August 31st, 2012
One of the great things about LinkedIn is the ability to see who’s been looking at your profile. As well as providing an insight into what kinds of people are interested in what you have to offer it can also give you a source of interesting new connections. Over the past few weeks, as I’ve [...]
July 20th, 2012
Had a brief debate this morning on Twitter with friend and ex-colleague @leebenecke centred around ownership of LinkedIn connections: are they yours, or do they belong to the company you were working for when you made them? The industry in which Lee and I both work may be different to others, but I would imagine that similar [...]
May 8th, 2011
Yeah. It’s been a while. Er, sorry. What can I say. It’s not you: it’s me. You see, there’s someone new in my life and they’re taking up a lot of my time. More time than I think I thought they would. And, well, something had to give. Right now that, dear reader, is you. [...]
January 19th, 2010
According to research by careerbuilder.co.uk, the interweb increasingly plays a part in recruitment decisions, with 53 per cent of employers researching candidates on sites such as Facebook – and a further 12 per cent planning to start soon. The results speak for themselves: 40 per cent decided not to hire after reading a candidate’s social [...]