Do you know Social Networking Can Get you a Job
Besides China and India Facebook has the largest population (registeredusers) in the world . Social networking has made deep roots with the people’s way of living . Social networking has become an important part of the life just like water and shelter. It has become a source of marketing , promotion and billions of dollars revolve around these social networking sites .
Besides a mode to connect with your friends and family and apart from providing you fun do you know that these social networking sites can also get you a job. This social networking which has taken the world by storm did not leave corporates as an option. Today most of the MNC’s use social media . They not only use these social media just to popularize and advertise their products they go one step ahead and recruit the people through the social networking sites .
A recent poll conducted by a leading surveying agency has stated that a staggering 75% of the surveyed hiring managers used LinkedIn and next comes Facebook and Twitter . When the mangers were asked why do they look for the people social networking sites they stated that “We are expecting professionalism of the person beyond the resume” . They look on every aspect right from the groups that we belong to , To the pages we have subscribes RSS feeds , Our presentation , Verbal and visual skills each and every aspect we do in Facebook or Twitter are taken into account!!
Now a question might arise in your mind ” How am I going to do this?” . The first step you have to take to make your profile looks professional is to make sure that the things we have posted , groups we have added are professional? . This can mean in many ways right from rewriting Bio in a professional way all these aspects might sound silly but these “personal professionalism matters and weights more than the qualities you have stated in your resume .Next thing what you should do is to make sure that you update these sites frequently this will give the company that watches you an impression that you are a dedicated and a hardworking guy . Added to this, this kind of frequent updation will bring your profile to a notable position by the search engines . This will give an additional option for Job hiring people to look into your profile and contact you. This might look bizarre but keep in mind that the world of internet is beyond your imagination and every day millions of people use it.
People now a days make updates to their social networking sites frequently and search engines like Google thinks that it is relevant and hence indexes all your relevant pages so when your employer searches for your name in Google there is a possibility that your photos taken when you are non – professionlistic also to be displayed along with your Facebook or LinkedIn accounts and it might give a bad impression about you to your employer and so every aspect has to be taken into account .
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