He knows the SCORE: Raising Cane’s is helping to promote SCORE’s upcoming seminar on how to start and manage a business. Radio and TV ads featuring Cane’s founder Todd Graves are now airing. Graves says this is his way of giving back to the organization, which helped him get his restaurant chain started. The next daylong SCORE seminar will be held Saturday at Bon Carre Business Center, to register or for more details, click here.
Watch what you post: The number of companies who say they screen potential employees based on what they post on social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace has more than doubled in the past year, from 22% to 45%. Thirty-five percent of the companies who participated in the CareerBuilder survey say they have not hired employees based on content they found on social networking sites. The biggest factor in not hiring was job candidates posting provocative or inappropriate photographs or information, while references to drug and alcohol use was the second biggest disqualifier.
