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Facebook Profiles Can Predict Job Performance

Facebook Logo 150x150 Facebook Profiles Can Predict Job PerformanceHere’s another reason for recruiters to be nosing through your Facebook page: Academic studies from Northern Illinois University, the University of Evansville, and Auburn University suggest that your Facebook profile can predict on-the-job performance.

Researchers say they found a strong correlation between job performance and Facebook profiles that had previously been scored for traits like conscientiousness, agreeability, and intellectual curiosity.

If the academic studies are correct, Facebook could become a job-screening tool, actually taking away the ability to create a fake personality for interviews that doesn’t match a candidates typical behavior. 

More details at Gawker and The Wall Street Journal.

Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma, Chameleon

Damn, That’s a Tiny Chameleon. Gawker provided details on Brookesia micra, comma chameleon 298x300 Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma, Chameleonperhaps the smallest chameleons in existence. How small, you ask? Small enough to fit on a fingertip, or a match head.

The little buggers live on a small, isolated island near Madagascar. Adults grow to only about an inch in length, making them among the smallest known vertebrates.

This photo shows a juvenile. The scientists among you can learn more at online science journal Plos One.

The Greeks Must Have Had a Word For IT

This video is amazing for several reasons: An eclipse-predicting computer made out of Legos is based on the Antikythera mechanism, a Greek original from 2,000 years ago found in a shipwreck in 1901. Modern-day X-ray tomography revealed the device’s innards, and scientists and engineers were able to figure out what it was. That the ancients had such sophisticated knowledge of gears and computing was information lost to civilization for 2 milennia! Nature Magazine has more details about the original Antikythera mechanism.

Getting SEO Just Right

SEOMoz is a must-have for most people in search engine marketing, and this goldilocksseo 300x214 Getting SEO Just Rightgem of a graphic from them illustrates why. Their chart demonstrates how to get the right balance in SEO using the Goldilocks story as a jumping-off point to deliver its message. Memorable, succinct, and I’ll bet everybody is passing it around today.

February 1 is Change Your Passwords Day

Our friends at Gizmodo remind us that the first day of the shortest month is not just for groundhogs. It’s also international Change Your Passwords Day. So celebrate in style by being safe and changing your password. Read the Gizmodo article to find out more about password security.

What the job interviewer really wants to know

Inside the Recruiter’s Head: What He’s Really Asking You During the Interview.

The interviewer will ask a lot of questions, but really only wants to know 3 things:

  • Can you do the job?
  • Will you do the job?
  • Do you fit the company culture?

Read the article to find out how all interview questions are asking about one of these 3 things.

Here’s a novel way to make money on teh internetz

How I Made $70 Selling Myself on Twitter.

Journalist discovers how to make some quick cash by demeaning himself on the internet. If you’re not too proud, you can sell yourself on Twitter as a way for someone else to promote their website. You’ll have to read the details yourself.

 

Facebook tells you who’s into kinky workplace sex

Use Facebook’s Targeted Ads to Find Out How Many People Are Into Kinky Sex in Any Workplace.

It’s come to this. Facebook’s gathering and segmentation of user data allows them to provide information on just about anything you can think of. In this case, how people who work at particular companies get their freak on.

Supply-Side Hero Arthur Laffer Sued for Hyping Ponzi Scheme

Supply-Side Hero Arthur Laffer Sued for Hyping Ponzi Scheme.

He was craptastic back then, and he’s even more craptastic now. Innocent-until-proven-guilty author of Reagan-era voodoo economics, economist Arthur Laffer now accused of running a ponzi scheme.