To Live is to Learn and to Give

I was reading up some SAMBA graduates’ experience today, and they made me pause.  They brought back sweet memories of my high school years at UWC Atlantic College, where two hundred of us in their late teens were instilled with the possibilities of the sky and empowered to learn (like a sponge, soaking up all [...]

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Social media is no longer an option

In the security firm Aladdin’s Annual Threat Report of 2008, they predicted that identity theft would go social, “the sheer amount of public data on sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Bebo and even MySpace make it easier to impersonate, damage or misrepresent a personal or business identity on the Web. We predict that we will see [...]

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Recruiters: Think like Marketers

My co-Tweeter brought my attention to this great blog on Cheezehead. Social media and online apps have transformed the way we think about business, marketing, and even recruiting. I wonder if there’s any official survey of the utilization of social media tools by recruiters. But as far as I now, many recruiters have already got [...]

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Loose lips can keep you afloat!

*Dun dun dun* In these economic times, *dun dun dun* who’s not stressed about job security? And if we’re being honest with each other, who’s not stressed about life in general? As a fairly recent college grad maybe I’m just having a hard time adjusting to life’s growing list of responsibilities (ahem, obstacles), but I [...]

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