Using the Internet and Social Media to Search for a Job

The job market is more competitive than ever for millions of workers around the world. In America, one reason right now is the slow recovery in job growth after the recession.
But other reasons involve changes in the needs of the American and global economies. In big developing economies like India and China, high turnover rates mean workers often move from job to job.
These days, many job seekers go online to connect with employers. Job candidates want to show they have a lot to offer. But in many cases they simply apply for a job title and list their work experience. Instead, they should describe the talents and abilities they could bring to an organization.
That is the advice of Steve Langerud, director of professional opportunities at DePauw University in Indiana. He advises students on career planning and often talks about workplace issues in the media.
He says social media sites are valuable when they show the abilities of job candidates and not just their job title and experience.
STEVE LANGERUD: "This really is a talent economy, and we're stuck with most job seekers presenting themselves in a job title mode. And I don't think it matches very well."
Steve Langerud says employers, too, should change their search methods. They should think harder about the skills they really need to help their organization reach its goals.
STEVE LANGERUD: "Because at the end of the day, it's still about getting the right people in the right place at the right time and then keeping them."
Ben Kirshner is the founder and chief executive of a media marketing company based in New York called Elite SEM. SEM is search engine marketing. His company's job is to help businesses improve their websites and search engine results.
Ben Kirshner says when his company is searching for candidates for new positions, it first looks within. It considers existing employees. After that, he says, social sites can be valuable for finding new people.
BEN KIRSHNER: "Twenty-five percent of our new hires come from social media. Seventy-five percent typically come from word of mouth."
In other words, three out of four people are found based on recommendations from others.
Elite SEM uses sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to learn about job candidates. LinkedIn is a networking site for professionals, so users might be more careful about what they say.
Mr. Kirshner says a site like Facebook can also provide a lot of information -- good or bad -- about a person. So pay attention to what you put on the Internet and what others put online about you.

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Mexico police find migrants in trailers

Police in Mexico's southern Chiapas state have found 513 migrants inside two trailers bound for the United States. Chiapas state police discovered the migrants on Tuesday while using X-ray equipment on the vehicles at a checkpoint in the outskirts of city of Tuxtla Gutierrez, the National Immigration Institute said in a statement. Police have also arrested four people accused of smuggling the migrants, who are from Central and South America and Asia, Chiapas state prosecutors said in a statement. The alleged smugglers tried to escape police but were chased down and captured, prosecutors said.

The immigration institute said 410 of the migrants were from Guatemala, 47 from El Salvador, 32 from Ecuador, 12 from India, six from Nepal, three from China and one each from Japan, the Dominican Republic and Honduras. There were 32 women and four children among them. The migrants told authorities they had agreed to pay $7000 to be taken to the US, the immigration institute said. Hundreds of thousands of migrants travel through Mexico each year in the hopes of reaching the US, but this was the largest group rescued in recent years.

In January, Chiapas state authorities discovered 219 migrants squeezed into a trailer. Most of those migrants were from Central America but six were from Sri Lanka and four from Nepal.

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Amateur Astronomers Capture Images of Stars 20 million

Amateur astronomer Nick Risinger (28) can be regarded as irresponsible. He left his job as marketing director in a company in Seattle, United States, and decided to walk to find the best places to photograph the sky with millions of stars. However, kenekatannyadeserves thumbs up. He managed to photograph the sky 37,440 image that is thenincorporated into an interactive 360 degree images are amazing. 5000 images millionsof pixels which represent the Milky Way and more than 20 million stars.

To take a picture, Risinger traveled to remote areas in the western United States andSouth Africa. Risinger divide the sky into 624 areas and take pictures of each game. It plans to begin filming when the new moon when the sky is very dark. To obtain sharp images, Risinger using six cameras on a tripod that fits with the rotation of the Earth.When multiple images for scientific use red and blue, green Risinger added to increasethe depth of the image. End of his adventures in January, began to unify the imageRisinger. With the software on his computer, he acknowledged all raster images andcombine them. He finished the project "crazy" that two weeks ago, the publication ofphotos on his website, skysurvey.org.

Risinger said: "This is not an image that can be used scientifically. This is forappreciation and education. "He added that the purpose of his mission is not money,but he hopes to sell the print version of the image to a website operated underexecution. Until now, millions of people have access to photos on skysurvey.org. On hiswebsite there is also an offer of donation to the projects Risinger continued walking andpictures of the sky much more can be published.

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