The hiring process for jobs and internships is changing. More and more employers are turning to social media to filter and find the best applicants and a new infographic from Online Colleges sheds some light on how employers are using social media in their hiring process and how job and internship seekers can use sites like Facebook and LinkedIn to their advantage.
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Pat Gotham won a contest sponsored by Affect, a communications agency based in New York City. In this guest post, Pat describes how social media got him the internship, as well as the role social media is playing in his summer in the Big Apple.
Pulling a page straight from the Charlie Sheen playbook, a prominent ad agency just hired its summer interns based on a search conducted solely through Twitter. First Charlie Sheen and now an established advertising firm, it begs the question: is Twitter #winning as the new LinkedIn?
GrouperEye is a new site that has launched as a marketplace for companies to find students to help them out with particular projects. The idea is to find students that are passionate about what they do, and will be able to benefit from this type of “internship.” The projects they work on are listed on GrouperEye as real time cases, which are formatted as competitions, giving the companies fresh perspectives and budget-conscious results. Below is an excerpt of an interview I had with Ted Williams, the President and Founder of GrouperEye.
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