The days of printing out a stack of resumes and handing them out at job fairs are definitely over. Social media is the new 24/7 job fair, providing amazing ways to constantly stay on the radar of prospective employers, but many people still don’t know how to utilize it. Don’t let your MBA go to waste. Here’s the lay of the social job seeking land in 2011, based on a recent study by Jobvite:
What would you do in a world without Facebook and how big of a role does it play in your life? We all know about the popularity of Facebook over the last 10 years or so, now it becomes the biggest company based on the internet. It was found by Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard, now it is used in more than 600 million users and it shows no sign of slowing in its meteoric rise to ruling the social networking [...]
As Facebook has become more and more popular—if it were a country, it would be the third largest in the world—its use in the field of education has expanded, too. In fact, more than 80% of college admissions officers report using Facebook as part of their recruiting process. Are admissions officers really looking at the Facebook profiles of prospective students? And if so, are they making admissions decisions based on these profiles? Below is an infographic that highlights the answers [...]














