Social Media Screening: Nearly 50% of surveyed employers screened.

For those military job seekers, careful what you post on social media. Roughly 50% of employers routinely screen social media before hiring.

http://mashable.com/2009/08/19/social-media-screening/

New Recruitment and Retention Numbers

In a release from last week, recruitment and retention is up in the Regular component and down in the Reserve component of the Canadian Forces:

http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/news-nouvelles/news-nouvelles-eng.asp?cat=00&id=3359

A couple of Reserve numbers caught my eye, the first one being "Paid Strength" of 24 265, this number is only 8 more uniformed members since I joined in 2005. Given that at the same time in 2009 we had 26 293 uniformed members, I am seriously questioning the retention side of the equation for the Reserves. What are we doing to lose so many members in one year? I would like to see more explanation for this. The other number that caught my eye was the dramatic reduction in the Supplementary Reserve. We went from a high of 40 000 in 2005 to only 16 138 this year. Why such a dramatic reduction? Are those numbers being redistributed elsewhere?

If anyone understands these numbers more intimately I would love to hear your comments.