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SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues.
This week we asked, Would you rather integrate your personal and professional social media profiles or keep them separate? The results:
- I like keeping them separate: 85.76%
- I’d like to have one profile for everything: 11.65%
- I don’t think it matters: 2.59%
It’s clear from the results that the vast majority of us would prefer to keep our personal and professional social media profiles separate.[…] Continue Reading »
Horrible! That is the most accurate word that I can find to describe Friday’s employment report. The 69,000 jobs created in May as measured by the Establishment Survey shows the economy at stall speed because methodology used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has a +50,000 upward bias to it.
The official (U-3) unemployment rate rose to 8.2%, from 8.1%, because labor-force participation — the denominator in the equation — rose by 422,000.[…] Continue Reading »
Many workers who stuck it out at awful jobs during the recession are staying put, even as the economy improves, according to a survey.
The survey, conducted by online job-search service TheLadders, found that 88% of employees are experiencing some level of job dissatisfaction. Meanwhile, economic indicators such as the unemployment rate, manufacturing activity and the stock market have experienced gains, suggesting there are opportunities for workers seeking greener pastures.[…] Continue Reading »
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