Posts tagged ‘Employment’
Facebook, Employers, and your username and password as a federated identity
This has been a very interesting week for employers and Facebook. I have been writing about this story over on Toolbox, here and here if you are interested in reading, but on this site I want to go a little deeper into the idea of asking prospective employees for a username and password [...]
What happens when your old boss starts bad mouthing you on social networks?
Note: Going through the back catalog of what I have written over here at Techwag, this one really popped out, because I never did find a solution for my friend. The incident of bad mouthing stopped after about 120 days, but there was so much bad blood after that between my friend, the company, and [...]
How to handle being fired
The recession still blazes on, and people are still losing their jobs right and left. A friend of mine was recently fired and as we sat drinking coffee in our other office, the question was “how do I handle this?” Handling being fired is not easy, it is not meant to be easy; it is [...]
So you say you want to innovate here are 5 things to look for
Innovation is hard; innovation also goes against the grain of entrenched interests in a company. Innovation can be scary, disruptive, and crosses departmental lines with stunning abandon. Innovation in a stove pipe or overly hierarchical company is not going to happen because Innovation is one of the scariest things that a company can do. If [...]