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Why You Should Hire Other Entrepreneurs
Article:Candidates with dreams of starting their own business can actually make great hires for yours, argues one expert on entrepreneurship-obsessed Gen Y.
When Millennial Branding and analytics company Identified.com combed through millions of Facebook profiles recently to glean insights about how the social network is being used professionally, they discovered something surprising--among young people (so-called Gen Y) the fifth most popular job title was "owner."
Company Career Site Is Most Important to Job Seekers
Article:When U.S. college students and recent grads go looking for a job, they want quick answers, trustworthy insights, and evidence the employers know how to use the various social media channels to add value to their search.
So says PotentialPark, a Swedish recruitment market research firm. Its annual survey (U.S. results were not posted as of this writing) of 3,552 U.S. college students and recent grads found young job seekers are comfortable with social media and expect that you will be too. While 86 percent of them make use of company career sites, more than half (56 percent) expect to find a company on Facebook, and 69 percent expect you to be on LinkedIn.
Dream Companies For The Class Of 2012: Everybody Wants To Work At Google
Article:This month when an estimated 1.7 million kids graduate from college, job boards, human resource offices and company career sites are going to be hit—hard—as the post collegiate realization of having to earn a paycheck dawns across the country. But according to new research by employer branding firm Universum, the company who’ll be receiving the most resumes this spring will be Google.
Jobs Few, Grads Flock to Unpaid Internships
Article:Confronting the worst job market in decades, many collegegraduates who expected to land paid jobs are turning to unpaid internships to try to get a foot in an employer’s door.
While unpaid postcollege internships have long existed in the film and nonprofit worlds, they have recently spread to fashion houses, book and magazine publishers, marketing companies, public relations firms, art galleries, talent agencies — even to some law firms.
2 New Tricks for Hiring Tech Talent
Article:There's a war for tech talent. Here's how you can get creative about finding and training coding ninjas.