On Starting A Career
Posted on June 2, 2014 Leave a Comment
LinkedIn seems to be pimping this #IfIWere22 thing kind of hard, which is cute, considering that basically puts this retrospective series already out of the most desired online demographic. But for those Golden Girls aficionados, 60 Minutes enthusiasts and Murder She Wrote fans who think that LinkedIn is, in fact, a social network, 22 sounds like the beginning of time.
And for most, it is the traditional age where you start your career, although that’s increasingly becoming more difficult, the result of too much competition, too few jobs and a definite trend towards freelance and contract over employment in the workforce.
Goodonya: Once on This Island
Posted on May 29, 2014 8 Comments
There’s something almost mystical about Australia – which makes sense, considering its antipodal positioning. And, I can tell you from experience, that 17 hour plane ride across the Pacific sucks. You know when you get excited that the monotony of sky and surf is broken by some remote atoll or, better yet, a barge – particularly when the best in-flight movie they’ve got is Ice Cube in Ride Along.
Memoir: A Post About Nothing
Posted on May 15, 2014 1 Comment
I have this cool app called Memoir – not sure if it’s on Android, because I value my phone data (albeit I am forced to use PRISM poster child AT&T for the service). It lets you see what you were doing one year ago, two, up until the dawn of time, or at least when you set up Twitter or Facebook or any other social network with an open API.
For most people – the latter, at least, only tracks until it went open to the public – thanks for ruining it by not limiting it to a list of like 15 .edus. I’m going to correct that and go back to what I was doing 8 years ago today:
The Real Skills Gap: Competent Recruiters
Posted on April 24, 2014 3 Comments
There’s a lot of people out there talking about the skills gap out in my chosen line of work. Apparently, somewhere along the way, women decided that the necessities of stuff like going through a horrific physical transformation in order to ensure the survival of our species, around the same time that high schoolers figured out that majoring in liberal arts involved way less homework than something in science.
Don’t Be That Guy: Terrible Twitter Profiles
Posted on April 22, 2014 2 Comments
I’m pretty active Twitter user who manages more corporate accounts than I’d care to (and even one for an NPO, just because). And because I’m old school like dat, I monitor mentions and interactions on TweetDeck, which has been ubiquitous on my desktop since 2009, not to mention largely unchanged from its original instance in terms of UI/UX and features. This means that I get a little pop-up window containing a user’s picture and bio every time one of my accounts picks up a new follower – and it’s to those new followers that I’d like to address this post.
Snark Attack 