Thank You For Your Application: The Facebook Faux-pas That Could Foul Up Your Chances of Getting That Dream Job

Why didn’t you get that job?

Your interview was perfect. You researched the Company, answered all of those tricky questions and did everything you were supposed to do. You shook hands firmly (but didn't break anyone's fingers), smiled, nodded in all the right places and asked intelligent, well thought out questions that had nothing to do with how much holiday entitlement you would get.

You gave relevant, engaging examples of how your experience qualifies you for the job and you thought you were the perfect fit.

They even asked the golden question "when can you start?"

But when the letter came through the post this morning, it started "Thank you for your application..."

Welcome to the Internet age of recruitment.

Your “online brand” is now just as important as the sanitised version of ‘you’ that you present to potential employers on paper and employers WILL look at your online activity to find out more about the ‘real’ you.

Was there something on your Facebook Timeline that put the employer off?

This ebook will help you to look at some of the social media foul-ups that could prevent you from getting the job of your dreams, the privacy settings you should be using to make sure that what you post on Facebook doesn’t harm your reputation and some of the things you should be doing to present yourself as THE perfect candidate.