Not convinced that you need to manage your online reputation? Don’t believe your sassy Facebook commentary could affect your ability to land a job interview? Check out this “Dear Lucy” — and marvel at how tolerant, mature and funny (Kate) the responses are. But don’t be too sure a potential employer would react this way if it were their job to hire you.
Also on the Web:
Fistful of Talent considers whether the “where else are you going to get a job?” defence is any good as a retention strategy. What do you think?
How do you audit a fund manager’s risk management, asks Felix Salmon. How indeed?
Tiffany’s disappointing sales beg the question: should luxury brands cut prices or hold out in order to preserve their cachet beyond the bad economy? (According to Vogue, Chanel maestro Karl Lagerfeld says bling is dead anyway.)
“Steve Jobs is not Apple.” But he is “bigger than Bill Gates”.
And, “stop the bad news, we want to get off”. Quite.
