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When Random Texts Make For Good Blog Fodder

A blog fodder heaven

This weekend I watched my 13 year old niece (not pictured above) send about 75 text messages during an entire soccer game like it was going out of style.  I like to think that I’m pretty savvy with technology, particularly text messaging when I talk about mobile recruiting, mobile HR, and mobile jobs.  In the course of […]

Free Recruiting Model Changes Industry Fuels Economy

Free Recruiting Strategy Model

HCM Abuzz Over Free Recruiting Strategy   While the human capital management industry has been abuzz by the recent acquisitions of Rypple to Salesforce, SuccessFactors to ADP, Jobs2Web to SuccessFactors and most recently VisualCV by Talent Technology, there is a visible shift happening in the world of human resources technology and HCM.  VC firms and […]

4 Tips on How to Use Facebook at Work and Not Get Fired

4 Ways to Avoid Getting Fired for Facebook Use

This post was first published over on SmartBrief’s Social Media blog where I am a regular contributor. They happen to be pretty awesome with over 4 million email subscribers. Be sure to check them out. 4 Ways to Avoid Getting Fired for Facebook Use Social media has arrived and has seeped into every facet of […]

Social Recruiting on Facebook Increases Brain Size

Facebook Makes You Smarter 

New Facebook Changes: Advertising on Facebook Last week Facebook began adding paid ads to user’s feeds which, like all new Facebook changes, caused quite the uproar.  Now, if a user likes a Facebook Page, updates from that page can now be featured as a form of advertising.   These featured stories are now suggestively placed within a Facebook […]

3 LinkedIn Profile Setting Secrets for the Job Seeker

Tips for LinkedIn Job Seekers to Stand Out

**This is a guest post written by Joshua Waldman author of “Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies.”  Why are we even talking about social media in the context of job search?  Simple!  Recruiters are using social media and recruiting to find talent. In fact, several surveys in the last few years point to a very […]

Looking for a Job During the Holidays? 5 Ways to Integrate Social Media

Career Networking During the Holidays

This post was first published over on SmartBrief’s Social Media blog where I am a regular contributor.  They happen to be pretty awesome with over 4 million email subscribers.  Be sure to check them out.   We are just 9 short days away from the Christmas holiday which is rather inconvenient if you are looking […]