Recruitment 2.0

Friday 18 September recruitment roundup

We’ve condensed the week’s news to just a few links.  Read on for interesting stories and videos regarding recruiting, technology and other random topics…

• Things to ask before you re-do your web site
• The sex industry is infiltrating the workplace and undermining equality
• Is recruitment picking up?
• Banks prepare for graduate recruitment
• Search is your best source of traffic? Don't be so sure...
• Do international privacy rules apply to you?
• Saatchi boosts graduate job prospects

I couldn't resist this pic -- of President Obama. Apparently it is legit and not photo-shopped (he was demonstrating one ont he White House lawn). It's been dubbed "The Empire Strikes Barak..."

-Susannah

What's your digital tattoo?

Symantec is urging Internet users to consider their "digital tattoo" -- the potentially embarrassing electronic trail of comments and postings that many people leave online in social forums, such as Facebook and YouTube.

"Personal photos or outrageous comments can have dire consequences – if future employers were to see them - if not kept in check," the company said in a press release.

Consider the young Aussie that told his employer he would miss work due to illness, yet posted on Facebook that he was "not going to work...still trashed...sickie woo!"

Then there was "Lindsay", a young woman who put up disparaging comments about her job and her boss, forgetting he was a "friend" on her Facebook page and could read all her musings.

Many Generation X's don't realise the potentially disastrous consequences of what they write online. The Symantec survey found that:

• 35 percent of under-25s don’t worry about what they post online

• 32 percent of under-25s admit they want to delete parts of their ‘digital tattoo’

• 62 percent of under-25s put personal photographs on the web

So what's you digital tattoo? Do a quick Google search and find out....

-Susannah