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Facebook also used for researching job candidates

Published on September 4, 2009 in Business Tips and Misc. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .

With all the latest studies revealing that Facebook is a productivity killer or that employees get fired because of Facebook, now its time for a study related to the employers usage of social networking sites. Last year, 22% of employers reported that they were using social networking sites to research their job candidates, and now, the number increased to 45%. These are the findings of a CareerBuilder survey conducted on June 2009 on more than 2,600 hiring managers.

For checking the background and the online activity of job candidates, 29% of employers use Facebook, 26% use LinkedIn and 21% use MySpace. As for the top industries most likely to screen job candidates via social networking sites we can find the IT companies (63%) and Professional & Business Services companies (53%).

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8% of US companies fired employees because of Facebook

Published on August 14, 2009 in Misc and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

A few days ago I was informing you about studies that revealed that Facebook is a productivity killer. It seems that this has been closely monitored by many managers lately, because now it?s time for another study to show that Facebook is also a reason for firing employees. There is no wonder, since numbers shown that 87% of employees using the social networking site at work couldn?t define a clear business reason for using it.

Proofpoint Survey says that 17 percent of companies have issues with employee?s use of social media. Furthermore, 8% of companies reported that they have dismissed employees because of their behavior on sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. An alarming thing is Continue reading ’8% of US companies fired employees because of Facebook’

How to Streamline Social Networking

Published on May 26, 2009 in Productivity. 3 Comments Tags: , , .

social-networkingSocial networking is a vital marketing tool for businesses today. However, it can take a lot of time to stay on top of all of your social networks. You want to make sure that you?re active on the sites but that you do not waste so much time using them that you are compromising the rest of your productivity. For this reason, it?s important to learn to streamline social networking. This is done by reducing the number of social networks that you use,?relying on?posting tools and setting aside a specific amount of time per day for social networking. You may also want to consider hiring someone to assist with your social networking.

Reduce your Number of Social Networks

The key to social networks is really that you?re highly active on the site. You need to get to know people on each site and to comment back and forth with them for social networking to be effective. For this reason, it?s more important to focus your social networking attention on just 2 or 3 sites than it is to make sure that you are present on all of them. The?major social networks right now are Facebook and Twitter. LinkedIn is also important for some industries. Whittle down your number of accounts to just these key networks. Continue reading ‘How to Streamline Social Networking’