How to use social networks for job search?

Social Internet network at the peak of popularity. Classmates, My Circle, My World, VKontakte - probably on one or more of these resources you already have a profile. Your friends and acquaintances, sympathetic strangers and potential employers regularly review your profile. And be sure to closely and looking at all their photo! Do I have the impression it makes on them? Let's face it! Social networks are, first, to find the necessary and interesting people you know and maintain contact with them. The main difference between the other means of Internet communication and social networks in that the main purpose here is to continue communication in real life, and not to communicate on the Internet. Therefore, the information here is taken to make itself true, placing the actual data itself, rather than using fictitious nicknames. Of course, you can every week, partying in the company of loved forumchan, and with his former group-mates talk exclusively on the Internet. But with the advent of social networking Internet ceased to be anonymous. Agree, you may never know what lies under the nickname Braveheart third graders Pasha, King Cobra - in fact your friend Ira and Pten4ik - this is the highest brunette from the neighboring department with whom you talked at the last corporative. Now with the help of social networking, you can easily find your best friends from childhood, which in the fifth grade moved to another city, or to trace the path of his work supervisor. But the information about your friends (and strangers) can find as easily! Therefore, if you decide to register in one of the social networks, Treat close to filling your profile. This is especially important if you plan on using these resources to find a new job or to establish important business ties to his current assignment. Do not forget that social networks have different directions. For example, the site Odnoklassniki, as the name implies, is focused on the search for former classmates, this resource is popular among people from 25 to 55 years. With site vkontakte.ru you can keep in touch with any friends, but it is used mainly by students, its main visitors - young people from 18 to 25 years. Resource moikrug.ru - the first Russian Internet network for professional contacts, the exact clone of the popular western site LinkedIn. The emphasis here is on business communication and professional interests. On this site you can find a suitable job (they are here about 30 thousand), or new employees, customers, partners. There are many other social networks, created for different needs. It remains to decide what goals you want to communicate on the Internet, and choose suitable resources. Note that even if you do not plan to use social networks for work, many employers have recently checked on the Internet information on their current and future employees. But HR managers and headhunters of staff and recruitment agencies in pursuit of the right personnel have long used information from various online communities. Any form, where you lay out real information about themselves under his real name, should leave the best impression on you! (A light-hearted photo in a corset and stockings or a record of your last party at a strip bar is better placed on other resources under the nickname). By the way, the Internet guru predicted that the next step of development of social networks and the Internet will become the active development is professional communities. Therefore, for modern people communicate through online social networks - one of the tools build a career. Tens of thousands of people a day can not read your online profile on a daily basis. Photography in the profile plays the same role as the appearance during the first acquaintance with the real communication - for it creates the first impression of you. And the first impression, as we know, the most stable. For the profile is best to choose a photograph or portrait photograph just below the waist (photo in full growth, is likely to be too small). You can choose an appropriate image from the archive, or make a new one. If you decide to arrange a special photo session, please note that for the profile-photo perfect plain clothes and natural muted makeup (for women). Look straight in the frame, take a relaxed, natural posture, smile or make a friendly face - and the picture will be popular! A really good pictures found in the profiles is not so often. But a bad camera angle, smudged, or just a strange picture can create the wrong impression about the man.