Facebook Interview With Barb Safani

Facebook Interview With Barb Safani by Randi Bussin | Dec eight, 2011 | LinkedIn & Social Media | zero feedback With social networking on the rise, I even have been receiving many questions from shoppers concerning the importance of Facebook for job search and different profession associated activities. For this post, I decided to interview my colleague, Barb Safani in New York, who's admittedly one of the energetic profession coaches on Facebook and who additionally teaches many lessons on social networking. Randi: What is the distinction between Facebook and LinkedIn? Barb: Facebook started out as a social networking website restricted to college students. LinkedIn began as a enterprise networking web site for professionals. Several years ago, Facebook grew to become out there to everyone and its popularity soared. In current years, it has shifted from being “only for youngsters” to a wealthy resource for networking for business and private reasons. In the previous yr alone, se veral third celebration applications have been added to the Facebook platform which are conducive to enterprise networking and Facebook at present boasts greater than 7 times the number of customers as LinkedIn. Randi: Do I must be on Facebook when in search of a job? Barb: I extremely suggest incorporating Facebook into your job search technique. It has robust search options for sourcing folks from varied companies and it has turn into fairly commonplace for employers to have a Facebook page for constructing engagement with current and potential clients in addition to staff. Randi: If so, how do I do this? Barb: Here are three straightforward ideas: Randi: What type of photographs are applicable for Facebook? Barb: Show pictures that you would not be concerned with an employer seeing. These don't all should be enterprise photographs but ought to be ones that characterize you in the way in which you would like to be perceived by employers. Randi: Can prospective employers see everyt hing I submit on Facebook? Barb: Not essentially. You can manipulate your privateness settings to manage who sees what. Randi: Is there a way to control what prospective employers will see? Barb: Yes. You can change your privateness features so solely associates see your posts, create good friend lists and manage which friends see which posts, or you can make choices on who sees what for each item you publish. Barb Safani of Career Solvers / Email Address * First Name * Example: Yes, I wish to obtain emails from Aspire for Success. (You can unsubscribe anytime)