Today’s news brings us the story of 13 Virgin employees from Britain sacked due to inappropriate discussion about their employer and the customers they serve. Article here 

Treated right, there is nothing more beneficial to your career than effective networking. It opens doors, bypasses HR departments and gets you recommendations that you never can get from hitting the newspaper classifieds or going to the job boards and applying for a job “cold”. 

Social networking sites can also be the worst thing that can happen to your career if you abuse the privilege. Remember the Internet rule: there is nothing private on the internet! Keep saying it until you believe it! Ask yourself before your fingers hit the keyboard–would the managing director want to see this?

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