Front page news in the Minneapolis newspapers over the past couple of days has been the killing of Katherine Ann Olson. While any murder is tragic, this one is noteworthy to employers and job seekers alike because it appears to be related to the victim's use of Craiglist to find a nanny position.

Ms. Olson was looking for a nanny job. She had successfully used Craigslist before and so searched it again. She found an ad of interest responded. She told her roommate that she was going to meet the family from the ad. After she didn't come home, police initiated a search and found her dead in the trunk of her car at a park in Burnsville, Minnesota late Friday night.

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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on October 29, 2007 at 9:43 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

New York state Attorney Generl Andrew Cuomo has launched an investigation into social networking site Facebook after New York undercover investigators posed as children as were allegedly solicited by sexual predators.

Cuomo said that agents posing as children were solicited by adult sexual predators and that the agents could easily access pornographic photos. Agents contacted Facebook but their complaints were often ignored. Facebook, to its credit, did take down some of the offending material and close the accounts of some of the predators but to its shame it apparently failed to do so on all and perhaps most of the time.

Facebook is only three years old. It was founded in 2004 in the dorm room of Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, and opened its site to everyone in 2006. The company says it now has more than 42 million users. Unfortunately, some of those users are scum and we should be thankful that Cuomo and his staff are working to keep this wonderful resource as safe as possible for all.

Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on September 26, 2007 at 5:23 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

Interesting post today at Recruiting.com that warns candidates to be wary of scams under which candidates are convinced to pay for information about employment opportunities. While some will infer that means that you should never pay for a job and that's technically true, it also isn't quite that simple.

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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on December 20, 2005 at 8:47 AM | Leave a Comment (0)