Articles by Didier Dubois & Émilie Pelletier

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The Pinterest phenomenon: Less text, more images

  Those of you who follow social media news will surely have heard about Pinterest(1), the “new” social media phenomenon. In just a few months, this platform has attracted more than 10 million users, predominantly women. Users will tell you, we like or we don’t like Pinterest. But if you like this platform, you become completely dependent on it. Beyond recreation, does this social networking site provide opportunities for organizations? What about recruitment? Can Pinterest be used for recruiting?


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Here’s why we’re wary of clouds…

The pros and cons of cloud computing   In the last few months, there has been a real war of clouds. All the big players are going there with their solution to let us store our data online.


Opinion

Virtualize your CV

Traditional paper CVs have been getting closer and closer to disappearing. The problem is not that paper is no longer in fashion, but that there are a multitude of other solutions that are much faster, more economical and efficient and that save trees.


Call to order

Social Media referrals: building networks in the context of recruiting

The usefulness of social media in recruiting is now well established. However, there is still much to learn about the best way to make the most use of these tools for identifying and recruiting top talent. Faced with a proliferation of websites, many recruiters tend to be scattered rather than choosing a well planned method.


Call to order

Facebook knows everything about you, even if you don’t have a Facebook account!

Perhaps you have always resisted Facebook; there’s no chance, you say of creating an account on Big Brother. Well, whether you like it or not, Facebook has perhaps created a file on YOU.


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