Avoid Getting Fired on Facebook

Human resources experts and recruitment agencies have been handing out quality recruiting advice by the boatload, making it freely available online for many years now. We seem to take heed of this advice during the interview process and when in ‘job hunting’ mode, but as soon as we have secured a job, somehow we seem [...]

Putting the Leash on Social Media

A topic growing in controversy is that of how freely employees can express themselves on social media at the risk of losing their job or not being hired at all.
A Wall Street Journal Blog post reports that the majority of business executives believe that they have the right to know what their employees are doing [...]

‘Putting Out’ to ‘Score’ on Social Media

A recent post on Mashable “Do you pass the social media recruitment test” attempts to develop a case for utilising a candidate’s social media footprint to determine their eligibility for the applied role.
The post asserts that if you do not have an expanded and publicly available ‘social media footprint’ you are at a serious disadvantage [...]