profile while on the Facebook platform. You may be thinking, “I already have a LinkedIn profile for professional networking. Why do I need another one?&# While it’s true that most professionals have been using LinkedIn as their main professional networking site, LinkedIn only has one million users compared to Facebook’s seven million.

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JUNE 16, 2011

'As luck would have it I arrived in Madrid on June 12, the very last day of this two-month-old grassroots movement occupation of the Puerta del Sol square. But as the sign says, "we are not going away, we are moving to your conscience." MADRID While in Madrid on business, I took the opportunity that I was staying downtown to visit the nearby Puerta del Sol camping ground of the Indignados or "Outraged Citizens.

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Talent Culture

JUNE 29, 2011

I’ve been writing about employers who Google candidates prior to interviewing them or hiring them for some time, but the stakes on using information found online to make a hiring decision just got higher. AOL recently reported that the Federal Trade Commission recently granted background check company Social Intelligence permission to search information from people’s social networking sites as part of routine background checks, stating the checks are in compliance with the Fair Credi

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Talent Culture

JUNE 28, 2011

According to a recent survey of close to 2,400 US employees conducted by Mercer , half of US employees are not happy in their jobs. Here are some other interesting stats from the survey: Thirty-two percent of US workers are currently considering leaving their organization, up from 23% in 2005. Twenty-one percent are not looking to leave but view their employers unfavorably and have low scores on key measures of engagement.

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Talent Culture

JUNE 27, 2011

I’ve known a lot of men who were sensitive about their hair. Guys who didn’t want to part with their long locks for the sake of an office job, men who were concerned they didn’t have enough hair, and others who checked out the gray around the temples and thought about coloring it. But men rarely talk to me about their hair prior to an interview and if you think about it, that’s as good a time as any to discuss the topic.

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Talent Culture

JUNE 6, 2011

Representative Anthony Weiner has fessed up and admitted that he was the one sending lewd photos of himself on Twitter and that his account was never hacked. I write a lot about managing your online presence and digital dirt during a job search but the same rules apply for people who are trying to hold on to the jobs they have. Here are 5 tips for Weiner and anyone else out there dabbling in social media or even just corresponding via email.

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Talent Culture

JUNE 6, 2011

You could say that Sarah Palin had a bad interview experience last week when she visited Boston and was asked about Paul Revere’s famous ride. Here are four interview tips for Palin and anyone else trying to perform better during an interview. Research the company you are meeting with before the interview. You can find company information on LinkedIn, TheVault, Hoovers, Glassdoor, and AnnualReports.com.

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Talent Culture

JUNE 22, 2011

According to a recent LinkedIn networking survey , globally and in the U.S. men are savvier online professional networkers than women. LinkedIn defines online professional networking savviness as the ratio of connections that men have to connections that women have and the ratio of male members on LinkedIn to female members. Some of the survey results may surprise you; according to their data men in the cosmetics industry are better networkers than their female counterparts but women in the ranc

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Talent Culture

JUNE 30, 2011

Time magazine editor-at-large and MSNBC analyst Marc Halperin , botched an interview yesterday on Morning Joe when he made a derogatory remark about President Obama during a discussion about Obama’s press conference earlier this week. Halperin thought he could say what he was really thinking about the president and his speech and “take it back&# at the same time because of the network’s 7 second delay.

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Talent Culture

JUNE 10, 2011

I received a LinkedIn invitation today that read: John Doe (not his real name) has indicated you are a colleague from Pfizer Corporation (not his real company). Here’s the problem. I don’t know John Doe and I never worked for Pfizer. John Doe is gaming the system to send an invite. But how is this an attractive offer? I don’t know this person and his strategy for getting to me is sneaky and a little bit creepy.

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Talent Culture

JUNE 24, 2011

I try to follow social media trends and the impact it has on the world of work as best I can but lately I’m finding it hard to keep up with all the career-killing mistakes people are making due to inappropriate tweets. The latest Twitter “whoops&# I just heard about belongs to Scott Bartosiewicz , an employee at New Media Strategies, the marketing firm representing Chrysler.

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Talent Culture

JUNE 26, 2011

According to a recent survey conducted by YourTango and ForbesWomen, 75 percent of women surveyed said they would not marry someone without a job and 65 percent said they wouldn’t get married if they were the one who was unemployed. But 91 percent of single women said they would marry for love over money. Huh? Some of the other survey stats intrigued me as well including: 55 percent of women would give up their careers to take care of children if their partners asked them to but only 28 pe

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