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Careers | Guest blogger | Social media
Written by Computers in Personnel HP (CIPHR)
If you are looking for great HR software then you need to also include social media into your screening process. With the technology era in full swing, there aren’t many people without a social media account, a wonderful way for recruiters to utilise social media in workplace and screen their applicants even before the interview process.
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IT Insider / NetworkAre Free Public Wi-Fi Networks Safe? By Marc Saltzman for IT Insider
You already have plenty on your plate, whether you are implementing and maintaining technology, helping to resolve technical issues or ensuring your company’s data is safe and secure. Now, you can add the proliferation of rogue free public Wi-Fi networks to that list.
Free Wi-Fi connections can ...
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My excitement at being told that Scottish News wanted to interview me about an iPhone app I had launched with a friend of mine soon turned to anxiety and subsequent dread at the thought of appearing on television. I had no previous experience of the media, unless you count a photograph in the chorus of the village panto in the local paper when I was 11 dressed as a sailor boy, and the capacity to ...
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Written by Julia Kukiewicz
Earlier this week, the Government announced that the UK’s four biggest broadband providers – BT, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and Sky – would start blocking adult content.
At least, that’s the impression readers of the major papers got.
The truth is the big four ISPs have only agreed to make their existing child protection software more easily available to new custo...
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Written by Lis Hubert
Several months ago, I read a post on the Harvard Business Review which highlighted a fantastic graduation speech by the COO of Facebook. Read Andrew Mcafee’s article “Sheryl Sandberg’s Graduation Speech for the Ages” here to be clued in. It was a great article about a phenomenal speech, and it’s always nice to see a C level women in the tech world highlighted for som...
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Written by Julia Kukiewicz
The gender gap in the way that we use technology is no closer to closing, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics.
The body found that, unsurprisingly, we’re generally more reliant on internet access than ever before: 77% of households have internet access and 66% of us (and a much higher proportion in younger age groups) have made pur...
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Social media | Technology
We would like to kindly ask our members to help us out. We have been nominated to take part in the National Online Recruitment Awards (NORA) in the ‘Best Specialist Jobsite’ category. The awards recognise the very best in UK online recruitment, from the perspective of jobseekers themselves.
The NORAs focus heavily on the value, service and protection afforded to the general public, in ca...
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Written by Julia Kukiewicz
Is Google+ a female-free zone?
Well, obviously not. A quick look at anyone’s circle can tell you that. But a few stories this week, like this one from Mashable, could have fooled us.
How male?
The sausage-fest warning was based on research from two sites: Social Statistics, which estimated that Google+ was 86.8% male, and FindPeopleonPlus, which put the figure a...
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Guest blogger | Social media | Women
Written by Elizabetta Camilleri
The latest craze in consumer technology is now ‘social’. It’s social this and social that, but isn’t it great to see that one of the most enjoyable activities a group of friends can do together – go shopping – has gone online as well. Finding the time to browse around Bond Street with friends, for most professional women is a luxury (in more sense than one)...
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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The STEM sector needs to increase its internshipprogrammes
The Science Council, incooporation with the Careers Research and Advisory centre recently released itsreport into the availability of STEM work experience placements andinternships. The data, collated from various sources, showed a mixed bag ofsom...
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