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OK, so it has finally happened.  We’ve talked about it for years, we’ve argued about it in the bar and in the board room:



“Facebook will always be for my personal stuff and Linkedin is always for my professional stuff.”



Not so…

Should you care about LinkedIn Skill Endorsements? If you want to give people a better sense of what you know and get found by people who will want to pay you more money than what you’re making now, the answer is "absolutely."

While LinkedIn Recommendations (those brief little snippets of nice things that people say about you) add “social validity” to you as a person and tell others how you performed at a specific job, they don’t…

It appears that Brightfuse (brightfuse.com), CareerBuilder's attempt at building a LinkedIn killer (and probably the site with the largest resources at it's…

The question: does a social networking component weaved into a traditional job board have value?

The answer is not so easy. There’s been much discussion lately around this topic, and some pretty interesting M&A transactions in the space. We all know that networking is still very high on the list of ways that the people find jobs. Through friends or family, at church or synagogue, at the gym or in the office – networking can give the jobseeker…

Back to Basics

November 12th, 2007 -- by…