a column by Jon Danielsson for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
As central banks accumulate ever more job functions, their reputation risk increases.
This column offers a cautionary tale from Iceland where, after the central bank was put in charge of capital controls, it was subject to severe attacks because of perceived mistakes in how the capital controls were enforced. The accumulation of powers erodes a central bank’s independence and subjects it to regulatory paralysis.
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Showing posts with label reputation. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Why Google might be killing your job search
Abridged from USNews.com for The Career News Volume 8 Issue 41 (October 2008)
Columnist Anita Bruzzese solicits advice on managing your online reputation.
"I had a client who had a reputation as a hard-nosed manager. After losing his position after an acquisition, he found himself in a job search for the first time in a number of years. Because he was highly respected, he thought the search would go quickly. On several occasions, he would get to the final stages prior to hiring with a company showing great enthusiasm, only to suddenly be dropped from consideration. At this point he came to see me. We did a Google search and found that when we searched his name, No. 5 in the Google search results was a link to an industry forum page where he was being trashed anonymously by some people that had worked for him, calling him an unfit manager. Here's what we did. We changed everything (resumé, cover letters, online profiles, etc.) to his full name. People will typically Google what is on the resumé. When his full name was Googled, nothing negative showed up. We took advantage of a few key online profiles like LinkedIn. Google loves it and for most people, if they have a LinkedIn profile, it will show up first if you Google them. I also had my client write a book review on his favorite management book and post it on Amazon. This gave the opportunity to show a little thought leadership and demonstrate his management knowledge. This helped counter the negatives. The result was that within weeks Joshua was hired."
Columnist Anita Bruzzese solicits advice on managing your online reputation.
"I had a client who had a reputation as a hard-nosed manager. After losing his position after an acquisition, he found himself in a job search for the first time in a number of years. Because he was highly respected, he thought the search would go quickly. On several occasions, he would get to the final stages prior to hiring with a company showing great enthusiasm, only to suddenly be dropped from consideration. At this point he came to see me. We did a Google search and found that when we searched his name, No. 5 in the Google search results was a link to an industry forum page where he was being trashed anonymously by some people that had worked for him, calling him an unfit manager. Here's what we did. We changed everything (resumé, cover letters, online profiles, etc.) to his full name. People will typically Google what is on the resumé. When his full name was Googled, nothing negative showed up. We took advantage of a few key online profiles like LinkedIn. Google loves it and for most people, if they have a LinkedIn profile, it will show up first if you Google them. I also had my client write a book review on his favorite management book and post it on Amazon. This gave the opportunity to show a little thought leadership and demonstrate his management knowledge. This helped counter the negatives. The result was that within weeks Joshua was hired."
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Trashing your info
I wrote a post this morning this morning about businesses finding their information "trashed" through negative comments being posted to various online fora.
Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends has provided some advice on how to counter this damaging trend.
I thought:
a) I wonder whether it's not just business but information services that find that reputations have been lost through malicious comment; and
b) if you would link through and read about a charity site which I support called Answer4Earth.
Tenuous joining of two stories? Not really.
I support Anita's work but find much of it irrelevant to the UK (as she well knows since I not only read her blog regularly but am also Facebook friends with her) and until VERY recently Answer4Earth was very US-centric in its questions. I found it very difficult to get beyond level 15 because I had to keep guessing which person had done what in a baseball or Super Bowl event. No more! As promised Answer4Earth now recognises where you are from so please, please join me in looking at the ads and planting trees.
Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends has provided some advice on how to counter this damaging trend.
I thought:
a) I wonder whether it's not just business but information services that find that reputations have been lost through malicious comment; and
b) if you would link through and read about a charity site which I support called Answer4Earth.
Tenuous joining of two stories? Not really.
I support Anita's work but find much of it irrelevant to the UK (as she well knows since I not only read her blog regularly but am also Facebook friends with her) and until VERY recently Answer4Earth was very US-centric in its questions. I found it very difficult to get beyond level 15 because I had to keep guessing which person had done what in a baseball or Super Bowl event. No more! As promised Answer4Earth now recognises where you are from so please, please join me in looking at the ads and planting trees.
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