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		<title>Facebook &amp; Work: Will Friending Your Manager Help Your Career?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, I thought it was a bad idea to friend your boss on Facebook because of the possibility that revealing too much could hurt your progress at your current job, as well as any future opportunities. Lately, I&#8217;ve had a slight change of heart. In recent months, I&#8217;ve asked my Facebook friends and subscribers if they&#8217;ve friended their managers on Facebook. For those who answered yes, I asked about how Facebook relationships with the bosses have changed things in the workplace, if at all. Of the people who are Facebook friends with their managers, more say they&#8217;ve had a positive experience with these relationships over a negative one. Through Facebook, they had a stronger relationship with management and coworkers. They were actually more cautious about what they posted too, and report that their careers have advanced as a result. I was interviewed in a Washington Post article exploring whether it&#8217;s a good or bad idea to friend your boss on Facebook. For the most part, I now think that a Facebook relationship with your boss can be beneficial. I also firmly believe that in the future, the workplace and society as a whole will be completely transparent, and it will become more natural to communicate with the people you work with on your social network accounts. I believe this trend will be driven in large part by Gen Y, who will comprise the majority of the workforce in the next ten years. They are used to over-sharing and are more understanding of what their peers are doing online. I&#8217;ve changed my view because I believe the more connected you are, the more effective you are in networking, keeping in touch, and showcasing the personal aspects of your life. In the past, I felt that mixing your personal and professional identities could be harmful to your career. Today, however, I feel that people are more careful with their updates. We&#8217;re more aware that what we post can be seen by almost anyone, including others who are in a position to hurt or<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=60052&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Different Generations of Americans Try to Find Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do millenials approach the job hunt differently than their older counterparts in Gen X or the Baby Boom generation? It turns out that they do, sometimes in surprising ways. For one thing, despite the fact that millennials are highly likely to be underemployed or just plain unemployed, they are more optimistic than older generations about their prospects for finding work. Nearly 9 in 10 millennial job seekers (88%) describes themselves as optimistic about finding a new job, compared to 81% of Gen X and 73% of Boomers. That&#8217;s just one of the differences among generations we found in a new study called &#8220;The Multi-Generational Job Search,&#8221; by my company and Beyond.com. We surveyed 5,268 American job seekers, including 742 members of Gen Y (18- to 29-year-olds), 1,676 Gen Xers (30-47) and 2,850 Baby Boomers (48-67) to see how the various generations went about job hunting differently. In many ways, the job hunt is the same no matter what your age. All generations spend an average of between 5 and 20 hours per week searching for jobs. The study shows that all generations largely focus their job search energy online instead of offline, which is a big difference from a decade ago when people couldn&#8217;t rely on social networks to connect with recruiters. Despite the rise of social networking, the vast majority of all generations relies on job boards as a primary resource &#8212; Baby Boomers especially (87 percent), but a high percentage of younger job seekers as well (77 percent of Gen Y). People still value job boards because they raise awareness for open positions and because it&#8217;s easy to submit a resume through them. (MORE: Just How Underemployed Is Gen Y?) Similarities aside, there are several notable differences in how Americans in varying age demographics approach a job search. Here is what we found: Generation Y. Relative to older generations, Gen Y is the most optimistic about the future and is willing to do whatever it takes to build a career, including going back to school, starting a business<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=44714&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just How Underemployed Is Gen Y?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gen Y is in a bind. This group of 18- to 29-year-olds has been told they must go to college in order to find a decent job. Yet upon graduating, few jobs are available to young people &#8212; and those that are open often don&#8217;t require a college degree. Earlier this year, The Atlantic pointed to data indicating that 53% of recent college grads were either jobless or underemployed. Underemployment is of course better than unemployment, but many of the jobs new grads are taking don&#8217;t pay well enough to make much of a dent in student loan debt. The average college graduate owes roughly $25,000 in debt, and the total student loan debt is now greater than a trillion dollars. Graduates are being forced in large numbers to take non-professional jobs until they can find ones tied to