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Think it’s a good idea to block your employees from social networks? Think again.

March 12, 2010

Cartoon by Hugh MacLeod Nearly a year ago I was a guest on the Gravity Free Radio Show with Erik Wolf + Stephanie Frost and was asked my thoughts on employers’ fears about their employees being active on social networking sites. I stumbled upon a fantastic article on Advertising Age yesterday that outlines all of the [...]

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To all the naysayers

March 9, 2010

Cartoon by Hugh MacLeod Yes, you CAN get a job on Twitter. I HAVE PROOF. Last Tuesday morning I woke up waayyyy too early so I grabbed my iPhone and scanned Tweetdeck while deciding whether to go ahead and get up or try and go back to sleep for a bit. I happened to see a tweet [...]

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How do you deal with life??

February 18, 2010

Cartoon by Hugh MacLeod I’m going to make this short and sweet. It is 4:49 a.m. and I just bounced out of bed to write a blog post. ??? It occurred to me that perhaps the reason I’ve gone from blogging almost daily to hardly at all over the last couple of months is that writing [...]

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What is the most efficient way to sort a million integers?

January 21, 2010

In a recent post I announced that I would start profiling job seekers as a way to help. One of the things I ask of them for these profiles is to one of the following questions (these were taken copied borrowed from the extensive list of questions that Google has been known to ask in [...]

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Announcing a new series featuring profiles of job seekers!

January 18, 2010

I have said in numerous posts that it’s not a recruiter’s job to find you a job. That’s your job. And…this is something I feel strongly about: It’s your career. OWN IT. To clarify: recruiters are paid to find the right person for a particular job, and the specific nature of the work that I [...]

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What *not* to say on Twitter if you want to get a job (or keep the one you have)

January 16, 2010

These are actual tweets that I found by doing a few simple key word searches on Twitter…this is a friendly reminder that what happens on the internet STAYS on the internet! Think before you tweet… thank goodness my boss is making things easy, he told me to pretend to do work so he can mark [...]

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Funny things my grandmother said

December 26, 2009

My grandmother is 87 years old, and she’s one of the most opinionated people I know. She says a lot of really funny things, and I think what’s funniest is that she truly doesn’t realize the irony. Anyway, it’s the holidays, and everyone is thinking and talking about family, so I thought I’d share a [...]

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10 words + phrases I don’t want to hear in 2010

December 26, 2009

It’s been quite a year. I think 2009 has been a year that we won’t soon forget for a large number of reasons. Most of them not so great…though I think that the many unfortunate events of this year have inspired and spawned a lot of excellent ideas and movements. I won’t lie. I’ll be [...]

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