LinkedIn disrupts biotech pharma recruiting

LinkedIn: The Quiet Force Transforming Biotech & Pharma
Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com

Luke Tim­mer­man

Mark Levin’s busi­ness is biotech­nol­o­gy, so it’s no sur­prise he knew zilch about a tech com­pa­ny called LinkedIn as recent­ly as two years ago. But these days Levin sounds like he can bare­ly do his job with­out…

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Recruiters who know social media are in demand

Recruiter Job Demand Remains Strong
www.recruiter.com, recruiter.com

Accord­ing to a new sur­vey by WANT­ED Ana­lyt­ics, there were over 14,000 jobs post­ed online in Sep­tem­ber for recruiters and other staffing pro­fes­sion­als. The num­ber rep­re­sents a 12 per­cent growth over Sep­tem­ber 2011, but a…

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The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100

Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net

I real­ly enjoyed read­ing a recent story in The New York Times Mag­a­zine about attempts to under­stand extreme longevi­ty — the weird ten­den­cy for cer­tain pop­u­la­tions to have larger-than-average num­bers of peo­ple who live well into their…

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The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100

Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing

Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing: This…
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Tom Wolfe on his soci­o­log­i­cal approach to writ­ing:

This atten­tion to sta­tus … start­ed when I was in grad­u­ate school and I was in a pro­gram called Amer­i­can Stud­ies, which was a mix­ture of dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines but one [in which…

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50 Amazing Job Perks

MoneyTalksNews, huffingtonpost.com

Mon­eyTalk­sNews:

Tech com­pa­nies will go to amaz­ing lengths to recruit tal­ent­ed employ­ees – and keep them from jump­ing to com­peti­tors. An increas­ing­ly impor­tant part of the equa­tion is ben­e­fits.

A recent New York Times…

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50 Amazing Job Perks

Measuring debate performance on Twitter

Measuring debate performance on Twitter – POLITICO.com

Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

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Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends

Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends
Dan Rowinski, readwriteweb.com

You know who you are. You are the employ­ee who ignores man­dates from the IT depart­ment. You use your own devices and apps to get the job done, com­pa­ny poli­cies be hanged. The IT man­ag­er might call you a prob­lem employ­ee, but actu­al­ly y…

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#The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

 

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English: Infographic on how Social Media are being used, and how everything is changed by them. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By FAST COMPANY STAFF, fastcompany.com

 

When it comes to social media success, the long game is more valuable than the short game, according to Hill Holliday’s SVP of digital strategy, Mike Proulx.

 

“Many brands and indi­vid­u­als mis­tak­en­ly obsess about short­cut tac­tics to gain f…

 

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#The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

 

How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder

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How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media

 

 

Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com

 

Pres­i­dent Barack Obama man­aged to steal an impres­sive amount of Gov. Mitt Rom­ney’s press cov­er­age with a few, cheap social media tricks, includ­ing the most retweet­ed post of the con­ven­tion. In com­par­i­son to the Repub­li­can Nation­al…

 

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