the career they&#8217;d been preparing for. A new study by my company, Millennial Branding, and the on-demand compensation data and software firm PayScale gives a good indication of how underemployed Gen Y truly is. We gathered information related to where Gen Y workers were most likely employed, what skills they were likely to have, where they aspire to work, what majors had the best (and worst) choice of jobs, and more. (MORE: 5 Best Places for the Rich and Single) Here are the study&#8217;s major findings, which shed light on the state of today&#8217;s young workers: They are graduating into poor-paying retail jobs. Our study found that over 63% of Gen Y workers have a bachelor&#8217;s degree, but the most commonly reported jobs for Gen Y don’t necessarily require a college degree. What&#8217;s ironic is that in order to compete for professional jobs in this economy, a B.A. is usually required, yet when everyone has one, it&#8217;s hard to stand out. The most common jobs for Gen Y workers include Merchandise Displayer, Clothing Sales Representative, and Cell Phone Sales Representative. You can bet that Gen Y would much rather have a professional job linked to their major than settle for a job at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=44095&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power Within: Why Internal Recruiting &amp; Hiring Are on the Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At companies large and small, the hunt for top talent never ends. Lately, amid efforts to cut costs and increase the odds of employees being successful in their positions, many businesses are finding talent in a place that may have been overlooked in the past &#8212; within the company itself. In the past, external hiring was in many ways the preferred norm. Rather than hire from within, companies seemed to prefer the idea of stealing talent away from the competition, thereby bringing in new perspectives and bit of intelligence, among other benefits. Major companies had sizable advertising and recruiting budgets, and assumed that a larger applicant pool would result in better hires. Flush with cash, they could take chances on hiring passive or active job seekers. Spending tens of thousands of dollars on recruiters seemed necessary to hire top talent, especially in executive-level positions. Nowadays, however, the weak economy is forcing recruiting budgets to be slashed, and companies are doing more with fewer resources. Instead of the default approach of hiring from the outside, companies are discovering (or rediscovering) that internal recruiting is cost-effective and sensible in more ways than one. (MORE: The Economy&#8217;s New Rules: Go Glocal) The average cost of finding and hiring someone from outside the company is 1.7 times more than an internal hire ($8,676 vs. $15,008), reports the Saratoga Institute. What&#8217;s more, research shows that between 40% and 60% of external hires aren&#8217;t successful, compared to only 25% for internal hires. This is good news for employees who typically leave firms due to lack of career opportunities, yet it&#8217;s bad news for job seekers who may have fewer jobs to apply for as internal hiring rises. Among major employers who have demonstrated increased interest in hiring from within, often via leadership development programs, Booz Allen Hamilton&#8217;s internal recruiting system called &#8220;Inside First&#8221; filled 30% of open positions with new hires in 2011, up 10% from 2010. In 2012, the firm has already placed 5,500 internal staff as well. Hill+Knowlton Strategies, a global PR firm, hired 28% internally<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=43314&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Make Hiring Decisions Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, we&#8217;ve all heard about how employers scope out the Tweets and Facebook profiles of job seekers to winnow down the field of applicants. But job seekers may be surprised to hear just how many recruiters now use social media throughout the hiring process. Perhaps more surprising still, most recruiters are apparently checking for grammar and spelling on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. A new survey released by Jobvite, a company that provides applicant tracking software, shows that 92% of employers are using or planning to use social networks for recruiting this year. This is up slightly from last year at 89%. The study retrieved insights from over 1,000 companies, mostly based in the U.S., in a wide variety of industries. Social networks are viewed by corporations as a means to recruit both passive and active candidates in a personal yet professional way. Companies such as Ernst &#38; Young and Sodexo are building employer brands on social networks to position themselves as the best place to work and to interact with potential candidates. Aside from passively marketing their companies, recruiters are messaging prospects directly, getting introduced through connections and posting jobs in groups. They are using these networks to fish where the fish are. (MORE: What Type of Worker Are You? Your Boss May Soon Want to Know) Even if you don&#8217;t supply a recruiter with your social network profiles, 73% of recruiters will check them out anyway. What are they looking for? First off, it&#8217;s important that you have profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. If you don&#8217;t, you won’t seem as relevant and companies might think that you&#8217;re hiding something. Next, companies are inspecting social profiles to weed out candidates and to get a sense of whether a particular applicant is likely to fit into the culture or not. What you post or Tweet can have positive or negative impact on what recruiters think of you. Four out of five recruiters liked to see memberships and affiliations with professional organizations on a candidate&#8217;s profile, and another 66% react<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=41776&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somebody&#8217;s Gotta Get Hired, Right? 