Networking for job hunting.

Thought Provoking

Business Insider has a nice article on how information on facebook can possible hurt your job hunt. What was more interesting was the highlighting of how much more important linkedin (and others like xing) are for looking for new opportunities. Remember facebook is social, linkedin professional.

LinkedIn Gets Top Marks

This is how recruiters are using social media, according to the survey.

  • LinkedIn is by far the most popular social media tool, with 74% of recruiters saying they use it to find candidates.
  • About half of recruiters use LinkedIn to check up on candidates’ professional backgrounds
  • Some 21% of recruiters use LinkedIn to research candidates’ networks.
  • Candidates like LinkedIn too. As one says, “The lack of photos of people puking or wearing dumb costumes at some Really Great Party helps keep the professionalism up.”
  • Facebook is used by about 11% of recruiters to get a handle on candidates’ reputation
  • Twitter is a distant third, with only 3% of recruiters saying they use it
Keep the Racy Photos and Posts Private

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-could-be-hurting-your-job-hunt-2011-2#ixzz1DNMkdkci
 

Highly Creative Self-Portraits

Photography

My Modern Metropolis features some interesting self-portraits from a guy called Pierre Beteille. It certainly gives some inspiration of what can be done with this format.

I conceive photography like painting. The camera is just one of the tools. Photoshop allows me to create my images. So the first and main part of the process is not taking a picture but finding an idea… the idea always comes first and then I seek the best way to achieve it, and I know exactly what I want to get before shooting. My inspiration is the human being. Its absurdity, its irrationality, its pettiness in everyday life. Inspiration can come therefore from politics or religion, life and death, as well as food, television and all our daily behaviors.

I generally try to make images that offer several levels of reading. We first see something and a detail gives another interpretation …and multiple interpretations are possible according to the beholder… And I also try to make people smile!

Check out the site for more interesting photographs and the rest of the interview.