Okay, let's be realistic. Which really comes first? That you work in a great environment doing the work you love, which makes you happy? Or that you're happy, which makes your workplace better and you come to love your work?

Here's what I think is a definitive answer from Shawn Achor in this wonderful, 12 minute video on TED. Shawn teaches at Harvard University, where he delivers lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at the university. Shawn researches positive outliers - people who are well above average on the "happy" scale - to understand where human potential, success and happiness intersect. Based on his research and 12 years of experience at Harvard, Shawn humorously describes how to increase happiness and meaning to create positive transformations.

You don't have to spend the majority of your adult life "spinning in a chair" at work. You can literally re-wire your brain and "be happier" first. What follows is a better life, and a better world for all.

Based on my previous experience as a recruiter, family and friends still look to me for help when searching for a job or ask me to advise their children on how to look for a job. I hate to turn them down. And I don't want to give them ancient, ineffective advice in today's market.

This explains my interest in this month's curation. I was fascinated with this Wall Street Journal article by staff writers Rachel Emma Silverman and Lauren Webber, which explains a relatively new social media trend of searching for a job using Twitter.

Apparently, some recruiters are beginning to experiment with the use of Twitter to look for candidates and gain insight into these potential employees. With 200 million active users, it makes sense that companies would turn to Twitter as a resource. As a result, job searchers are figuring out how to summarize their candidacy in 140 characters and promote themselves via Twitter's new feature, the 6- second video.

Even though Twitter hasn't taken over as the primary platform from which employers recruit, it certainly has changed my "see" as to how companies are using social media in their talent management process.

Click here for an excellent explanation of the phenomenon. You'll find information from the employer's point of view, along with samples of those 140 character CVs (curriculum vitae). There is also a 7-minute audio interview with Rachel Emma Silverman embedded within the article that helps provide perspective. Thanks to this article, I feel much better equipped to share current information with the job seekers in my life!

Is it time for you to create your own 140 character CV?