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Why Social Recruitment Is Disrupting How We Apply For Jobs
What if your next employer spent ten minutes searching your online profile? Are you happy with everything they would find? Last week I posted about how social media could land you your next job and the dangers of online professional… Continue reading
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Adapt or Die: 3 Challenges To Going Digital
Yesterday was a significant day. The sector in which I work put on a huge show of newly found digital awareness. My Twitter timeline nearly melted. As Shirley Ayres correctly observed: This , just one year after the 2012 Northern… Continue reading
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The Social CV: How Social Media Could Get You Your Next Job
I often joke with a friend of mine that if they ever lost their job they would be unemployable. Because they have a great CV but zero digital footprint. No LinkedIn , no Twitter , no Facebook. Nothing. I ask… Continue reading
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Why Living In Paradise Is Bad For Business
Here is a story about what can happen when you don’t anticipate change. When you get used to things being easy for everyone. It’s a story you will have heard before but, like all the best tales , is as… Continue reading
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5 Social Media Policies That You Can Love
I posted last week about How Your Social Media Policy Could Kill Your Culture. It was about the “control creep” that’s affecting some organisations as they try to protect themselves from a social media firestorm. In this post I want… Continue reading
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Can I Borrow A Cup Of Wi-Fi?
I’m on holiday. I’m flicking through Twitter and sipping a beer in a village bar. Outside, some Thai kids are playing a game on the smartphone they’ve borrowed from their Mum. Locals pop in every so often to sit down… Continue reading
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How Your Social Media Policy Could Kill Your Culture
I love Social Media. But really, it’s not that important. Not compared to some things. I’ve begun to see a few posts suggesting that companies need to take more control over their employees social media output. That word – ‘control’… Continue reading
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Does Social Housing Need To Find A Richard Branson?
It’s May 2008 , and Helena Moore and I have just left the stage at the European Customer Management World Conference. We had just presented to an audience that included John Lewis , Microsoft and some young startup outfit called Facebook.… Continue reading
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Top Tips for Meetings: No.1 – Don’t Have Them….
About 18 months ago I visited a multinational company specialising in networking equipment. There I sat , marvelling at some of the most state of the art communications systems on the planet: HD Video seamlessly linking multiple sites , one… Continue reading
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HEY , Where are you? – Why your company needs to Google itself
I recently explained to a group of managers why they should google themselves. After the initial “what, me? I’m not famous!” responses, they see their search results , look intrigued, and then get it – the dangers of a badly… Continue reading
Paul Taylor 