Tag Archive: social media

Job Hunting? Does HR look at your MySpace page?

In the competitive and costly world of recruiting, companies are doing everything they can to find out who they are hiring. They will spend sometimes thousands of dollars invistigating potential hires. I’ve known employers to do criminal background checks, calling neighbors, previous employers and even current employers. Some even want to know the status of [...]

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Harder to push than pull

In my last post, I discussed some tools for managing the information that interests you. Now we move on to adding your own information to the stream. There are hundreds if not thousands of web applications out there, I, of course, don’t use them all. I started with one, them tried a couple more. Now [...]

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Did you just call me a “Twit”?

The following was posted previously by me at http://crt-tanaka.blogspot.com/ for lack of a better home. ++++++ 30 years ago it was hard to get information from outside your immediate area, greatly more difficult was getting information from across the globe. The globe itself was in the way… Now you can send and receive information on [...]

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