Here's your round-up of links for this Friday:
- The New Rules of Recruitment--This NPR segment discusses how job seeking has changed in recent years. Note--you should have an up-to-date LinkedIn profile and drop the husband/wife and AOL email addresses. Also, do not "friend" executives you don't know on Facebook or try to cold-call them with no prior contact.
- A Brief History of Social Media--Traces the evolution of social media from the days of "phone phreaks" through "You've Got Mail" and now, Twitter. An interesting read on the evolution of how technology connects us.
- How to Be Happy in Business--This Venn diagram is useful for career planning too.
- 8 Ways to Juice Your Meetings--Meetings were a hot topic at last week's GSETA conference workshop on Time management. Maybe some of these tips will help.
- Too Poor to Make the News--Writer Barbara Ehrenreich, auther of Nickeled and Dimed, discusses how all the talk of how the recession is impacting middle class workers is masking the impact on the real victims of the recession--the poor.
- Social Loafing: When Groups are Bad for Productivity--Apparently psychologists have discovered that the more people there are in a work group, the less work gets done. They have suggestions, though, on how to reduce this effect--make sure that group members feel a sense of community with each other, that the tasks they're working on are perceived as important and that you reduce the "sucker" effect, where people feel duped into doing work for slackers on their team.
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