Monster.com Makes it Easier — to Network, to Connect to Jobs — with the …
August 1, 2011 by admin
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MAYNARD, Mass., Aug 01, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
As part of its mission to provide the world’s largest open,
interconnected network of job opportunities, Monster
Worldwide
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has introduced a slew of new resources that
make it even easier for people to find jobs and manage their careers.
These new Monster services expand ways for people to connect on some of
the worlds’ most popular social networks and mobile platforms, using new
social applications designed for professional networking, job hunting
and career management.
“While it’s nothing new that there are a slew of unemployed seekers
actively looking for a job, there are many employed workers that are
also on the hunt, but in a much more passive, informal way,” explained
Matt Mund, vice president of product management at Monster.com. “Our
intent is to make it easy for people to do both, using creative new job
and career apps for all the ways that they like to stay connected.”
BeKnown(TM): The first global professional networking app for Facebook
Unveiled
earlier this month, BeKnown(TM)
is a professional networking app designed to allow Facebook users to
establish a professional network on the world’s most popular social
platform. With BeKnown,
users can seamlessly identify and connect with their friends and
professional contacts from multiple sources and grow their professional
network, enhance their online professional identity and discover
enriching career opportunities. All while keeping social activity with
friends and family separate from work-related activity with professional
contacts. BeKnown is available for download at
http://apps.facebook.com/beknown
in 19 different languages, and is accessible by any Facebook user.
Check-in with Monster.com on Foursquare, Gowalla
Monster’s
mobile apps now support integration with popular check-in
applications such as FourSquare, and Gowalla. This allows users to
easily search for personalized jobs in cities where they have check-ins.
Expanding support on mobile apps for these service providers reflect
Monster’s continued commitment to the mobile audience and the adoption
of mobile devices for job search.
Monster.com Interviews — now available on the iPad
With identical functionality to the Monster.com
Interviews app for the iPhone, Monster.com has released an iPad
specific version of the same application. The application is free and is
designed to help job seekers prepare for the entire interview process —
from pre-interview, to the big day, to post-interview follow-up. For
more information and to download, please visit:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monster-com-interview-by/id426634637
Yahoo! Answers on Monster.com
Monster.com now features QA (questions
answers) on their career advice page for job seekers, the
answers of which are powered by Yahoo! Answers. This is a place where
users can search for career related questions they are looking for
answers to, and is tailored based on users’ recent jobs searched on
Monster.com. Users can access Yahoo! Answers via:
http://answers.monster.com
Supporting Resources:
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Visit the MonsterThinking
blog for regular insight and commentary on the latest hot button
issues, industry news and events shaping recruiting today
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Download screenshots of BeKnown
and Monster.com
Interviews on our Flickr page
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View a video introduction to BeKnown
at our MonsterVideoVault
YouTube page; also visit to check out our “How
Not to Network on Facebook” video and other how-to videos about
our family of mobile
applications
Connect with us:
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Twitter.com/monsterww
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Facebook.com/monsterww
About Monster Worldwide
Monster Worldwide, Inc.
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,
parent company of Monster(R), the premier global online employment
solution for more than a decade, strives to bring people together to
advance their lives. With a local presence in key markets in North
America, Europe, Latin America and Asia, Monster works for everyone by
connecting employers with quality job seekers at all levels and by
providing personalized career advice to consumers globally. Through
online media sites and services, Monster delivers vast, highly targeted
audiences to advertisers. Monster Worldwide is a member of the SP 500
Index. To learn more about Monster’s industry-leading products and
services, visit
www.monster.com .
More information about Monster Worldwide is available at about-monster.com.
SOURCE: Monster Worldwide
Monster Worldwide
Jessica Sutera, 978-823-2812
Jessica.sutera@monster.com
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Facebook, Twitter causing narcissism, insecurity: Oxford scientist
August 1, 2011 by admin
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CBR Staff Writer
Published 01 August 2011
Internet friendships, computer games could ‘rewire’ the brain, says the scientist
A scientist at Oxford university has said that social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are leading to narcissism and ‘identity crisis’ in users.
Oxford University professor of pharmacology Baroness Greenfield said that social networking sites have created a self-obsessed new generation who have short attention spans and need for validation, according to The Daily Mail.
Users have become like a toddler saying: ‘Look at me, Mummy, I’ve done this,’ says the scientist.
Greenfield also believes that Internet ‘friendships’ and computer games could ‘rewire’ the brain.
Reduced concentration, poor non-verbal skills, and inability to make eye contact during conversations are some ill effects of social networking sites, said Greenfield.
Greenfield told The Daily Mail, “What concerns me is the banality of so much that goes out on Twitter.
“Why should someone be interested in what someone else has had for breakfast? It reminds me of a small child (saying): “Look at me Mummy, I’m doing this”, “Look at me Mummy I’m doing that”.
“It’s almost as if they’re in some kind of identity crisis. In a sense it’s keeping the brain in a sort of time warp.’
Facebook has over 750 million users across the world.
Last month, a new study from the Nominet Trust had found that an overwhelming majority of parents in the UK fear their children are getting addicted to social networking site Facebook.
The research found that one-in-12 people is excessively dependant on the Internet. It also found that the “addiction” causes anger, depression and tension when users do not have access to the Internet.
Four-out-of-five parents fear that their children will become addicted to Facebook, while one-in-three parents think the Internet can ‘rewire’ the minds of children without their knowledge.
Deterioration of eyesight has also been observed in children who use the Internet for over three hours everyday.
However, Nominet said that the Internet has positive effects as well and ‘scaremongering and misinformation’ could deny the benefits it has to offer to children.
