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According to a recent study by CareerBuilder.com, 37 percent of companies use social networking sites to research candidates.

While that figure is significantly less than I would have guessed, Jobacle has a great article about how to use social media when job hunting.

They even talk about Google Plus, which is a huge.............

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Weekend Listicles

Here are a few light reads to leisurely browse this weekend:

Connecting Made Easy: 5 Steps to Improve Your Networking As it says in the opener of the article, sometimes we forget why we or that we even have a network. These are some good ways to change that.

20 LinkedIn Tips Short, sweet, and incredibly helpful to those who get a little lazy about their LinkedIn account. No, I'm not talking about myself why would you even think that come on now let's be reasonable.

5 Tips for Finding Work After a Long Bout of Unemployment If you've ever been there or are currently there, this is a rough situation to be in. Super glad an article like this came along, though  it was a few months too late for me (thankfully :3).

4 Steps to Breaking Your Job Hopping Habit You job-hoppers know who you are.

25 Surprising E-Mail Stats This one's just plain cool. Totally geeked out about it.

That's all, folks!