Lunch Break: Tech Tools That Can Help And Harm Your Job Search

What's the defining characteristic of working in the digital age? Computers have changed many things, but the Internet and social media provide workers with greater ability to both promote and express themselves. Especially when you feel that you've lost your job unfairly. Given that "anyone with a Facebook page, Twitter account or Tumblr feed can issue a very public kiss-off to a former boss or company," as an essay in TheNew York Times from this week by Amy Lee Ball notes, people are "abandoning the conventional career advice about not bad-mouthing an employer when leaving a job." See below for the top reads from this week on how technology is shaking up the workplace.