Archive for December, 2009

Your Next Job Interview : Via Webcam?

Ray Sweger is a 25-year-old operations manager with a mid-market financial firm who landed the job he wanted 2,000 miles from home, not by flying out for an interview but by answering employment questions over a webcam. Although video résumés are controversial and have not been accepted by corporate America, video interviews conducted over the [...]

Webcam site attracts thousands

VISITORS to the Hawick webcam in Central Square almost doubled last Thursday and Friday. While daily visits have been in the region of between 100 to 422, Common-Riding week saw a huge influx of people logging on to catch a glimpse of the celebrations, with the number rising to a staggering 841 on Thursday and [...]

Facebook users beware…

Facebook users have been warned they will be among targets of a huge increase in cyber crime next year. Internet scammers are increasingly hacking into personal profiles on social networking sites to defraud the account holder’s friends, said one expert. David Hall, from internet security company Symantec, said most people were wise to email scams [...]