Online Career Tips

By Greg Peters, Business2Community.com
Special to Online Career Tips

Remember way back in 2012 when we had good old candidate Mitt Romney and his binders full of women to kick around?

Those were the days, weren’t they? Life was good, tweeting was easy and the cotton was high.

Romney offered up those “binders full of women” like a batting-practice fastball to a home run-starved big leaguer in need of a game-winning dinger. He made the gaffe during the second presidential debate, and by the following morning he had created a cottage industry of satire on the InterWeb.

Romney’s comment went from debate misstep to a viral sensation in the land of Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and all things cyber-ly considered as the phrase rose to cult status. By the next day, the Facebook page “Binders Full of Women” had 274,000 likes; Tumblr pages were created, at least one career had been saved and scores of tweets had been sent.

While there were binders they weren’t literally filled with women, what the Republican presidential hopeful so ungracefully referenced were the folders filled with the resumes of women that had been submitted to him as governor of Massachusetts when he sought out qualified female candidates for state cabinet posts.

By Lisa Swan
Special to Online Career Tips

If you have logged into LinkedIn, the popular business networking site, over the past few months, you may have been asked to endorse some of your connections’ skills. Or perhaps you have gotten email notification that a connection has endorsed your skills. So what does this all of this mean, and how does this differ from a LinkedIn recommendation? Here are some tips:

By Gwen Teckel, Business2Community.com
Special to Online Career Tips

For many, the term “social media” conjures up cute cat videos and the latest celebrity meme. But memes can take many forms. Increasingly, businesses are taking advantage of social media channels to create buzz about themselves, their brands and their products and services. According to a 2012 survey by small business online community Manta, small businesses have caught the bug: 90% of owners are now networking online, with 74% believing it to be equal to or greater than in-person networking.

By Madeline Kronfeld
Online Career Tips Contributor

I know what you’re thinking. Isn’t LinkedIn just a networking tool for business professionals? It may not make sense at first but trust me; you’ll be doing yourself a favor by creating a professional profile while you’re still earning a degree.

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