6 Tips to Help New Grads Land Job Offers</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/05/15/somebodys-gotta-get-hired-right-6-tips-to-help-new-grads-land-job-offers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been reported that more than half of the nation&#8217;s recently minted college graduates are either jobless or underemployed. That&#8217;s the highest percentage in over a decade. Some grads, though, have landed their dream jobs with great companies. What sets these applicants apart from the pack? My company, Millennial Branding, partnered with Experience, Inc., to find out. Our study on the student employment gap asked 225 employers what they look for when hiring for entry-level positions. Among the findings, while internships are important, they&#8217;re not everything—and having an internship is certainly no guarantee that you&#8217;ll get a job offer. The majority of companies surveyed want students to have one or two internships, yet most internships don&#8217;t turn into full-time positions. Furthermore, only about half of the companies said they&#8217;d hired at least one intern in the past six months. (MORE: 7 Ways to Get the Most Out of an Internship) In order to get a job out of college these days, new grads should be overachievers with internships and other real-life business experience, and they should expect to have to go above and beyond the typical job search. Based on our findings, here are some ways to build your resume and position yourself to create the best odds of getting a job offer: 1. Develop your &#8220;soft skills.&#8221; Sure, technical skills and experience are great. But in the study, we found that when hiring for entry-level positions, almost all employers view communication and teamwork skills, as well as having a positive attitude, as being important or very important. These &#8220;soft skills&#8221; demonstrate how well an applicant will fit into the corporate culture, and give an indication of how long a new hire will stay at the company—and whether or not the individual is management material down the line. &#8220;Employers understand that everything else can be taught, so they look for the most promising raw material to work with,&#8221; says Jennifer Floren, the Founder and CEO of Experience, Inc. The best way to develop your soft skills is to become more<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=38900&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Face-to-Face Networking Still Trumps Social Networking</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/04/27/why-face-to-face-networking-trumps-social-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new report from the &#8220;social discovery&#8221; site Badoo, 39% of Americans now spend more time socializing online than they do in person. In addition, nearly 20% prefer communication via text or the Internet over talking face to face or on the phone. But focusing strictly on e-networking and digital communication can hurt your career, not to mention your social skills where they really count—in the real world. There are now more than 900 million people on Facebook, a few billion tweets per week on Twitter, and over a hundred million blogs. People aren&#8217;t just accessing social networks within browsers either; more than half of the people on Facebook (600 million to be exact) access the site on their mobile phones. While social media has become a global phenomenon you ignore at your own peril, it is just as unwise to forget about the necessity of building strong, face-to-face relationships. In an op-ed for the New York Times, Sherry Turkle, a professor at M.I.T., wrote of the sad state of affairs in that &#8220;we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.&#8221; In other words, many people now find it much easier and more convenient to message, e-mail, and friend others online than to take the time to truly get to know someone in person. The result may be that we have more connections, but the typical relationship is shallower. (MORE: The Rise of the Remote Worker, or How to Work from Home without Getting Fired) This is problematic in terms of one&#8217;s career, because it&#8217;s the people who know you the best and trust you the most who can wind up helping you the most. No matter how well the latest tech tools allow us to stay in touch, face-to-face meetings are still very important in the workplace. One of the dangers of working remotely is that telecommuters are isolated from the people that they work with, most importantly the managers who have the power to promote (or ignore or downsize) them. While networking can and should include social<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=37689&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Know