Career QT Newsletter, Social Networking Sites

Personal Internet Presence (.pdf)

Social Networking PP Revised (.ppt)

 

Did you know?

 

Launched just three years ago, Facebook has become the "it" company of the tech world with a user base that has ballooned to 41 million. Since September 11, 2006, when Facebook eliminated its edu email address requirement, Facebook access became available to users with any email address. Consequently, employers, corporate recruiters, and admission officials at colleges and graduate schools are checking candidates via Yahoo and Google searches as well as social networking sites like Facebook. According New York University's career center director, employers are looking at Facebook profiles and asking ... is there something about their lifestyle that we might find questionable or that we might find goes against the core values of our corporation. Many of today's students have posted personal information, provocative comments and risqué pictures, in what some mistakenly believe is relative privacy. As career center programs work to prepare students to find the “right” jobs, they should provide students with information about how employers are using Internet information, as well as tools students can use to review and improve their Internet presence.

 

Do this:

 

• Review this Career Development Bulletin from Gannon University ... especially pages 3 and 4.
  
• View the attached PowerPoint Presentation from a Career Success Seminar from University of Texas at Tyler for info and consequences of questionable Facebook profiles.
  
• Print and evaluate how you would use the attached Internet Self-Audit based on a form originally created by Purdue University Center for Career Opportunities.

 

Want More? Look at the Student Benchmarking Study from the University of Tennessee to learn more about what students want and need from their career centers. For more on how to help students develop more professional and polished profiles, look at the PowerPoint and “Who Am I” activity in the November 6th edition of the FCS FLASH.

 

Quick Quote: Facebook is more like LinkedIn than MySpace and it is “on the radar” of your employers.