In the most recent lab of my Ales 204 class we worked on putting together a Facebook page which can be used for career, and professional purposes. Although I have seen many business pages while being on my own Facebook profile I never thought of promoting myself as an individual in the same manner. However, advertising is advertising, and whether you are looking for new customers for your business or a job opportunity Facebook is a great way to get yourself out there because just about everyone now has a profile on the popular social media website. Filling out the information part of a Facebook page is a great way to organize your self promotion as well because it already has the titles and fields you would need to fill in, you just need to supply the information.
Facebook also has an advantage over Twitter when choosing to promote yourself because of the amount of space you have to communicate. Twitter only allows people the room of 140 characters per "tweet" and when trying to get to know someone this can seem pretty limited. Creating a page on Facebook gives you options for how little or how much you want to say and also the option to connect to others that you choose. By "liking" other pages on the social media site you can connect those that are viewing your page to others that you want to promote or just find enjoyable.
Another good use of Facebook would be to provide and display samples of your work. Giving future employers or people of interest a visual of what you have done is a great way to attract positive attention. Samples of work can also be accomplishments that you have attained. From the other end of things, employers can also use Facebook to keep up to date on present employees. Having a well constructed Facebook page is also becoming more important because employers are using social media to follow up on employees that they are considering to hire. In a career in Human Resources, which I am pursuing, Facebook will become an essential tool in recruitment and assessment.
Caption for Facebook profile picture:
http://www.cornell.edu/video/?bb=tags&tag=reimagining
Check out Human Ecology Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Human-ecology/105625712803631
Another ALES204 blog:
http://rosie-ales.blogspot.com/
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