What to do if a Job Interviewer asks for Your Facebook Password

A new controversy has the business world a-buzz. It has to do with Facebook, and the fact that some employers are asking prospective employees for their Facebook passwords. Megan Garber, writing for The Atlantic, reports that “Apparently, for the 95 percent of employers who use social media sites to glean information about job candidates, the [...]

Could Facebook help more in a job search than Linkedin?

Linkedin is a professional network. Facebook is a social network. So which will get you your next job? Turns out, they both can! Bryce Christiansen from Balanced WorkLife brings us an interesting perspective on how Facebook can be more useful than Linkedin for landing a great job. Bryce gives lots of ways that Facebook can [...]

What Employers Should be Telling Jobseekers

Check out this post by our Strategic Recruiting Manager and social networking expert, Kelly Dingee:  7 Things Employers Should Tell Job Seekers About How to Get Considered. She’s got great tips for how to make yourself more noticeable and desirable to the people who are looking to hire you.  If anyone knows how to find [...]

Top 10 job search best practices

One of the most challenging aspects of searching for a job in today’s tough market is finding “best practices” for getting to the interview stage.  Brenda Neckvatal spelled it out nicely in a post on the Examiner.   She recommends 10 practices that will improve your odds of landing an interview, starting with having a target list [...]

Research Your Boss, Before Your Interview

Hank called me on Tuesday last week. He had an interview scheduled for Friday. I like helping give people the inside story on potential jobs, but I had never heard of the company where he was interviewing. Bummer. But that was no problem, because Hank was way ahead of me. He had already used Linkedin to [...]

7 Tips for Connecting via Social Media

We are always saying that social media is vital to your success as a jobseeker. Soren Gordhamer has some great ideas for how to use social media effectively. He wrote 7 lessons for better networking using social media. Here are my 3 favorites: Contact a person through their “preferred communication channel” – it might be [...]

Don’t Post your Birthday or Hometown on Facebook

Social Media is supposed to be personal: a way for former, current and future friends to find, greet and meet you. But Shirley George Frazier warns that we may be giving away too much information. She says that posting your hometown and birth date on your social media sites is dangerous! It gives outside sources [...]