Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 - Blog, Employment Law, Facebook

Employment Law: Facebook The modern trend of social media never fails to surprise or disappointment me. The latest shows that home insurers are now taking your Facebook profile into account when assessing your home insurance risk. But it was with regards HR and employment issues that I wrote Social Media Checklist, and the latest news [...]

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Saturday, February 13th, 2010 - Article, Social Media, career coaching, career management, employment, job application rejection, professionalism, recruitment, tutorial

Social Media Checklist If you are a Job Seeker wondering why you got rejected, Or an Executive wondering why head hunters don’t call? Its probably because of your (or lack of…) Social Media footprint! Solve the problem TODAY with Social Media Checklist If you are a job seeker, a skilled worker, or an executive thinking [...]

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Friday, August 21st, 2009 - Article, Social Media, career management, employment, job application, job search, tutorial

Social Media: screw or support your career? The social media revolution is being termed by some as the second industrial revolution. Facebook is now effectively the forth largest country in the world, although it is still smaller than China’s QZone at 300million; and it only took the iPod to reach 50million users in 3years, as [...]

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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 - career change, career transition, disciplinary procedure, job hunting, job search, legal, regulation, tutorial

Sacked Job Search photo credit: woodleywonderworks Rob asks: Can you be sacked for looking for another job? A friend of mine works nights and wants to go onto days as his wife is pregnant. His work wants him on nights and wont change anything for him so he has started to look for another job. [...]

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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 - career management, disciplinary procedure, discipline, employment

Facebook: employment liability We are on Facebook, the social network: you can find me here: http://profile.to/recruit/ A very socially cool website valued at over $1Bn US dollars, on Facebook you can: See comments from your friends and new people Play scrabble or poker Find out where people are right now What people think of others, [...]

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