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re: What Should I Ask My Consultant?

Agha — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:08:32 GMT

A very well written and absolutely on the dot advise. This is the way forward for people who are in the process of engaging consultants.

re: Why is the MBA important?

Gail Cavanaugh — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:36:35 GMT

I feel my experiences in taking MBA courses has helped in starting a business. I have two courses to go and I can remember not know how to get a business off the ground when I didn't have the courses behind me.

I have over 100 people subscribed to my blog and I don't think I would have attempted this if I hadn't taken the courses.

re: How to get hired if you are the best

Reem Jacob — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:10:01 GMT

The blog was really helpful. It helped me realise as a job seeker, How I stand.

re: The etiquette of laptops in meetings

Paul Steynberg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:59:29 GMT

I think using laptops in a meeting must be specific to either companies or countries. I had NEVER seen this done until I spent a week at Microsoft in the US. I come from South Africa and it is considered rude to even sms from your phone during a meeting. I have also not seen this in the UK. Would be interesting to take a poll to see if this is unique to a country or company culture.

re: I'm ready for facebook to grow up a little

Heather Hamilton — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:18:48 GMT

rbny - recruiters do a lot of "cold calling". They will generally have in mind indsutries/companies/job titles of people that interest them. The fact that facebook stores this information makes it a tool for recruiters.

On the flip side, if you were interested in working for a specific company and could find the e-mail address of a recruiter from that company on facebook, thus allowing you to by-pass the career site, would you utilize that info?

Crafty recruiters are going to use whatever they can find as long as it meets their needs, regardless of whether that use was intended or not. Every time I see a new ap on facebook, I think "how can I use this?". I think once it becomes more obvious that recruiters will use facebook, someone will develop aps for them.

Craig - my team would be happy to test out whatever you are building!

re: I'm ready for facebook to grow up a little

Sergio — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:13:08 GMT

Yo pienso que puede ser parte de la creacion de una comunidad de clientes potenciales, que se puede completar con herramientas operacionales de CRM

re: I'm ready for facebook to grow up a little

rbny — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:06:59 GMT

I still have a hard time thinking of Facebook as a "networking tool." As a recent college grad, Facebook would be the last place I would think of to network with professionals. The main audience for the website started out with college students, as the website was only open to those with a .edu email address. Now that it has opened up to the public, I feel as if the site is being torn in too many directions.

The applications that are being designed for the website, to me, are not really directed towards networking with professionals, because Facebook was never really designed to be used for such a purpose.

I don’t think I will ever be able to use Facebook as a networking tool. I plan on just transitioning over to the more professional “grown-up” LinkedIn.

Just my thoughts on the matter…

re: The etiquette of laptops in meetings

mwiley — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:53:03 GMT

Agree - it always disolves into emails and distraction. The meeting runs faster if the laptops and Blackberrys and phones are turned off.

re: I'm ready for facebook to grow up a little

craigde — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:28:33 GMT

Interesting post Heather. We on the Dynamics Community team agree with you wholeheartedly. We are working on an update for this site that will allow business orientated networking for our users. We are also investigating having this interop with Facebook and LinkedIn. Its going to take us a while to get this done so it will be laterthis year but its coming.

re: The etiquette of laptops in meetings

craigde — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:16:17 GMT

I agree completely...sometimes a meeting seems like a room full of people doing email.

re: Why is the MBA important?

Kanak — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:40:09 GMT

Real practical one. The concept of ideal candidate is not something limited to some specific section only. Possibilities should be screened out and admitted.