Hello, this is Stephanie again.
I have created a brand new facebook profile for class ALES204 and it is for business purpose! Have a look of my business profile, press here. I think a business profile somehow replaces a resume and it is better to read during a hiring process as an employer can know more about the person that he/she is going to hire. A resume is focused on quantity. It is basically about working experiences and education level and hobbies, but there is no way for you to explain how you feel about it. However for a business profile, it is focused on quality. You can actually express or include your feelings towards your working experiences like what did you learn in that period of time. You can also include something that is about yourself which you would like to tell your future employer. Moreover, an interview often holds around half an hour, thus there is not enough time for an employer to fully understand his/her future employee. If a business profile is used, he/she can even check it out by themselves at home.Furthermore, a business profile is viewed online, so that's mean all people from the world can see it through internet. People can show it to many different employers when finding a job at the same time instead of giving resumes to each of them, it is a good way to save paper and save time.
So for my business profile, I have used my grade 12 graduation picture because that is the most formal and the most recent professional picture that I have from my computer! Without any posing, I think I look professional here. Moreover, wearing a graduation gown and hat indicates my success in studies and I am stepping into a new life. However, I am going to change it to university graduation picture after I am graduated in year 2014 :P I have first included my working experiences in Dream Tea, Starbucks and Urban Planet respectively. I think it is necessary to put them on the first priority as my future employer will be interested in what I have done before, like predicting if I am able to handle a new job with those experiences gained from the past. I have typed my feelings and gain of experiences when working in those places, as well as contact information in case my future employer may want to contact them. I have also included my interests and favorites and some volunteer experiences, which I believe it helps people to understand me more about my personalities. Moreover, I have also included the languages that I know, which are Cantonese, Mandarin, English and a little bit of Korean. I think it is important to let future employers know as language is a bridge of communication, it may help when the company needs to communicate with some foreigners.
For my personal interest, as I am planning to be a nutritionist in the future and with help of the course ALES204, I have followed some people who are nutrition professionals in twitter and some of them even have their own websites. I do not know whether it counts as a business profile but it does help me to understand more about what a nutritionist is actually doing. On the other hand, nutrition is highly related to lifestyle, so eating disorder is a concerned problem as it is common to happen. I think knowing how to keep ourselves staying healthy is important, but helping others to achieve a healthier lifestyle is more meaningful! I have also visited one of my classmate's blog: Angela Komarnicki. I like the design of her blog and I am totally agree to one of her sentence: First impressions say a lot for people! That's why we are trying hard to make our business profile looks professional and convinces people. I believe it means a lot to future employers and it does affect how they think about me after they have read the profile.
It is so excited to create such a useful business profile, which helps me to prepare myself in future employment!
And lastly, here is a snapshot of my facebook business profile.
Thanks for reading!
Stephanie
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