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Social Media Profiles and Job Seeking

   

Added on  2020-02-24

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Running head: SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES AND JOB SEEKINGSocial media profiles are a critical component of job-seeking in 2017Name of the StudentStudent IDName of UniversityAuthor Note

2SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILE AND JOB SEEKINGSocial media has become one of the most important devices to build a strong connectionwith the public in every sphere of life. Constructive usage of social media does not only provideample opportunity to an individual to get in touch with the greater number of people but alsofacilitates them with an expressive platform. The most important factor for the individuals toutilize broader platform of social media has been proper understanding of the key componentsand elements within it (Roth et al.,2016) . In the content marketing sectors, social media hasbeen playing an important role to ensure future career of the candidates as many of thecompanies are found to approach to the write-ups published in different social media. Socialmedia has not only created a plinth to connect people of similar fields, but has also provided anopportunity to the employers to easily look in to the profiles of their choice. According to Iddekinge, Lanivich, Roth & Junco, 2016), the recruiters often findFacebook an important platform identifying two important aspects in a positive manner. Theusage of social media has become quite transparent and farer as the recruiters can effectivelyfollow the chronicling details of the applicants with the effective understanding of the process(Van Iddekinge et al, 2016). The scholars have also agreed to the fact that it minimizes theattrition level of the employees. However, it can be contradicted that Facebook rating can hardlyprovide any firm idea pertaining to the firm working profile of an applicant for the job (DeCamp,Koenig & Chisolm 2013). Virtual world does not give a proper and succinct idea pertaining tothe capacity of the application of the candidates of their ideologies and philosophies. Thebehavioral pattern in this case can be negated since this particular criteria does not imply the actof real life implementation. According to Philip,Chad & Iddekinge, social media has been saturating our society inevery single aspect. According to the authors it dilutes the quality of employers’ perception to

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