When guest speaker Steve Buttry spoke to our class about the future of journalism, he urged us to create our own brand or product, and to do it now. His words got me thinking, and I struggled to come up with something that would incorporate a popular theme with a twist. The first thing that […]
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Facebook: Harmful or Helpful for Job Searching?
February 21st, 2012 · No Comments · colleen wilson, comm361, mashable
In a recent Mashable article, a newly published study suggested that job performance can be directly linked to, even predicted by, Facebook profiles. After spending 10 minutes browsing a prospective employee’s profile, researchers rated each page on the Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism). The study found a strong correlation on several […]
