An article in the August 21, 2009, The Dallas Morning News, Section A, Page 29, by McClatchy Newspapers, titled “Before a job search, put a lid on your tweets” provides some very good advice about social networking.
Perhaps you can best define social networking by providing example. How many social networks can you name? Let’s see: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace, are a few that I can name. One of the article's quotation is “Every tweet, every post is being actively indexed by different search engines. It’s going to be available in perpetuity” says Gillian Gabriel, a headhunter for advertising and marketing agencies.
I recall individual careers being marred by when revealing pictures taken years ago became public. The advice here is that you should think twice or perhaps three times before you post negative thoughts or ideas on a social network. Such words may be found by the organization that you are seeking employment. I am wondering if negative thinking, speaking, and writing are ever beneficial to anything or anybody.
Does anyone have an opinion about social networking and job searches? Glyn
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