by TheSourceress on 21/03/2013
When I got my first job with a recruitment company I remember it being pointed out that our business was a lot harder than many others because we were selling a product that had emotions, a mind of its own and could get up and walk away at the drop of a hat. Just like [...]
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by TheSourceress on 09/07/2012
UK4Business were brought to my attention by my Dad. He had received an email offering ‘LinkedIn for Business’ training to his company and had decided to consider the idea for his sales people. Knowing that I use LinkedIn as part of my job and regularly train recruiters to use it, he wanted to ask me [...]
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by TheSourceress on 29/05/2012
Tomorrow evening at 8pm, Crexia are hosting their first Social Recruiting Twitter Chat. The topic will be “Social Recruiting on Facebook – Networking or Job Posting?”. The chat will feature guest speakers David Henry, VP of Marketing UKIE at Monster, and Stephane Le Viet, CEO & Co-founder of Work4Labs. So follow @hoorayhenry and @work4labs ahead of [...]
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by TheSourceress on 22/08/2011
Recent adventures on Empire Avenue have left me thinking about why I use various social sites. The more Eaves I earn on Empire Avenue, the more investments I can make and the more people I can then connect to. That is what will make the site useful to me in the long term. At this [...]
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by TheSourceress on 08/06/2011
{EAV_BLOG_VER:b864c0af18ce0675} This code should let me add this blog to my Empire Avenue profile. What’s Empire Avenue then? Empire Avenue is the Social Media Exchange: When you sign up you are given some Eaves (the virtual currency of Empire Avenue) in order to invest in the “social worth” of others and grow your own. Your [...]
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by TheSourceress on 23/04/2011
I have vague guidelines that help me decide who to connect with on various Social platforms. I make these guidelines visible here on my blog in the Contact and Connect section so that anyone looking to interact with me knows what I am and am not comfortable with. These guidelines are great, because I no [...]
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by TheSourceress on 09/08/2010
At the weekend I was having lunch with two of my oldest girlfriends that I have known since high school. I won’t mention names here for reasons that should become clear. Both of them use facebook, one much more avidly than the other, but neither engage much with other social platforms. The avid Facebook user [...]
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