The world is changing. It is now common for anyone you are hoping to do business with to search for you online. If you are not careful this means they could see all the tweets, you tube videos, and Facebook comments and updates that don`t exactly show your best side. So lock down your information! At least the side of you that you don`t want future employers to know about.
The beauty of the web is you can create what they will see when they go online. This is what I recently did with my new Facebook profile. I create it as an online resume as a way of putting my best foot forward when I get searched.
Although my profile still needs some fine tuning and jazzing up. Getting to this starter point was revelatory painless. I simply filled in the information that face book normally asked for but with the question in mind, "Will this help my future employer want to hire me?"
My hope is that over time I will be able to build a well rounded profile that allows professionals to quickly get a great picture of who I am. The hardest part will be maintaining the professionalism while still being me. Fortunately I found a great article to help me with it. My class mates like Kylie also provide great examples of how to establish a great professional profile on Facebook.
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