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Admit it; you've always wondered how to mix that perfect, permanently unemployed cocktail haven't you? How to make sure most potential future employers wouldn't touch you with a barge pole.
Well The Savvy Intern has some advice:
According to a survey of 300 hiring professionals conducted by Reppler, a social media monitoring service for managing online presence, a job candidate’s social network is thoroughly examined during the hiring process by 91 percent of employers and recruiters.
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So what can job seekers learn from this? First, realize that the importance of a professional online image will help enhance your first impression when applying for a job. It cannot be stressed enough that even one picture, tweet, or exaggeration about your skills can deteriorate your personal brand.
Second, since Facebook is the number one most utilized social network (followed by Twitter), employers may want to inspect that your social skills and personality will match their corporate culture. If that were the case, you should use good behavior and judgment of your words and persona online as if you were working in a professional setting.
1. Be over 45
2. Be unemployed already. And,
3. Use non-corporate-approved language on Teh Internets.
USA!USA!
9 comments:
With the way the job-market is shrinking, I wouldn't be surprised if being older than 40 and currently not employed will forever sink your prospects.
What a wonderful world.
I'm fucking 54 and I am fucking unemployed.
Flamethrowers + HR professionals = would you like BBQ sauce with that?
Other advice: be a big jerk on the internets, be totally transparent, and try to help everybody. Oh, and have a little faith in your fellow humans, little though we may deserve it. Sometimes the cream pie that you get now will pay off in ways you can never imagine. Just sayin', dudes and ladies. :-)
A look at one view of the endgame.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/sdr-same-demented-regime
Yet again, I give thanks and praise to Jah Rastafari for making me a union construction worker instead of a white collar corporate drone.
Dingdingdingdingding!!
Winnahwinnah chicken dinnah!!
The trifecta.
If you can't find a job, find an Occupation!
yup, or spend the post-40 part of your career hopping from one temporary contract to another, hoping a coworker gets pregnant/quits/gets struck by lightning and opens up a longer temp contract.
I'll be hitting that trifecta in spring along with pbfishtaco.
This problem is not limited to the Excited States of 'Murika either. We Canukistani are looking at ever shrinking unemployment insurance eligibility and stricter limits on welfare.
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