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Employers Using Social Media for Recruitment

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By Richard Cooley

Employers using Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter?

New channels that you can use to find a job…

With the advent of Social Media, the old methods of job search are changing. Employers are now just as likely to check your Facebook profile as to read your resume. Let’s look at how you can use  Facebook, Linked In and Twitter to expand your job search and make the most of your social media contacts.

With over 500 million users worldwide and 27 million users in the UK alone, Facebook is an extremely valuable social media platform that is increasingly being used by businesses not only for [Read more…] about Employers Using Social Media for Recruitment

Beat the Unemployment Blues

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Unemployment rates are still at decade highs and if you count discouraged workers who have given up looking for a job the rates can be as high as 16%. This means as many as 1 in 6 people are looking for a job. With odd like that stacked against you, you need to find an edge. Take some advice from Stephanie on how to stack the job hunting odds in your favor.  ~Tim McMahon, editor

 

 

By Stephanie Staszko

With unemployment rates soaring, the local job center has become a cattle market and a survival of the fittest has come into play when it comes to applying for jobs. Humans, as a race, do not take well to rejection and can be left feeling worthlessness and undervalued. Job seekers are often heard saying “I’ll never get a job”. If this mind-set is allowed to embed itself into the brain, job seekers can find themselves sinking into the black hole of unemployment with no glint of light on the horizon. In order to remain a valuable candidate to employers, they must beat the unemployment blues.

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