Today's blog is all about the wonderful social communication machine that is Facebook. Today in Ales 204 lab we had to create a Facebook page that could potentially be used in our professional careers. The purpose of the page was to create a electronic resume of sorts that could be viewed by potential employers as a description of who you are and what you are all about. This is a screen shot of the page I created and gives more or less the basics of what is needed on this sort of professional page. If you would like another example you can always check out one of my class mates blogs here.
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This could be a very helpful tool in the future because more and more employers are researching their potential employees beforehand. Now most people try and keep a relatively clean online profile but from time to time, by their doing or by others, some content that they may not want a potential employer to see ends up online or on their Facebook profile. Now to stave off people seeing this they put privacy setting on their profile that allow only certain people to see their full profile. This doesn't really give employers much to work off.
With a Facebook page, I can make a sort of profile that is open to the public but that only shows the things and gives the description that I want others to see. This kind of page can give the employer something to go off of and give them a better idea of who I am.
As said in this Times article, social media is truly going to be the future of the job search, not only in the resume aspect but the job search as well. A page such as the one above will be vital to this future kind of job search.
Till next time.
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