10. We are living in exponential times 31 billion searches are performed on Google every month …this was 2.6 billion in 2006
11. - Over 150,000 new videos per day - 300,000,000 blogs and counting. How much time do you have to look at these?
12. Changing workplace We are currently preparing our students for jobs that don’t exist Using technology that has not been invented To solve problems that we do not even know are problems yet
15. Our trust levels…. Only 20% of people trust advertising. But 78% of people trust the recommendations of their network.And 33% trust their selection of blogs. Source: Neilsen Trust in Advertising. Oct 2007
20. Boolean operators ...what is a boolean AND + Cinema AND Dublin OR | “Birthday cake” or “Anniversary cake” NOT - “Cheap laptops” NOT Dell ( ) Gift AND (“Birthday cake” OR “Anniversary Cake” OR Buns OR sweets) “ ” “Brown Thomas” as opposed to Brown Thomas Intitle/Inurl: Returns documents with the keyword in the title or in the document Filetype: filetype.ppt Related: Shows pages that are similar to that webpage
21. There are more… subject: author: intext: location: source: allintext: inanchor: phonebook: define: Check them out....
22. An example of a search that you can do I am looking for a Business Analyst based in Dublin with a Telecommunications background and ideally who once worked for Aviva
75. I want to find java developers in Dublin I want to only search Facebook I want to look for words like Association or Group I want it to be specific to Dublin I want the word java and I do not want jobsites linkdomain:facebook.com (group OR association OR organization) “Java Developer" AND Dublin –jobs
86. How to use it for recruitment The “Long Game” – get people to follow you and want to listen to what you have to say; 2. Use to post jobs; 3. Use it to find candidates on line who are “tweeting”.