Whether You Should Switch Employers</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/04/11/how-to-know-whether-you-should-switch-employers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is now a good time to switch employers? Or is it wiser to stick with your current job and make the best of it? The days in which workers could expect to have one long career at a single company are long gone. In more recent times, the assumption has been that the quickest way to advance was to hop from job to job and company to company. Then the recession hit, and people who had jobs tended to cling to them as best they could. Even if they were unhappy, resigning to start with a new company seemed especially risky while mass layoffs occurred every other day. Now that the jobs market has improved, though, what&#8217;s the smartest, most prudent approach for a successful, satisfying career? It may take years for our economy to support those in job transition, and currently it&#8217;s a buyers market. The Department of Labor reports that the unemployment U6 rate, which tracks those without a job and those who have given up looking for work, was 14.5% in March after only 120,000 jobs were added to the economy. These figures have been decreasing (14.9% in February and 15.7% in March 2011), but are still alarmingly high. Still, many working professionals aren&#8217;t satisfied merely with the fact that they have a job at all. They are always looking for better opportunities, and their job-searching and network efforts often take place during during work hours. (MORE: Millennials vs. Baby Boomers: Who Would You Rather Hire?) What may come as a surprise is that young workers and those who hope to join the workforce soon would actually prefer to stay with the same company for a fairly long time. Longer, in fact, than they typically wind up staying. The Class of 2012 survey of 7,944 college students across the country, by Achievers and Experience.com, shows that the average length of time millennials want to stay with a company is 4.7 years. This number is more than double the time they are actually staying. My company recently released a report confirming this trend<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=57493&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Millennials vs. Baby Boomers: Who Would You Rather Hire?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/03/29/millennials-vs-baby-boomers-who-would-you-rather-hire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new poll reveals just how different Gen Y workers are from their Baby Boomer forefathers. Among other things, millennials (those in their 20s and early 30s) want flexible work schedules, more "me time" on the job, and nearly nonstop feedback and career advice from managers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=57408&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of the Remote Worker, or How to Work from Home Without Getting Fired</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/03/13/the-rise-of-the-remote-worker-or-how-to-work-from-home-without-getting-fired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is heading to the office necessary anymore? According to a Cisco study, 70% of college students and young professionals say no. Increasingly, and perhaps surprisingly, employers seem to agree. Studies show that 45% of the U.S. workforce now has a job that&#8217;s suitable for full-time or part-time telecommuting. But even as working from home becomes more acceptable and the rigid command and control office model seems outdated, remote workers remain worried that they may be viewed as slackers, and that the lack of &#8220;face time&#8221; with the boss can hurt their careers. Advances in video conferencing, social media and other technologies, the increased need in the modern-day business world to be on the job 24/7 and forward-thinking workplace-flexibility programs have given rise to a new era of the remote worker. Telecommuting, working from home, working remotely: they all essentially mean the same thing (working somewhere other than in an office). And this form of work is growing. The Atlantic reported that there are now more than 34 million people who work from home occasionally. A new study by the software company Wrike, meanwhile, shows that 83% of employees work remotely at least part of the day. Presumably, reading and answering e-mails while commuting, or perhaps just before bedtime, counts, as it should. (MORE: How to Work at Home: 4 Ways to Convince Your Boss) Businesses are embracing remote workers because the absence of a traditional office environment and hours can increase efficiency and make employees more productive than ever. Workplace flexibility also makes for happier employees. In the Wrike study mentioned above, 78% of those surveyed said they would forgo free food in order to be allowed to work remotely. According to the Cisco survey, 6 in 10 college students and young professionals said they feel like they have the right to work remotely on a flexible schedule. Yet pitfalls for remote workers are undeniable. Some telecommuters do, in fact, turn into slackers, take advantage of their situations and wind up getting fired. Remote workers also don&#8217;t form strong emotional<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=57290&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Shape Your Facebook Profile