social media and your career

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Using Social Media to Your Benefit (and to others)

The use of social media, personal apps, games, and email in the workplace has become commonplace.  Instead of working, many employees are spending time on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, or Facebook feeds, online games, texting, personal emails, rather than working.  The cost to companies is steep in both time lost and worker productivity! Remember, using your […]

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Social Media Spammers: Why I Won’t Buy Your Stuff or Give You Free Help

Okay, you are on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc., and you are a jobseeker, need some career advice, or are a business owner. How do you develop a relationship with someone you don’t know? Well, right now the way many are trying to develop that rapport is by spamming connections the moment we accept their invite, and

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The Illusion

Did you watch the television news magazine 60-Minutes last evening (12/09/18)? One of their feature pieces was on how electronic devices are particularly habit forming, and social media plays on that dependency, serving to severely depress many teens. Despite our knowing inherently that social media comparisons are unreal, anxiety inducing, and limiting to your life, many still

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