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Top 10 HR people you need to follow in Social HR!

Top 10 HR people you need to follow in Social HR!

Throughout my blogging journey I have met a lot of amazing HR minds & experts and I have contributed my write ups to a few of them as well! And this is the first time I am honored to introduce a guest post from a friend of mine, who I met on Twitter, with interesting perspectives and views – Lexie Forman-Ortiz! So let us get ready for some interesting insights from her! Here we go!

Lately, we hear a lot about social recruiting. Twitter, arguably more than any other social network, is an invaluable tool at the intersection of social media and HR. Twitter has over 140,000,000 active users and there are 340,000,000 Tweets sent per day.

With so much content, and transparency Twitter’s micro-blogging community has created an information center where people with the same interests can hold conversations that would have never been possible before. (more…)

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Presenting your Job Description & Company Culture graphically pays off

Presenting your Job Description & Company Culture graphically pays off

You might have noticed the Work at Work cartoon series at my blog. Well, let me tell you why did I start it in the first place. I was doing a study about my Facebook likes and shares and I noticed my readers share pictures more than interesting and helpful articles. It is a general study that I did in which I found that the tendency of sharing pictures over written articles is 60% more. So I made my own cartoons quoting funny incidents at office to entertain my audience or sometimes to probe different scenarios. Results! More shares, message spreads and better visibility.

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5 Online communities you need to check out

5 Online communities you need to check out

If you are into social media you might have already identified your niche site where you connect, share and engage with a group of professionals online and offline. Be it LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or any other. And you might have your own favorite groups where you can’t wait to discuss various topics related to your profession. Yes, I am talking about online communities. (more…)

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Make Employees your Social Brand Ambassadors!

Make Employees your Social Brand Ambassadors!

Do you think people update their LinkedIn profile only because they are actively searching for jobs?

There is always this misperception and people often fear to update their LinkedIn profile in the assumption that their employers will think that they are looking for another job! Actually this was his first response when I told my husband and his friends to update their LinkedIn profile! They felt they don’t need to since they are not searching for jobs!

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Recruit Smarter with Big Data

Recruit Smarter with Big Data

Talentnet Live conference Part I – Big Data Recruiting

I was not a big fan of analytics but my blogging profession has made it obvious to me that if I want to be a successful blogger I need to pay attention to the data that is available from my site statistics. Yes, I understood data can tell interesting stories and answer questions that I have been wondering about for a while. (more…)

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Why you should Network?

Why you should Network?

I don’t like to write sitting at my home for some reason that I even don’t know why! But one thing I know for sure is I want to be at a place where there are people around me and I love observing people. That is again one of my favorite things to do to pass time other than when I am not painting. So most of my evenings I drive to nearby Starbucks where I enjoy writing my blog posts and observing people too. (more…)

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Leader’s Talk Ep.5-with Jessica Miller, founder of Blogging4jobs.com

Leader’s Talk Ep.5-with Jessica Miller, founder of Blogging4jobs.com

I have been blogging for about a year and 3 months now. As I said earlier when you are passionate about something, learning about it is always an ongoing process where you try to look for examples that you can rely on, look for insights from others, eager to learn their success stories and look for mentoring lessons. (more…)

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How to stand out on LinkedIn

How to stand out on LinkedIn

This article is for those who are new to LinkedIn or might have not cared about the LinkedIn etiquette.

As we all know LinkedIn is a amazing website to build your professional network. I meant ‘Professional’. That doesn’t mean that with a click of a button you can influence somebody. Or frankly, sending an automated connection request might not work every time when you need to connect with a person and help you grow professionally. (more…)

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Workplace culture is built in person

Let me ask you this upfront!  Do you think the culture of an organization can be clearly expressed to the stakeholders and partners by sending enormous tweets and constant FaceBook updates about your company?

I doubt it! For example the photos and information that are shared mostly in a company’s facebook page are of their recent achievements, facilities available at work, employees having fun at a get together and mostly new products that has been launched recently, (more…)

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