to Help You Land a Job</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/03/01/how-to-shape-your-facebook-profile-to-help-you-land-a-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recently published study, Facebook profiles are good indicators of job performance. A 10-minute review of a Facebook profile can give a hiring manager clues about your personality type and insights as to how you&#8217;ll fit into the company&#8217;s work (or not) and succeed on the job (or not). It&#8217;s no surprise, then, that more employers are reviewing Facebook profiles when screening potential new hires. The trick for job seekers is to make sure they&#8217;re presenting their best, most employable self on Facebook. In January, U.K. business psychology firm OPP reported that 56% of employers now review the Facebook profiles of job applicants. Employers see Facebook as a place where they can weed out candidates from their pool of thousands of resumes. Unfortunately for job seekers, there&#8217;s no second chance to make a first impression. In a survey last year of companies that screen applicants’ social media sites, such as Social Intelligence, 73% don’t give applicants an opportunity to address racy, odd, or otherwise questionable information gathered via social media sites, says the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). More likely: The job candidate is simply eliminated from the hiring process. A Jobvite study from 2011 found that 84% of job seekers had profiles on Facebook, and 63% of them were actively searching for jobs. Everyone knows of the opportunity to network via Facebook, and now we know that such networking can result in gainful employment: A total of 18.4 million Americans, in fact, have credited Facebook as the source that led to their current job. (MORE: Your Facebook Profile Can Predict Your Job Performance) On the other hand, it&#8217;s impossible to estimate how many candidates were not hired, or even brought in for interviews, because of information gathered on Facebook. Observers have been discussing the wisdom of online discretion for years, and it appears that some of us have been listening: A Pew Internet survey concludes that 58% of social network users have private profiles. Plenty of others aren&#8217;t all that careful about their profiles, and too much<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=34008&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the Full-Time Salaried Job</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/02/17/the-end-of-the-full-time-salaried-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re moving from an economy that supported full-time employment and benefits to one where professionals have multiple jobs simultaneously.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=57111&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways Young People Can Bounce Back From Economic Setbacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Labor Organization estimates that around the world, there are nearly 75 million unemployed youth — a new “Lost Generation," in the words of panelists discussing the problem at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week. As for the millions who are young, jobless, and frustrated, they want less talk, more action, and most importantly, more results.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=31631&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is It a Bad Idea to Friend Co-workers on Facebook? How About Your Boss?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nice to have a friendly work environment. But in some cases, work friends shouldn&#8217;t be Facebook friends. Why not? A status update published on a Tuesday night can easily turn into office gossip on Wednesday morning. Even worse: co-workers and managers could take you less seriously, you could be skipped over for a promotion and you might find yourself first in line when layoffs occur, all based on your activity on Facebook. In a new report conducted by my company, Millennial Branding, and Identified.com, we gathered information from 4 million Gen Y Facebook profiles to see how their personal and professional online identities overlap. We discovered that, to some degree, most users limit the details of their professional lives on Facebook. Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Gen Y Facebook users don&#8217;t list their employer in their profile, some likely out of worries that they could be easily searchable by co-workers — a situation they&#8217;d prefer to avoid. (LIST: Nine Jobs of the [Near] Future) We also found that the typical Gen Y Facebook user is connected to about 700 friends. But only 16 of those friends, on average, are co-workers. Even so, are young workers today connected to too many colleagues and prone to sharing so much that it could hurt their careers? Through Facebook, one&#8217;s personality, self-image and interests are exposed, and these details can affect how we&#8217;re perceived by co-workers and managers. There&#8217;s even reason to be careful about friending people you don&#8217;t work with. The data shows that young people are job hoppers. They spend just over two years at their first corporate job before moving on. