Social Media networks - a job salary premium?

Published: June 22, 2007, 3:45 am

Tags: facebook myspace personal thoughts social media

I found out in my second job that my new employer was equally interested in my network of contacts as they were in my work experience. When I moved into sales and marketing this was even more so. I read with interest a post (thanks for link to Steve Rubel) that at a recent conference presenters were saying just how the new generation of workers will expect employers to be embracing social media and having it as a tool. That got me thinking about me when I first started work versus my son and daughter and the value of our respective networks to our employers. My network' was primarily made up of school and sports clubs people. All my own age linked by school or membership of the clubs. I had their addresses and phone numbers but found when I moved to London for my first job over the a year or

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