by Peter Lloyd for IT Experts, Job Hunting
Forewarned is forearmed. And we’ve all been forewarned: Watch what you post on Facebook.
A CareerBuilder survey found that 45% of employers use social networking sites to weed out job candidates. When evaluating candidates, 29% snoop around Facebook, 26% scout LinkedIn, and 21% check out MySpace. With six of us scrambling for every job out there, all it takes is a compromising picture to make you one of the five out.
This new investigative capability is especially bad news if you’re on an Information Technology job search. That’s because 63% of IT employers screen by social network activity—the highest level in the survey. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: drinking, drug testing, facebook, social networks, substance abuse
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
Since 1977, Cincinnati has celebrated Labor Day with a bang—a day-long festival and fireworks display called Riverfest. This year the big bang began around 9 PM and echoed off into the surrounding hills of the Ohio valley about 40 minutes later.
Many American might be surprised to learn that this worker’s holiday is an immigrant. An American labor leader imported it in 1882 from Canada. At that time, the idea of workers joining forces and speaking with a collective voice scared the bejeezus out of President Cleveland.
Something to think about as we search for jobs or wonder how long we’ll keep the one we have. The same goes for those of us looking for job candidates to hire or, more likely, how many, when, and which to let go. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: drug testing, freelance writing, Labor Day, Riverfest, Samuel Gompers, school bus, unemployment
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