Networking: The Future Is Three-Dimensional
The concept of a network usually can be depicted as a two-dimensional representation of interconnected boxes with a person or an organization as the focal point. As a network grows, it spawns...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Thinking Outside of the Network
Making a stab at covering all aspects of networking led to a five part series on the topic. Although each article was banging on the gate to be let out into the wild, I tamed them into showing up on...
View ArticleReal Networking Means Turning Hashtags into Real People
Every time I meet one of my social media heroes in real life there is always a short Wayne’s World moment when I have to resist the temptation to bow down to my rock star friend and shout “We’re not...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – A Blogging Smorgasbord
When I orchestrate a theme week and publish a series of related blogs, it is easy to summarize in a weekend update. This week has been full of distractions and it shows. On the professional side there...
View ArticleHow To Use Your Resume and When To Do It
Nobody ever reads the instruction manual, but resumes don’t come with details anyway. Instructions on how to use a resume would almost seem to be unnecessary, but there are some very wrong things that...
View ArticleStupid Networking Tricks
Every career counselor gives the advice that networking is the best way find a new job. In the parallel world of recruiting, networking is also the key to locate candidates for hire. I have engaged in...
View ArticleSmart Networking Techniques
It is always easier to see the negatives than the positives. When we see someone using trickery and deception we know that is not networking. One criticism heard about using networking in a job search...
View ArticleNetworking for Baboons and the Rest of Us
Dr. Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist who wrote his PhD dissertation on the social organization of the gelada baboon. Known today as an expert in primate behavior, he devised a correlation...
View ArticleDo Not Blow Your Nodes
A big mistake in thinking conceptually about social networking is overlooking the fact that it is in a multidimensional space. Linear thinking will almost always produce a limited picture of contact...
View ArticleMeasuring Your Network
Anything worth doing is worth measuring. If you are a job seeker or individual concerned about your personal brand, measuring your impact on your network and beyond is important. If you run a business,...
View ArticleReviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Social Networking Revisited
In a recent Twitter chat discussing the importance of networking in a job search, the usual tips and tricks were shared with participants. The intended audience for these sessions is the group of...
View ArticlePrehistoric Job Searching
Considering what we hypothesized about Recruiting Caveman Style, the Paleolithic Era humans looking for a way out of the dangers of hunting and the boredom of farming probably began thinking about the...
View ArticleHow to Engage and Learn From Twitter Chats
Have you ever wanted to get a glimpse at “the making of” a job search chat on Twitter? The decision that we made (a little bit me and a lot of Steve Levy and Cyndy Trivella) to move Open Mic Career...
View ArticleWho Needs Social Media?
Before you answer that question too quickly with your typical knee-jerk reaction, think about how you formed that opinion. Is it based on facts or are you blindly following suggestions planted by faux...
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