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Helpful Hints for Social Media and Business Marketing

Since virtually everything is online now, including most online recruitment, your business should be too. Perhaps you have a website and have left it at that. That was fine five years ago, but you have to start doing more to thrive and get the presence you want. Many businesses are figuring things out and making […]

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Effective Ways to Use Social Media to Find a Job

Social media is an online job system, one that more employers are using in today’s modern era. The old adage, it’s “who you know not what you know,” couldn’t be more accurate in a job search in today’s online job system … at least it feels true a lot of the time. In today’s job […]

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Business Habits That Will Change Your Business Today

In his book, “The Power of Habits,” author Charles Duhigg cites many studies all relating to how habits shape our personal lives, business, careers and pretty much every facet of our lives. It all boils down to the old adage, “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.” If you […]

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Social Media in the Workplace

In a recent report, it was estimated that workers spent an average of 7.5 hours during the week on social media, and that was just time spent during the workday. That employers are losing out on 1.5 hours a day of productivity from their employees due to social media in the workplace. The most popular […]

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Clean Up Your Social Media and Get a Job!

In a recent poll, 18 percent of employers reported finding content on social networking sites that caused them to avoid hiring a candidate. Let’s face it: if you don’t want a future employer to see it – don’t post it! Or, if you’ve already posted it, here are a few tips for cleaning up your social media […]