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Can You Really Tweet for a New Job? - For all the potential damage a misplaced tweet or Facebook message can cause when searching for a job, these oft-maligned utilities can aid you in your search, too. Barbara Kiviat, writer for Time magazine, talks with us about her recently published article entitled “Using Twitter and Facebook to Find a Job.” Barbara tells how one man used social networking tools to find a new job after losing his old one, and explains how you can do the same. Also, peek behind the curtain at employers to learn the most tried-and-true methods that HR departments use when hiring new employees, and how using sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn may help job searches exponentially. 

Guests include:

Barbara Kiviat, staff writer for TIME

About Barbara Kiviat from (Time.com):

Barbara Kiviat is a business staff writer for TIME, where she covers
consumers and the economy, general economic trends and the real
estate market. Her most recent stories have included both human-
interest and analytical pieces on the worldwide economic crisis, and
she also recently profiled Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
 
Since joining TIME in 2003, Kiviat has written on topics ranging from
banks and finance to retail and consumer psychology. She has helped
cover scandals involving WorldCom, Martha Stewart, Dick Grasso,
and the mutual fund and insurance industries. Additionally, Kiviat has
contributed to cover stories focusing on drug importation, workforce
outsourcing and home ownership, and she posts regularly on
TIME.com’s business blog, “The Curious Capitalist.”
 

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