Talent Alley

A study by Citibank recently showed that small businesses aren’t using the web to nearly they extent that they “should.”  Commenting on the study, Jason Fall for Social Media Explorer summed up the prevailing attitude this way: Wanna know what real businesses are doing with digital marketing? Here’s a few of the findings: 81 percent don’t (that means [...]

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The New York Times reported today that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) settled a case brought by an employee who was fired for criticizing her supervisor on Facebook. The employee’s manager viewed a post that the woman made from her home on her personal Facebook account, took offense at the criticism and fired the employee [...]

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Every hiring manager I’ve spoken with has a story about the perfect job candidate whose pending job offer disappeared after a quick perusal of the candidate’s Facebook profile. Off color comments in status updates. Photos of candidates drinking, smoking assorted substances or engaged in sexually explicit behaviors. Racist, sexist or vulgar references. You name, it [...]

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Looking for work in a miserable economy can be traumatic, ego-bruising and depressing. Even highly experienced and skilled individuals will likely face repeated rejection as they try to find a new job, leading to self-doubt, despondency and despair. I was reminded of the frustration that job seekers face when I received a phone call this [...]

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The Job Shopper was invited to join this year’s American Advertising Federation Career Day in Cleveland to share our perspectives on the impact and importance of social media for new job seekers. The audience of approximately 100 recent or pending college graduates gathered at The Plain Dealer’s headquarters in downtown Cleveland to listen to an assortment [...]

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I received an email this morning from the CEO of a local technology company who is in the process of hiring a controller for his company. He forwarded an email from a prospective candidate whose career halting initial message was: PLease see attached resume . My slasry requirements would be in the middle of your [...]

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The dynamic is supposed to be that you’re pushing upper management to embrace social media and those ludites won’t budge. The reality is that your boss has probably read about Twitter and thinks that your company should start tweeting. About what, nobody knows. Now it’s fallen to you to tweet and finding pithy 127 character [...]

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The website Technorati claims that there are more than 100 millions blogs crowding the web. The types of blog vary enormously ranging from personal diaries, fiction, hobbies, experiences, opinions (professional and personal), and reviews. Many professionals have created blogs as a way to stay active and involved in their professions when between jobs, to keep their [...]

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Most employers don’t get much practice interviewing potential hires and rely on the historical standby questions that are detailed in every job interview book ever written. However, those managers who are more adept and skilled at interviewing candidates will likely adopt behavioral interviewing to sort out their prospects. Behavioral interviewing cuts through the banalities of [...]

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Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook are all terrific ways of marketing a company…but they are also terrific ways to waste time.  Social media accounts for approximately 22% of our online time according to the social media examiner.  It’s doubtful that all that time is spent after work hours or on work related tweets.  Almost certainly people [...]

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