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Getting Going With LinkedIn: Building Your Profile

LinkedIn is one of the leading social networks for business. As would be expected for what is practically the digital equivalent of a corporate networking event, some of us approach building a profile with a degree of nervousness – and many people aren’t exactly sure what to do once they’ve
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Getting Going with LinkedIn: 2. Building your Network

LinkedIn is the go-to Social Network for most professionals and job-seekers. It’s understandable that some of us have apprehensions about setting yourself up – and it can also be unclear about what steps to take after you have created a profile. In our previous article in the Getting going with

How To Get A Job With Social Media

  It has become a bit of a cliché that if you’re looking for a job, you want to make sure your Social Media presence is at the very least refined. You don’t have to spend long in the magical world of job seeking before somebody points out that the

Is Success Still About Who You know?

Like many before me I have been on the receiving end of the “I’m sorry, we have recruited from within” phone call. From within what, the company? The family? A close circle of friends? It does make you wonder. So I am going to start by saying somewhat jadedly yes,
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What’s it like to work at Twitter?

Subsidised breakfast and lunch, free yoga classes, the reimbursement of a gym membership and the opportunity to work at a growing organisation in some of the world’s most intriguing places, including San Francisco, Dublin (I know, because I did) and Paris. Life as a Twitter employee can’t be too shabby.
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Top tips for getting a social media internship

Internships are essential when it comes to work experience in a field such as media and journalism. Despite the fact there are numerous opportunities, there are even more applicants. Social media is fast becoming one of the most important factors in modern day businesses; it’s a way of communicating with your

What’s it like to Work at Facebook?

After watching “The Social Network”, it would appear that when Facebook was originally setup, it was maybe not the most ‘secure’ of jobs. With so much controversy into who came up with the initial ideas and who owned what percentage, Facebook has certainly had its bumps in the road before
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Will LinkedIn Eventually Replace CV’s?

The internet and social media have completely changed the way we form opinions, interact with friends and public figures and buy goods and services. So is it also time to give up our association with CV’s and shift towards having our work history on LinkedIn? Who would’ve thought just fifteen years ago that predominantly