Facebook for Job Search? Job Hunting

Facebook for Job Search?

I have been trying to find convincing reasons why you should use Facebook and how you should use Facebook for your job search. Ive been conducting research and also observed a presentation given by job seeking users on how to use Facebook.

What I took away from both of these experiences was, if you aren’t on Facebook already, it is just one more complex tool to learn and I would stick with learning the ins and outs of LinkedIn instead.

However, if you are already using Facebook, you might as well leverage your connections there. Here is the breakdown by age of users in the US, out of a total of 94,748,820 users. Now thats a network!

From SocialMediaToday

Here are 6 Ways to Use Facebook for Job Search

Let your friends know you are looking for work by sharing information in your status update
Ask if any of your friends know someone within your target companies
Find and “Like” pages of employers you are interested in working for so you can see what they are up to
Investigate apps such as BranchOut which may make it easier for you to find connections to employers
Build your personal brand by writing and sharing topics related to your expertise
If you dont know about Facebooks Friend lists, you shouldit helps with privacy settings.

I am not convinced that Facebook is the best tool for job search. I am convinced you should be letting everyone in your network know you are seeking a new job, so I wouldn’t rule it out, but I wouldn’t obsess over it either!

Heather Huhman wrote a post on On Careers. Heather also sites a post by Lindsay Olson . These two sources point out many of the same things and add some new ones as well (privacy issues!). This post was previously been published.

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