Ten social media tips to find your dream job
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siliconindia | Thursday, 12 May 2011, 15:31 IST
2. Put your best Face(book) forward.
According to Jobvite.com's 2010 Social Recruiting Survey, 83 percent of employers plan to use social networks to recruit this year. Will you be someone they hire or someone they avoid? To find out about the 'real' side of potential employees, some employers are Googling them as well as checking out their Facebook and Twitter pages. Before you kick off your job search, make sure your Facebook page and other social media profiles are clean and professional.
"If you have any embarrassing or inappropriate material on your profile, it could be quite off-putting to your potential employer," Kuzmeski advises. Do yourself a favor and remove those materials. You're not in college anymore, so from now on when you're engaging in social media activity, think of yourself as a public figure who may have your every word scrutinized.
"And if you think that simply making your profiles private will solve the problem, beware," she warns. "A twenty-something job searcher recently told me about a new tactic that some employers are using. The interviewer asked the candidate to pull up his Facebook page - right there in the interview, leaving him no time to clean anything up! Yes, social media is a lot of fun, but make sure if you're looking for a job that your social media sites help, not hurt, your cause."
