Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Gearing up for Job Hunting Season

This article makes some good points about "cleaning-up" your Facebook for professional job searching and how to look prepared using Twitter.  Peterson, the authur is young and realistic.  He highlights a great point about looking up the company's social media before interviews, etc. to get a feel for who they are as a company.  I feel like I've seen a lot of articles like this but this article is straight forward and leaves me feeling less overwhelmed than most.  Hope you find it as useful as I do.

http://socialmediatoday.com/jigsawsocial/401685/social-media-profile-checklist-new-job

2 comments:

Daniel Mochon said...

Yes, this is something I mentioned in the last class. You should also keep in mind that just because it is private, it doesn't mean potential employers can't see it. Students who graduated a couple of years ago and are your Facebook 'friends' might now be working at the companies you are looking to work for.

Q said...

True. Also - friends can still see a lot of information. When making it private, you have to remember that may exclude your friends as well.