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Business Practice

Job Descriptions Can Be Stupid

October 16th, 2009 by Andrew Swenson

I contend that people think, act, and express their passions at work in ways that don’t always fit into rigidly-defined department or job description boundaries:

  • Someone on the accounting staff may be a stud PHP programmer.
  • Someone on the web team may also be a phenomenal print designer.
  • Someone in marketing may have built the next killer app in his/her spare time.

But we’re often bound by our job descriptions, forced into completing only the tasks  we’re assigned in that proverbial big binder we all got on our first day. This, I think, is a shame.

Career

The Silent Interview: 3 Simple Ways Social Media Helps Job Seekers and HR

July 7th, 2009 by Andrew Swenson

With constant tales of people either (1) getting hired because their online presence is so phenomenal or (2) posting stupid things and getting caught, there’s no doubt that social media is factoring into the hiring process.

But it’s not always simple for HR. Chris Penttilla (@workplacediva) writes on Entrepreneur.com:

Social media sites have become an integral piece of the hiring puzzle; it’s how to leverage these sites most effectively as a recruiting tool that has companies scrambling.

Add corporate confusion to the already blurry professional/personal line in social media, and you’ve got yourself a real HR conundrum.