Facebook: A New Way to Impress Your Employer

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Nowadays, pretty much everyone has Facebook.  Even our parents are catching on.  Therefore, searching the gargantuan social network is a great way to find out about someone.  Employers will see this as a useful tool in the hiring process; a simple Facebook search may be enough to help them decide who to hire (or even fire). 

Because of this possibility, we are often advised to remove inappropriate Facebook content that can deter employers.  Deleting profane status updates or drunk photos will ensure that we do not expose our more crummy side to someone we are trying to impress.  "Censoring" our Facebook profiles is a clever move, but we can step it up a notch and take full advantage of Facebook!  If employers will likely search for us, why not advertise our skills to them?  Creating a resume-inspired Facebook page will really set us apart from other candidates.  According to Job Search Techniques, a social media resume can "turn the tables"; instead of we trying to "push" our traditional resume towards limited opportunities, we can now "pull" employers towards us through our broadcast.  This can really open up multitudes of job opportunities.

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In our generation, most people are more willing to communicate with each other over the web instead of in person.  In the near future, this trend will likely expand towards the area of job search (Claudio Nader, for example, got hired because of his Facebook CV).  While it is not extremely common just yet, social media is beginning to enter into the professional world, and I think social media resumes will only become more popular in the decades to come.

Below is my professional Facebook page:
If you would like to see another example, be sure to check out my friend Danielle's Facebook resume!

Le, B. (2012). Professional Facebook Page [Screenshot]. Retrieved from http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brenda-Le/287014804695395