Many people would not relate asparagus to an employee when in reality, they are a lot alike.  In fact, the vegetable, asparagus is the ideal type of employee for any organization!  There are many reasons why asparagus is so great for an organization.  Every employee should try to take on some qualities of the asparagus in their everyday work life!

Why is the asparagus the perfect employee?

Asparagus is flexible.  Flexibility is a great quality to have in many different organizations.  When something unexpected comes up a flexible employee will be able to handle the situation better than someone who is not flexible!  Also, if there is a particularly heavy load one week, a flexible employee will be willing to work the extra long hours in order to get the extra work done!


Asparagus has a good shelf life.  Asparagus does not spoil super quick.  Any organization would love an employee to stay for a while.  high turnover rates are never fun.  If employees stay for a while, it’s great for everyone!


Asparagus is green!  Green is the way to go these days!  The more employees that a company has that want to go green, the better.  Less paper will be wasted.  Less trash would be created.  The green employees would be more likely to help think of initiatives for the organization to go green!  


As you can see, asparagus is the ideal employee!  Starting today, try to be a little bit more like asparagus in your everyday work life!!



 
I'm sure you have all heard the quote "it's not who you know, it's what you know," but in today's society, this is more important than ever.  The social media sites that are becoming facets for getting jobs are Twitter and LinkedIn.  These two sites provide ways to interact with followers and connections in order to find jobs.

According to this article, http://www.weknownext.com/blog/for-your-career-its-not-what-you-know-its-who-you-know , about four months ago, "44% of employees believe the key to their success lies in “who you know”. Not far behind was job performance (39%)."   This is becoming more evident with the use of social media sites.  It is crazy that "who you know" ranks before job performance.  Who would have thought that this would have been possible 10 years ago?

It will be more likely for a company to hire someone that an employee refers than someone who has a few more years experience in the subject.  With websites liked LinkedIn, it is important to make your connections known  to the public than the experience that you have.  

Let's face it.. It is becoming more and more important to know more people in order to make connections for jobs than to have the skills and expertise to beat out all of the rest of the candidates. 

What do you all think?  How did you get your job?  Was it because you had a connection at the company?  Do you think social media will affect the way that people get jobs?

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