Saturday, February 19, 2011

Employers see their social networking site

Enjoy the anonymity of the Internet on social networks? If you reveal a little more in Orkut, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube or blogspot? Extreme political views, photos, jokes, college preferences and more on the weekend?

An increasingly popular trend, graduates leave the universities and the prospect of his first interviews to close their social-networking sites. Reason: The Big Brother is watching. Job seekers are increasingly aware of everything that can be forwarded for each course in the online world, including e-mail gets.

These are not all paranoia. There is anecdotal evidence and some human resources speak to reporting it, corporate recruiters are looking for on Google potential employees, inmates who enter social networking sites to see the profile of a candidate, and to review the online world as another form references. This trend, combined with the growing population of sites like Orkut, Facebook and MySpace, has many young people uncomfortable and unsure of how to navigate a new world.

B-school heads and teachers begin to advise students on maintaining a professional presence on social networking sites, in e-mails, personal websites and blogs. Even if it is password protected, recruiters have profiles too, and can reach your audience.

In a survey by AfterCollege.com just over 70% of the 60 students carried out say that they still find the same things we've always done, even though the potential employers could take a look. About 20% of the 90 employers who previously answered the same survey say they investigate new hires to visit social networking sites. A substantial 6% of employers say they have decided not to someone what they saw online rent-based, but another 26% answered the same question, without comment.

To content Roberto Angulo AfterCollege.com Students should worry more than they are.

Career Success Factors

What employers are looking for potential employees?
The job online discussion forum has recently posted questions. Of course, each at a different place, a definite answer to this question is different. However, the network engineer or a fry cook staff and all employees that the employer could go some common source added.
The demand for skills for success

1. Basic skills of reading, writing, arithmetic! Believe it or not, not high school graduates (and some college graduates) good portion of the eighth graders may be at the level of multiplication in his head can not read. Employers can, and write coherently readable look for people who know the business environment in mathematics can be calculated (fractions, ratios, etc.) add to the input device technology and basic computer skills, and most of the capacity, modern underlying technology (faxes , basic word processing, etc., etc.), use computers tool is needed to succeed working on perfecting the basic skills.

2. Personal skills of potential employees must be paid well? Sun, he / she is positive, informative answers to your questions in a way? can offer perspectives on good customer service? Out of all 'the character, but a successful employee colleagues, a team member, load, management and customers, not confrontation, is able to communicate in a positive way. The opportunity to work with others for the success of any operation is a fundamental skill.

3. Work carried out successfully achieve professional commitment and requires a high degree of attention is the process. It is noted by many veteran programmers to the most important of the old GIGO garbage in, garbage out follow. If you give a little effort, you get bad results. Employer in a positive way, is to appear at any rapprochement with their passion and knowledge about the company know for employees who seek to introduce. And ways to support the work of the candidate and the assessment of their skills and experience you get closer. Candidate for low-power and passion to better technology as a dull candidate has a chance to get a job.

4. Job survival, and now layoffs are a hot topic during this period. Someone who does not often get the ax a question of numbers, but it is also often performance problems. Hat has always shown its value for the initiative, the company created a valuable asset, its staff workload in the normal or average described, the lower the employees have to do to this to happen. Survive through layoffs or job moves within the company, the leader of a consciously learned and successful techniques among professionals is a growing and successful.

5. All high-tech and engineering experts, specializing in development, as we all know, it's the actor, or you can in the current environment to burn. New technologies, new concepts applied to obtain, update existing skills in today's workforce is successfully essential. Constantly successful people to take the seminar to the classes, new products or releases, and other securities in their careers, to keep them learning new skills to achieve education for. Successful people are lifelong learners. Employers and training necessary to seek to meet the needs of their people.

6. Professional development, career development, professional development is different. In the course of professional development planning and goal setting is a professional development training. Successful people in the short and long term goals and career plans developed for writing. They are at this stage, as shown by a lot of time and planning within the framework of C to B at the point of his career by reaching the steps necessary to move. Successful people take responsibility for their progress to achieve their goals and to monitor the success of his person. Employer (or not) for a long time for people who want to work for the company. The progression of a good job candidates for prospective employers is the highest selling point.

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