Global powerhouse Ernst & Young was the first major employer to implement a full-scale Facebook recruiting strategy. That was at the beginning of 2007—and by September of 2008 (according to a story posted on Attracting Talent) their FB Careers page had 18,000 “fans.” A year later (according to our own Facebook basics story), that number had almost doubled.
And today? 48,029 People Like the EY Careers page.
That’s a lot of folks. In … Read the rest
Recently, the Boston advertising agency Conover Tuttle Pace started its second annual Summer Sublet desk swap. As reported by the Boston Globe, the Summer Sublet is a combination lottery/draft, in which employees maneuver their way to better quarters for a month. This year’s big winner traded his spot in the communal workspace for the president’s glass-walled corner office–complete with TV and a garden view
Summer Sublet requires everyone, from the newbies to the bosses, … Read the rest
I am (at last) getting into Facebook. For some reason, Twitter made sense to me immediately, while Facebook has remained largely a mystery. But after a few weeks of floundering around, I’m starting to understand a little better.
Biggest help: Oddly enough, a talk by David Kirkpatrick on BookTV. Kirkpatrick (formerly senior technology editor at Fortune magazine) is the author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the … Read the rest
The unemployment rate among U.S. veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan has been increasing every year—all the way from 6.1% in 2007 to 14.7% in March, 2010.
Obviously, unemployment is higher overall in 2010. But in March the composite national rate was about 10%, which means there’s a big difference between vets and most other groups.
A recent USA Today story cites three specific reasons for the high rate of veteran unemployment:
1. Difficulty in translating … Read the rest
Among the Earth-shaking events of April 2010 was Apple’s announcement that iProducts will never, ever have support for Flash.
So?
It may not be important to follow the back-and-forth technical arguments about Flash, but anyone who has anything to do with corporate communications online should acquire at least a high-level overview of this development. And since employer branding in general, and the Careers site in particular, have a strong interest in social networking and multimedia, … Read the rest
