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HireFriday is a worldwide job search community that helps people ‘get seen, get found, and get hired.’ We do this by putting job seekers in touch with world-class career professionals who can accelerate their re-employment.  We started with a single Tweet: “Instead of FollowFriday, Let’s Launch #HireFriday and Put America Back To Work”. Our professional [...]

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Power posturing during an interview: should you do it? That all depends where you are in the recruitment process. Most applicant systems, and telephone screeners want to know if you are in the salary ballpark. Does that mean you should blurt out a number when a recruiter asks you what’s your salary range? Just say: [...]

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The people who participate are the heart and soul of the HireFriday Community. I am a mere moderator, a community manager, and founder, but it’s the job seekers, and my career development colleagues who make HireFriday the special community that it is. HireFriday is a way to reach out to one another’s followers. It’s as [...]

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That’s right, Monday, August 30th marks the first ever HireFriday show on Compassionate HR (my blogtalkradio show.) It brings me great pride to bring you the HireFriday Community members that make our space such a special place to be. In addition, The HireFriday All-Stars Show brings its with the best career development professionals in the [...]

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Margo's Musing…

August 26, 2010 by

Every now and then I wonder why shocktalkradio, shocking blogposts, and controversy sells. I spend hours researching and writing about my guests for my benign blogtalkradio show, Compassionate HR. those blog posts are rarely retweeted. As soon as I write a shock talk post, everyone retweets, and links back to it. Strange. My google analytics [...]

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Unemployment is hard. HireFriday can help. That is my message, and a reminder to job seekers that they are not alone. Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of the fact that there are jobs available, even in when unemployment rates are high, and the mainstream media reports bad news. Jobs are available. In fact [...]

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Lend a hand. Encourage a heart, and watch the world around you change.   Each of you is a  transformational force of nature.  Each of you, regardless of your age, color, religion, race, sexual preference, or political leanings,  has a dynamic, unique organizational perspective that no one else can bring to the workplace.  Why?  Because, [...]

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Since I wrote the first Guidelines For HireFriday in May of this year, our community has grown exponentially.  As an omnipresent social media community, or more accurately, cluster of online communities; we have learned new lessons about how to grow, and incorporate best practices that will benefit: the job seeker, the recruiting community, the job [...]

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Have you ever written a book? This is the first book I’ve written. I’m convinced it won’t be my last. One day, I want to write a book about my Father, Rolly Schwartz, the man who trained olympic champions. Rolly is in 7 halls of fame, has been honored, and met 2 American Presidents (Gerald [...]

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You do. So does everyone else. Why? Because social media communities are not a fad, they revolutionizing the way people do business, and if you are not harnessing new media into your business strategy, you will be left behind in a pile of dust. What, you say you like eating dust? Uh, I don’t believe [...]

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