Millennials aren’t only disrupting the consumer landscape, they’re changing the game for human resources. To say that the digital lifestyle of Gen Y is unique is an understatement. How they express themselves and what’s important to them is much different than the generations before them.

I left for vacation right when the blogosphere was going nuts about Cathryn Sloane’s article in NextGen Journal: Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25. Because I was under a strict no-social-media rule imposed by family, I had to surreptitiously read the hundreds of comments – and I couldn’t blog about it. That’s right. Dad said no Facebooking or texting while on vacation. He (my husband) and my two Millennial sons had demanded my undivided attention for the week. NO TWITTER!! So, now I have the wraps off. What about what Cathryn actually said? Should only people under 25 be Social Media Managers? What are the skills required for a first-class social media team?

“UNC Grad Seeks Non-Lame-Ass Job.” Upon posting a Craigslist ad with the aforementioned title, recent UNC-Chapel Hill graduate James Daigle received a slew of messages from HR workers asking him, “What are you doing?!” James has been taking a very unconventional approach to his job search and there is a lot you can learn from [...]

The web has changed so many aspects of our lives, that even certain practices we thought might not have changed are growing before our eyes. Career Networking has changed so much with the advent of social networking. Before, networking was about connections with people you directly knew, and you had to rely on many personal [...]

With people spending what seems like vast the majority of their waking hours in front of glowing screens (HD TVs, computer monitors, iPhones), high-tech ways of furthering careers have become quite popular.  Just try not to forget more traditional routes, as even cutting-edge companies can love a good job fair. On Friday, the first annual [...]

Did you know that Thursday January 28 was Data Privacy Day, an annual event celebrated in the United States, Canada, the UK and 26 other European countries? No, I didn’t either. Its aim is to raise awareness for consumers around privacy issues. One of the sponsors of Data Privacy Day is Microsoft who commissioned research [...]