Recruitment

Headhunters have been digging around digital dirt, ever since Google became a verb. Since there’ll be a few politicians looking for new jobs after the election, I thought it’d be amusing to analyse their tweets from an employment perspective and ask “would I, as a headhunter, offer a politician a job based on their twittering?” 

Should have avoided the ranga tweet

I’ll disclose from the outset that my analysis is based on no more than my past six months hanging out in the twitter-verse building up my business, and from my time as a recruiter. For something more sensible and scholarly take a read of this research: Social media and the 2007 Australian election.

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  • Daniel says:

    08:15pm | 03/08/10

    O Farrell is just as bad as Abbott. Off the cuff and totally reckless. Wake up and vote Greens. Read more »

  • James Evangelidis says:

    04:47pm | 03/08/10

    Good article Karalyn. Interesting insights. Barry’s faux pas reminds me of the career killer committed by Catherine Deveney on Twitter back in May this year. Its amazing how 4 lines of text can change what the world thinks of you! Regards, James http://www.howtogetajobwith.com Read more »

 

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