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Social Media Advantage and Disadvantage in Employment: A Critical Reflection Portfolio.

Note:  This is a personal writing and academic analysis and research of the definitions/answers of the questions have been taken into considerations accordingly and paraphrased and all the posters/illustrations have been referenced by Suhasini.  Text 1: 9 Myths About Social Media at Work 9 Myths About Social Media. Retrieved from Screen-Shot-2014-11-18-at-10.02.29-AM.png(1176×550) (tnwcdn.com) Text 1 Reflection: I chose this text as it challenges my assumptions of recruiters not using social media to the fullest for recruitment purposes. This text and the figures show how recruiters actually are planning to use social media at its best potential to hire great candidates while my assumptions were around 45-50% recruiters would consider using social media approach for hiring purposes as not many companies would reply on social media for recruitment. Also, I am very surprised to know that 30% of Google searches are related to employment which I personally believe that it sh...
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The role of social media, advantage and disadvantage: an argumentative analysis and writing focusing on the recruitment angle.

Note:  This is a personal writing and academic analysis and research of the topics have been taken into considerations accordingly and paraphrased and all the posters/illustrations have been made by Suhasini.  The role of social media, advantage and disadvantage: In this digital world, social media is playing a major role in the daily lives of people and companies. Nowadays, many companies are implementing the use of Web 2.0, social media as a branding tool for their reputation while some have started to use it for recruitment process. Although there are opposing statements, the role of the use of social media for recruitment purposes by recruiters and recruitment organizations is beneficial as it is an easier, time and cost-effective way of advertising the job, it enables the finding of hard-to-reach candidates from different parts of the world and it enables recruiters to first view the resumes of those applicants on their social media and digital footprint for better inte...
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The internet; World Wide Web; Relationship between WWW and Internet; Three purported differences between the WWW as it first emerged, and the more recent Web 2.0; API's and why are they significant to Web 2.0.

Note:  This is a personal writing and academic analysis and research of the definitions/answers of the questions have been taken into considerations accordingly and paraphrased and all the posters/illustrations have been made by Suhasini.  1.What is the Internet? It is a post WWII technology and telecommunications system which started in 1969 as the U.S Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Project Agency to facilitate immediate communication within the Department in case there are wars. It is a hardware and worldwide network of computers that are connected to each other over cables, phone lines, radio or satellite links. The network functions when the computer of each individual user is directly or indirectly connected to a server, which provides information and transfer it back to the server. The server is a fast computer having a big memory and storage space connecting many computers and devices so that the communication of information between these devices are done e...
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What is Creativity?

I personally believe: Creativity is when one uses thinking skills, ideation, imagination, art /graphics knowledge and putting these into practice to create an aesthetic work, art work, animation, video, visual/audio concept or to solve an issue. Everyone has a creative element and thinking or how they see things and execute them and that's the beauty of it. It can make sense to someone but not for the other person and that's okay as creativity should not be limited or standardized to limited ideas & concepts.
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