11. Should Kogod encourage Social Resumes?

This week The Boss is going to discuss a term he had never heard of until today: social resumes. Brazen Careerist has recently added a social resume tool to their website which allows users to highlight ideas, blog posts, tweets, network conversations, and content you have created elsewhere. Users are still able to list and post standard resumes to the site but the whole idea of the tool is to help give employers a snapshot of your professional self based on things you do while online. I must say I think this is a very interesting idea. My only concern is how will employers respond to this because since the content is controlled by the user it doesn't give the full picture of the applicant so how seriously will social resumes be considered and are they even worth being created? If there become enough users making social resumes then this may become a great recruiting tool but until then I think that most students should be encouraged to find jobs through more traditional tools. To learn more about social resumes read this article Brazen Careerist Launches Social Resumes.

On another note, I recently came across an New York times article which discusses a new software, Social Sentry, that will automatically monitor employees activity on various social networking sites. Employees of companies as well as people searching for jobs need to become even more aware and protective of the things they post on social networking sites because if you are posting things deemed inappropriate your job search will be even harder and things like social resumes will do you no good.

That's all for this week y'all. Time for the Bosssss to get some well needed rest, until next time...

10. Online Collaboration

What's good y'all? I'm just gonna jump right into it this week. Online collaboration is a very valuable tool that even 1st graders in NJ are taking advantage of. Technology is really changing the way we learn, its kinda crazy. I don't even think that I had access to the internet in the 1st grade. The only thing schools' need to remember to do is block off certain sites which are not appropriate for all the little ones. By utilizing the internet at such a young age it is going to prepare young children for high school/college/real world far more than previous generations because online collaboration is one of the most helpful aspects that can used to complete homeworks, write papers, and work on group projects. If you want even more information about online collaboration in schools then check out the article I read.

The second article I read discussed how corporate culture drives online collaboration and not technology. I couldn't agree more with this article. If the corporate culture that you work in takes part in online collaboration and encourages/requires you to use it then you will but if not it is very easy to ignore online collaboration. The technology is there and will always be there but if the corporation doesn't make it apart of their culture then its something, besides IT people, that will not be utilized.

I suggest you guys to check out both articles. The Bosssssss is peacing out y'all...CHURCH.

9. Virtual Teamwork

The Boss is back from his spring break festivities in Seattle, not quite ready for school but ready to blog. This week I read "How to Pick your Million Dollar Crew" along with "6 Ways to Build Trust with your Virtual Team". I believe that virtual meetings between teams can add value to face to face interactions but virtual teams by themselves face many obstacles for success.

Being a senior in Kogod, I have been apart of many teams, however, none of them have been purely virtually based. In order to be most effective, I think that teams must have some kind of face to face interaction before they are able to create the trust necessary in order to be successful virtually. There is a lack of trust in virtual groups that makes it far more difficult to be efficient and successful.

I have been apart of groups where you choose your group and ones where your professor chooses them for you. I think it would be much easier to work virtually with a group that you choose verses one that is chosen for you.

The best groups I have been apart of are ones that set up times to meet up and then divide work up to be completely separately with communication continuing through gmail/gchat/google docs.

To conclude, I think that virtual teamwork is a very important aspect of successful groups but that it needs to be complemented with some kind of face to face interaction.

bosssssssssss OUT.