Week 5 EOC: Social Networks and Job Hunting

It seems that social media has become the way of communications all around the world.  Companies have figured out how to recruit ambassadors offering them products and misc. items to promote their products and or services.  The ambassadors, then uses the product and or services in their everyday living environment, sharing the information with family and friends.  People in today’s society like to brag or talk about what goes on in their everyday life.  The general public seems to be wrapped up in social media as to what everyone in the world has going on in their lives.  Now they have Instagram, apps where you can follow celebrities, family and friends.  We post pictures of what we are doing or bragging what cool products we are using.  This leads to comments and even conversations posted where people are asking questions or associates that have the same interests in common that you might not even know about.  From there individuals have made contacts with their family and friends.  Knowing some or most of them follow some type of social media. In today’s society we are always turning to the Internet to research information, find jobs or just to stay up to date with the latest news going on in the world with followers of their media.  We tend to blog comments whether good or bad to pass onto others about what is happening in our lives.  Which has turned into a huge networking system for everyone.  Facebook has the brilliance of using their own web base users” to find new employees, threatening traditional job boards and competing with other web base companies. “ (Recruiters Troll Facebook for Candidates They Like).  It appears that 50% of people seeking jobs are more likely to search on Facebook then any other social media groups.