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average American will have about nine jobs between the ages of 18 and 32. All this job hopping increases the likelihood that a Facebook friend will someday be a colleague at work — perhaps even an in-office rival or the person who decides whether you get a promotion. (LIST: 12 Things You Should Stop Buying Now) Placing friends in certain groups on Facebook<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=30345&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Is Your Twitter Account Not Your Twitter Account?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man in California is being sued for $340,000 by his former employer. What did he do? This isn&#8217;t a case of bringing home the stapler from his cubicle. After resigning from the company, he took his Twitter followers with him—all 17,000 of them. A recently filed lawsuit, covered by the New York Times among others, pits a California-based social media specialist named Noah Kravitz against his former company, the mobile phone business Phonedog.com. While employed with the company, Kravitz published tweets under the account name “@Phonedog_Noah.” The account was popular enough to surpass 17,000 followers by the time he left the company. Phonedog allowed Kravitz to keep his Twitter account as long as he posted occasionally, which he agreed to because he left on good terms. Or so he thought. Kravitz later changed his account name to “@NoahKravitz,” while keeping all his followers. Eight months after the name change, PhoneDog sued Kravitz for a whopping $340,000, in effect saying that he wasn&#8217;t entitled to his Twitter followers—because he&#8217;d gained the following while working for PhoneDog. The amount was determined by valuing each follower at $2.50 per month, and multiplying $2.50 x 8 months x 17,000, totaling $340K. (MORE: The Beginning of the End of the 9-to-5 Workday?) Putting the math aside, not to mention how in the world anyone can put a dollar amount on the worth of an individual Twitter follower, the lawsuit brings to light some very interesting issues in the modern-day workplace. Like: When a social media account is affiliated with a company, who (or what) owns the profile? Are Twitter followers amassed from a business-related account yours to keep after you&#8217;ve left the business? By developing a social media profile, is an employee building his own personal brand, or the brand of the company employing him? Lawsuits like the one facing Kravitz may help provide guidelines for these and other puzzling issues related to social media today. For now, all we can be sure about is that social media is on the rise in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=56799&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginning of the End of the 9-to-5 Workday?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/12/21/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-9-to-5-workday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The traditional eight-hour workday may soon be the exception rather than the rule. New evidence shows that we&#8217;re reaching a tipping point in terms of workplace flexibility, with businesses seeing the wisdom of allowing employees — young ones especially — to work odd hours, telecommute and otherwise tweak the usual 9-to-5 grind. One of the top 12 trends for 2012 as named by the communications firm Euro RSCG Worldwide is that employees in the Gen Y, or millennial, demographic — those born between roughly 1982 and 1993 — are overturning the traditional workday. The Business and Professional Women’s Foundation estimates that by 2025, 75% of the global workforce will be Gen Y. As early as next year, this group of younger Americans will comprise 60% of the employees at companies like Ernst &#38; Young. And increasingly, companies are creating workplace-flexibility programs because it makes good business sense, not in the least because that&#8217;s what their employees are demanding. (GALLERY: 9 Jobs of of the (Near) Future) Gen Y-ers are spearheading this change because they don’t want the same work environment their parents had. Between new technology and global workplace dynamics, companies are implementing flexible work arrangements for everyone, inclusive of Gen Y. A recent Vodafone U.K. survey illustrates that 90% of employers enable work flexibility instead of sticking to traditional hours. Leading the charge in the shift toward allowing employees to work anywhere around the world, at any time they want, are companies such as Ernst &#38; Young, Aflac and MITRE, which all realize that they need to accommodate employees&#8217; personal lives if they want to retain them. “This notion of an eight-hour day is rapidly disappearing, simply because we work so virtually and globally,” says Maryella Gockel, Ernst &#38; Young&#8217;s flexibility-strategy leader. By understanding Gen Y-ers&#8217; need for workplace flexibility, companies are better able to recruit and grow young talent for the future. Aside from the early adopters of workplace-flexibility programs, many other companies are hesitant because of the traditional &#8220;command and control&#8221; approach laid out for older generations. The<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=28607&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make the Most Out of Internships</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/12/07/how-to-make-the-most-out-of-an-unpaid-internship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evidence suggests that unpaid internships are not a good investment. But if you must take one to compete in the job market, these strategies will ensure you get the most value from it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=27476&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Get Your Dream Job in a Bad Economy</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/11/28/how-to-get-your-dream-job-in-a-bad-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employers are posting the most job openings in the past three years, reports the Labor Department, yet there are nearly 14 million people out of work competing for these jobs. Here are five ways to make the most out of your job search.