Top 10 tips: using social media to find work Charlie Duff is a digital engagement specialist and community manager for BraveNewTalent, a social platform enabling people to network with top employers Getting established on LinkedIn can be tough when you don't have work or industry contacts: For people just graduating, LinkedIn is a pretty barren area. With little experience and no work contacts (because they have been studying, of course) it's hard, a bit bewildering, and I think it's very easy for people who have been in work for years to forget that. I was still at university when Facebook started - yes I am that old - and I remember the buzz there was around it. I didn't go onto LinkedIn until I was about to leave my first job because I didn't see the relevancy. I recommend it now, but I know how it feels and I sympathise with those who feel they have nothing to add to their profile on there. Engage with a prospective employer rather than jumping straight in: I think there are two different routes.
The Next List Editors Note: Dan Selec is the founder and CEO of the nonPareil Institute, a hybrid software company and school located in Plano, Texas that teaches adults on the autism spectrum to write and develop apps, video games and iBooks. Watch his full profile this Saturday at 2:30p ET on “The Next List.” By Dan Selec, Special to CNN "You’re doing what?" And so it began. The core issue I noticed was that there were many programs for spectrum kids, but there weren’t a lot of choices for adults after high school. We formed the foundations of how to accomplish the organization's goals during those early months in our home. Once the nonPareil Institute moved to a new full-time facility, we talked about how much we would miss the day-to-day routine in our home. This is a core element I wanted to bring to the campus, where we now have 125 people, called crew members learning and working. At nonPareil Institute, we focus on three areas that will answer that question: Train, work and live.
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Foreign aid bombshell Too often, experts say, the money is used to subsidise wealthy consultants living expat lifestyles [] A Sunday Express investigation today highlights the scandal of the Coalition’s generous £12billion foreign aid budget, which is ballooning despite crippling austerity cuts across the rest of Whitehall. Money destined for starving children abroad is either being wasted by civil servants or pocketed by consultants cashing in on the Government’s desire to make Britain an “aid superpower”. Some charge up to £700 an hour, five times the average annual wage in Malawi, Africa. COST: Thought our foreign aid budget was for the poor? More than 1,000 consultancy firms were paid £485million to give “technical assistance” to poor countries between May 2011 and April 2012, according to accounts released by the Department for International Development. It is important to ensure such assistance is good value for money and is wanted by the recipient government ActionAid’s policy chief Lucia Fry
South Sudan orders North workers kicked out - Africa By MACHEL AMOS NATION CORRESPONDENT South Sudan has asked its public institutions, non-governmental organisations and businesses operating in the country to sack Sudanese nationals. The decision followed a May 26 circular issued by the Ministry of Labour, Public Service and Human Resource Development to put the Sudanese employees on one-month notice for having lost status following the independence of South Sudan on July 9, 2011. Ms Hellen Achiro, the undersecretary for Labour, said the positions must be declared vacant and re-advertised for South Sudanese to apply. “It is a right of [South Sudanese] nationals to get those positions. “For them to stay here, they must legalise their status. Tens, if not hundreds, of Sudanese from the far north and eastern Sudan, Darfur and the warring states of Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan states still hold their jobs as “nationals” despite the split of the country a year ago. Additional reporting by Xinhua