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Tips for Keeping Costs Low When Starting Your Small Business
March 29, 2013 by William FriersonAre you trying to open a small business and need to save time and money? The following post offers tips that can help.
Time and money seem to be the two perpetual challenges every entrepreneur and business owner faces. I speak from experience; I started a successful small retail business while attending college in the United States and now am juggling two other startups as I finish my degree in Germany. What I’
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6 Ways to Use Facebook Advertising for Recruiting
January 07, 2013 by William Frierson
Employers who use social media for advertising may be interested in the following post, which shares ways to recruit with Facebook.Facebook, like recruiting, seems to be ever evolving. While many are up in arms over the changing page and fan terms, a new “custom audience” feature can be used for social recruiting in entirely new ways.
Essentially, custom audience campaigns are highly targeted campaigns that go out to laser focused candidates and prospects. Since marketers and recruiters follow very similar guidelines when reaching out to their audiences, here are 6 ways you can use the new feature in your social recruiting strategies:
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5 Ways Your Online Lifestyle Can Ruin A Career Opportunity
January 04, 2013 by William FriersonIf you are a job seeker who uses social media, be very careful about your perception online. The following post examines ways that employers might view you negatively based on your social media profiles.Many people want to keep their “work lives” and their “personal lives” separate. However, with social media it has become more and more difficult to keep the two worlds from colliding. Today’s employers will look through social profiles in order to help them decide who would be a good candidate for a job position. The amount of information your publish on social media sites makes it easy for potential employers to have access to your personal life, which could turn out to be bad for you if they happen to spot some things that will turn them off, and ruin your opportunity to get the job.
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“Why Did You Leave Your Last Position?”
December 07, 2012 by William FriersonAs you practice questions for your next interview, consider that an employer may ask you why you want to leave your last or current position. The following post has advice on how to answer this question.A common question asked during an interview is “Why Did You Leave Your Last Position?” A friend of mine who worked in Iran during the 1979 revolution offers an easy answer: his resume always says “civil unrest.” While that is a concrete and completely honest answer, most of us don’t usually have such a perfect answer when asked that question during an interview. Futhermore, the answer can be even more difficult if you are still in your current position and interviewing for a new position at another company.
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Lessons Learned by Employers Impacted by Hurricane Sandy
November 26, 2012 by Steven Rothberg
Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin of CareerXroads
By Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin of CareerXroads
Four weeks after Sandy, life is getting back to normal – or is it? Walking the dog around a relatively unscathed block of homes in central NJ (miles from the shore), reminders are everywhere. Tons of debris in front of every home (more than 40 homes); the noise of still more 75-foot oak trees being cut while leaning precariously over homes rends the air; blue tarps draped over roofs (5 homes) that were speared with limbs weighing tons; and a flatbed truck finally easing up behind a flattened neighbor’s car (where my 75 foot oak fell). I check to make sure he doesn’t accidentally take the new car next to it.
Sandy was a storm that has little comparison even to Katrina although we can take some comfort that lessons learned from that catastrophic event seven years ago were likely responsible for preparations last month that saved lives – response speed and pre-positioning among them. Continue Reading
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Some College Students and Young Professionals Willing to Sacrifice Salary for Social Media
October 04, 2012 by William FriersonIt seems that social media has become so powerful that some college students and young professionals don’t mind sacrificing their earning potential(s) to connect to the Internet. Learn more in the following infographic. Continue Reading
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41% of Students Usually Have 3+ Devices Connected to Internet At Same Time
August 01, 2012 by Steven Rothberg
There’s little doubt that there’s been an explosion in usage of bandwidth on college campuses nationwide due to the rapid increase in number of smartphones, tablets, and digital media players used by students. It was only a couple of years ago when few students had smartphones or iPad-type tablets but now almost all have one or both.The rapid growth in these Internet connected devices has led to significant bandwidth problems for information technology departments at the colleges and universities. Consider: Continue Reading