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=26551&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Stand Out Among 800 Million Facebook Users</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like everyone uses social media these days to help grow their business or personal brand. An ironic by-product of the success of social media, however, is that it’s become extremely hard to stand out amid all that content. The data is striking: Sure, some 800 million people use Facebook, but only 7.5% of your fans ever see your status updates, according to PageLever. And Sysomos reports that only 29% of your Twitter followers will see your messages. So how do you keep from being ignored online? Here are five fundamental strategies. 1. Start with the basics It should almost go without saying that your business should have a website as well as a blog and should participate on the top four social networks: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google+.  People are searching for you or for other companies that offer similar services, and every search query in which your company’s name doesn’t come up is an opportunity lost. (LIST: 12 Things You Should Stop Buying Now) 2. Establish a niche When creating your online brand, you need to have a specific audience in mind – the audience that would most likely purchase your product or service. For example, Rachel Rodgers Law Office in Phoenix positions itself as a company that offers “Innovative Legal Counsel for Generation Y Entrepreneurs.” If you’re too general with your positioning, you won’t attract the people that can make your company profitable over the long haul. Although this approach might not yield 2 million followers and fans, you&#8217;ll certainly generate leads. 3. Create valuable content The content that you publish should be concentrated on a single topic related to your business. Your status updates and blog posts could contain research, quotes, facts, stories and ideas instead of product pitches. As Jeffrey Gitomer famously said, “People don&#8217;t like to be sold but they love to buy.” Direct selling through social channels turns people off and is the fastest way to impede your business growth. Your market will be drawn to the valuable and interesting content that you produce. They&#8217;ll<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=25414&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the &#8216;Joey Quits&#8217; Video Is A Seriously Bad Career Move</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schawbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With over 2.4 million views on YouTube, over 500 comments and nearly 20,000 likes, “Joey Quits” has become a viral sensation. The video features Joey DeFrancesco, a disgruntled employee of the Renaissance Hotel in Providence, R.I., handing his manager a resignation letter while his brass band buddies strike up a glorious racket in the background. Since countless other workers feel mistreated in their own jobs, it’s not surprising that Joey is being celebrated as a folk hero &#8212; not unlike Steven Slater, the Jet Blue flight attendant who famously told off a rude passenger, grabbed a couple of beers, and jumped out of the plane and onto the tarmac. But here’s what is being missed while the band plays on: Everything that you publish online can come back to haunt you later in life. (MORE: Disgruntled Employee Quits Job, Backed by Brass Band) Even though DeFrancesco has claimed publically that he already has a better job, one has to wonder if his long-term career prospects will be affected by this episode. Given that very few employees are in perfect harmony with their boss, what kind of employer is going to hire someone with a history of publically mocking his manager? Who’s to say he wouldn’t pull this stunt again? I, too, cheered when the band started playing, but I’d be reluctant to hire him myself. And this is hardly an isolated phenomenon. Here are two stats that suggest how big a problem this kind of thing can be: In 2009, 8 percent of U.S. companies fired an employee over social media misuse; meanwhile, in 2010, 10 percent of workers complained about their boss online. That&#8217;s a recipe for a lot of pink slips. &#8220;What about freedom of speech?&#8221; some readers might be thinking. Well, Joey’s situation is actually more a matter of brand reputation and career management than legal rights. It’s actually become fairly difficult to retaliate in court against disgruntled former employees who lash out online. In a TIME article earlier this year, for example, a paramedic in Connecticut complained about<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=23762&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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