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Facebook? What If HR Asked For Your PASSWORD!?!

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(For the newest article regarding this debate posted by Mashable, click here)

If you’re alive today, you probably have a Facebook account. Many people spend HOURS every day on Facebook. It’s accessible on cell phones from remote locations along with every other place. AND!, to top it off, when you’re not saying something about yourself, chances are, someone else is mentioning you or tagging you — which links to your profile as well.

Facebook profiles are becoming a common part of the employee background review. Are you prepared for this? Many HR Professionals stand up and scream their heads off at the thought of this. What about employment laws and privacy acts!!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

None of that is relevant when you, the job seeker signs a waiver granting permission. Let’s take it a step further now. What if an employer asked for your Facebook password.

YUP.

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Five Steps For Taking Your Career From Denial to Victory

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Do you have a feeling that something is wrong in your career, yet you have not done anything about it? Do you feel like something is missing in your career, but you’d prefer not to think about it?

This is called denial; when you know something is not right, but you are not acting to change it.

Denial in your career can be good. If you focused on every little thing that bothered you such as getting up early everyday, dealing with difficult co-workers, or doing work that doesn’t thrill you, your career would be hard and not much fun.
Denial works against you when your career changes for the worse, and you do not do anything about it. This is when career distress wins.

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Start Your New Job Off Smoothly With These Top 10 Tips

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You’ve landed the position you were hoping for.  

CONGRATULATIONS!

Now, let’s get to work. You may understand the industry and the position but you’ll need to make a good, long lasting impression in order to flourish. Take these top ten tips with you to your new place of employment to ensure a long and progressive experience.

1.  Get to know the people.  Show an interest.  Learn their names (you would be surprised as to how many people don’t do this).  You have time to learn the job and when you know your colleagues, it makes learning and doing the job so much easier.

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New Job? Get A Head Start Now.

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About 40% of executives who change jobs or get promoted fail in the first 18 months. One way to avoid that is to lay some crucial groundwork before your first day.

From CNN.com
By Anne Fisher, contributor

FORTUNE – Dear Annie: I’m starting a new job in about two weeks as head of a somewhat troubled division at my current employer’s biggest competitor. It’s a larger role than I’ve had so far in my career, and I’m pretty excited about it, but it comes with some significant challenges, since the business I’ll be running has been hit hard by the recession and the European debt crisis, revenues and earnings are down, and morale is in the tank.

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New Survey Reveals 61% Of US Workers Are Satisfied With Their Current Job

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Satisfaction.Some people can’t seem to get any. Others are overwhelmingly content. But how happy are people at their current jobs?

A new CareerBuilder survey revealed some surprising results on just how much workers enjoyed their position, whether they felt under-employed and if their current employer had ample career advancement opportunities for them. The survey was conducted by Harris Interactive from Nov. 9 to Dec. 5, 2011, of more than 7,700 full-time workers across industries and company sizes.

Let’s get to the results.

Sixty-one percent of workers reported that they were satisfied with their job overall, with health-care workers reporting in at 67 percent satisfaction. Workers intransportation and utilities had the highest rate of job satisfaction with 67 percent. Those least satisfied in their job? Retail workers. Nearly a quarter of workers in that industry found their job unsatisfactory.

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STOP! Follow These Steps BEFORE Updating Your LinkedIn Profile!

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Thinking about tweaking your LinkedIn profile? May I suggest turning off your notifications? If you just got a new job, or a promotion, you might want people notified about your update. However, if you’re strategizing a job change, or tweaking your profile over several days, you might not want your boss people to be notified about your update(s).

Here’s how to turn the notifier off:

  1. Go to LinkedIn Home and login.
  2. Click your name in the upper right-hand part of the page.
  3. Click “Settings.”
  4. Click “Profile” in the lower left quadrant of the page.
  5. Under “Privacy Controls” click “Turn on/off your activity broadcasts.”
  6. Uncheck the box.
  7. Click “Save Changes.”

Super simple and worth all 7 steps!! Every time you change something on your profile, a notification goes out to ALL of your contacts, letting them know that there has been a change to your profile …and highlights where the change occurred.

Don’t be the guy flooding the status gates with useless content!

Get in the know!

Staffing Firms Add Jobs in October

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Seasonally adjusted employment data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that staffing firms added 15,000 new jobs (0.7%) from September to October. In a year-to-year comparison, temporary help employment for the month was 7.9% higher than October 2010.

U.S. nonfarm payroll employment added 80,000 jobs in September, largely driven by employment increases in the private sector. Modest job growth was reported in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, health care, and mining. Government employment continued to decline. The overall unemployment rate dropped slightly from 9.1% to 9.0%.

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Networking Event Introductions:: Be Specific About What You Want!

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Picture this :: You’re at a networking event and the room is full of unfamiliar faces. It’s announced that everyone will introduce themselves and have 60 seconds to sell themselves.  As you’re sitting, unprepared, trying to conjure up a fantastic and memorable spill, you hear the woman next to you say,

Hi! My name is Mary and I’m amazing! I will make your business amazing! I will teach you how to live! I bring the “amaze” to “amazing!”. Let me show you how to make your business, whatever it is, the most amazing and successful business in the market! I will double your revenues and your life will love you again! I’m Mary and I’m amazing. 

This woman is jumping up and down, waving her arms and grinning ear to ear. What do you think of them? Sure, they’re memorable (to a point) but, what do they DO?!

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Dear Passive Guy:: It’s Time To Disagree & Speak Up! It’s Healthy For Your Career!

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Have you ever experienced being in a meeting? The manager says something and then asks the question: “Are we all agreed on this?” Everyone in the room nods their head in unison and upon leaving the room, the same people who said they agreed are the same people who begin to complain about the decision?

Most companies are so sensitive about conflicts. In fact many business
organizations I know want conflict avoidance and engage in conflict resolutions right away the moment they sense conflict happening.

This is NOT a good thing and I will tell you why!

I am not referring to petty conflicts (who gets the better chair or who got the stapler without returning it). What I am referring to is another kind of conflict called meaningful conflicts. Meaningful work conflict is a cornerstone in healthy, successful organizations. Conflict is necessary for effective problem solving and for effective interpersonal relationships. Most people miss this for the simple reason that they look at all kinds of conflict as stressful and they avoid it.

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